Introduction
This is a story of a life-threatening situation that involved the redesigning of a fighter plane during the world war II. The story relates to the rental car due to the reason of how hard it is for someone to control a rental car controls due to the unfamiliarity of the cars control board hence the naming of the incident. The incident involved the pilot Dan Bowman, who found himself in a life-threatening situation when an air raid by the Japanese planes there were fighter planes on the ground that could have been easy targets for the Japanese hence had to be taken off the ground. Bowman found himself in the new P-47 which had been brought in a few days ago. Inside the cockpit, he found himself unfamiliar with all the controls and realized he could not take the plane off the ground (Casey, 99). This was not due to his incompetence, but due to the unfamiliar nature of the new cockpit of the plane.
When this situation is analyzed using the FAA dirty dozen list a number of mistakes are realizing that could have been corrected and such situations could have been avoided. The first mistake was the lack of knowledge; training was a factor which was not considered, in such a situation we see the plane had arrived a few days before hence a training could have been offered to the pilots so as to make the aware of how to handle the plane. Another realizable mistake was communication; the pilots could have asked for the training the minute the new plane came in or maybe there was a failure of communication where they were not updated on the presence of the new plane hence in this case if these were to be observed the situation would have been avoided.
Another mistake probably was the norms, the expected or the normality of how things were hence failure to update the changes in the norms. The performance of norms being totally good may have resulted in the failure of updating the pilot on the new changes and this almost caused the life of the pilot. Finally, the realizable mistake that happened in the situation was pressure. The pilot was under a lot of pressure from the attacking Japanese hence, could have found it so hard adapting to the new system of the plane which resulted in the situation.
A few recommendations for such a situation is on the need for communication so as to avoid such a situation again let the personnel's on the field get continuous updates on any improvement or changes in the field. Also, a change of the normality of how functions within a system operates in our case the plane there should be documentation of what has changed and how to handle these changes. The Rental Car situation clearly illustrates what few human mistakes can result in.
Work Cited
Casey, Steven Michael. Set phasers on stun: And other true tales of design, technology, and human error. Aegean, 1993.
