Did brain phenomenon contribute to Air Canada pilot´s close-call at SFO?
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SAN FRANCISCO — Could the same brain phenomenon identified as contributing to today’s polarizing political climate have played a role in an Air Canada flight crew coming within seconds of landing on a row of jets awaiting takeoff at SFO? Absolutely, experts say. Edie Fischer, a retired research psychologist, holds a copy of a research paper, which shows her performing an experiment, at her home in Gilroy on Wednesday. Fisher’s experiment in 1980 for NASA had pilots land on a simulator. During one landing she secretly placed an airplane in the middle of the runway. During one phase of experiment 2 of 8 pilots didn’t see the plane. (Josie Lepe/Bay Area News Group) The...