Emmy Award-winning journalist Kris Van Cleave is the senior transportation correspondent for CBS News based in Phoenix, Arizona, where he also serves as a national correspondent reporting for all CBS ...
Pilots are susceptible to various visual illusions and spatial disorientation, even in visual meteorological conditions, due to conflicting sensory input between vision, inner ear, and proprioception.
When landing on the surface of the Moon, astronauts can become spatially disoriented, which is when they lose sense of their orientation – they might not be able to tell which way is up. This ...
The Federal Aviation Administration says pilot disorientation causes 5% to 10% of all general aviation accidents, and there could be new technology to help make flying safer. "Spatial disorientation ...
March 23 (UPI) --The National Transportation Safety Board determined that a pilot involved in a 2021 plane crash that killed seven people was probably disoriented at the time of the incident. The ...
Vivekanand Pandey Vimal, GSAS PhD’17, is a research scientist at Brandeis’ Ashton Graybiel Spatial Orientation Lab. This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license.
An airplane crash in which two Central Kentucky men died probably happened because the pilot became disoriented after flying into bad weather, according to a federal report. Investigators also found a ...
CAMBRIA COUNTY, Pa (WJAC) — Nearly two years after a plane crash claimed the lives of two Cambria County men, federal officials say they have concluded their investigation into what caused the deadly ...