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GENERAL

The Claim

The National Transportation Safety Board report concluded that organizational factors, including resource management, organizational climate, and organizational processes, contributed to the crash of UPS Airlines Flight 1354 on August 14, 2013.

The Short Version

The NTSB's official probable cause and contributing factors for UPS Flight 1354 address only crew performance, fatigue, and configuration errors — none are characterized as organizational factors, resource management, organizational climate, or organizational processes. While the report's narrative discusses dispatcher coordination issues, these were never formally designated as contributing factors. The organizational-factors framing originates from independent external analyses, not from the NTSB report itself. The claim misattributes conclusions to the NTSB that the agency did not make.

Caveats

  • The NTSB's formal 'contributing factors' section lists only crew-performance, fatigue, and configuration-related issues — no organizational factors are named.
  • The organizational-factors framing (resource management, organizational climate, organizational processes) comes from independent analyses such as MIT's CAST study, not from the NTSB report.
  • Narrative discussion of dispatcher coordination in the report body does not constitute a formal NTSB conclusion that organizational factors contributed to the crash.

The Receipts

  1. DCA13MA133 Final Report - Accident Data - NTSB

    NTSB

  2. DCA13MA133.aspx - NTSB

    NTSB

  3. Accident Report - NTSB/AAR-14/02 PB2014-107898

    NTSB

  4. A-14-087 - Accident Data - NTSB

    NTSB

  5. Survival Factors Exhibit 6-A Factual Report of Group Chairman

    NTSB

  6. NTSB video companion to UPS 1354 accident report

    YouTube - NTSB

  7. UPS Flight 1354 CFIT Accident - Nancy Leveson

    MIT

  8. Increasing Learning from Accidents A Systems Approach illustrated by the UPS Flight 1354 CFIT Accident

    Airline Safety Blog

  9. NTSB Report on UPS Flight 1354 Crash

    Scribd

  10. CFI Brief: UPS Flight 1354 Crash, Lessons Learned - Learn to Fly Blog

    Learn to Fly Blog

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National Transportation Safety BoardUPS Airlines Flight 1354

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