title: [Visual illusions and moving horizon].
abstract: Results of psychological "additional investigation" of the crash of Boeing-737, "Aeroflot-Nord" on 14.09.2008 near Perm are presented. 37 pilots from the one of the leading airline companies sensed the attitude and rolling out the aircraft to the forward flight under the moving horizon with straight display of bank and tangage (view from the aircraft to the ground) in model conditions. 29 pilots (78.4%) made a mistake at determining the roll direction and tangage, they made a mistake at determining the roll direction 61 times (16.4%) and 44 times at determining the tangage direction, in other words they confused left and right bank and also nose-up and nose-down. Visual illusions of mobility of space and handling of ground (instead of aircraft) during the flight were revealed in pilots. These illusions may be the important cause of the following crashes. The necessity of "back" faultless display of bank in all aircrafts of civil aviation and development of computer complex for training of visual spatial orientation is proved.
authors.forename: I M
authors.initials: IM
authors.lastname: Zhdan'ko
authors.forename: A O
authors.initials: AO
authors.lastname: Chulaevskiĭ
authors.forename: P A
authors.initials: PA
authors.lastname: Kovalenko
mesh_terms: D000060:Accidents, Aviation; D000337:Aerospace Medicine / Q000379:methods*; D001359:Aviation; D003198:Computer Simulation; D006801:Humans; D007088:Illusions / Q000523:psychology*; D008297:Male; D009949:Orientation