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Flight Attendant Fatigue: A Quantitative Review of Flight Attendant Comments
Avers, Katrina; Nei, Darin; King, S. Janine; et al. U.S. Federal Aviation Administration Civil Aerospace Medical Institute (CAMI). Report no. DOT/FAA/AM-11/16. 23 pp. October 2011. Available on the Internet at www.faa.gov/library/reports/medical/oamtechreports/2010s/media/201116.pdf.
Fatigue has emerged as an important safety issue among airplane crews, including cabin crewmembers, who are the “last line of defense” in some accident scenarios.
In 2005, at the direction of the U.S. Congress, CAMI partnered with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Ames Research Center’s Fatigue Countermeasures Group to review research literature and examine typical flight attendant schedu…
