Scenario fulfilment

I've learnt a lot from watching programmes about air crash investigation. Bea Flight 548 stuck in my mind for a number of reasons;

•  it occurred near Staines,
•  it involved a stall (too much nose up)
•  there were lots of human factors at play (probably including pilot illness)

Wikipedia article
You tube clip of programme

Another crash worth understanding is the Mount Erebus disaster, a New Zealand plan crashing into Mount Erebus in Antarctica.

• More to it than meets the eye
• PTSD

Yet another is this incident, not really a crash, but a direct hit.

Possibly a result of "a simultaneous psychological condition (...), called 'scenario fulfilment', which is said to occur when persons are under pressure. In such a situation, the men will carry out a training scenario, believing it to be reality while ignoring sensory information that contradicts the scenario. In the case of this incident, the scenario was an attack by a lone military aircraft."

I can see this occurring during simulated scenario training in emergency medicine whereby candidates carry out a training scenario believing the training scenario to be that of a certain condition, only for the trainer to be running a scenario of an entirely different condition , or reality.

And in actual practice.