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=== In transportation accidents ===
* According to the [[National Transportation Safety Board|NTSB]], one of the factors contributing to [[Asiana Airlines Flight 214]] crash was ''"the complexities of the autothrottle and autopilot flight director systems … which increased the likelihood of mode error".''<ref>https://www.ntsb.gov/news/events/2014/asiana214/abstract.html</ref><ref>[http://blog.martindoms.com/2011/01/24/poor-ui-design-can-kill/ Poor UI design can kill]</ref>▼
* Mode confusion was part of the events that led to the loss of [[Air France Flight 447]] in 2009, and the loss of life of 228 people. The pilots reacted to a loss of altitude by pulling on the stick, which would have been an appropriate reaction with the autopilot fully enabled, which would then have put the aircraft in a climbing configuration. However, the airplane's systems had entered a mode of lesser automation ("direct law" in Airbus terms) due to a blocked airspeed sensor, allowing the pilots to put the plane in a nose-high stall configuration, from which they did not recover.<ref>[https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/11/uss-mccain-collision-ultimately-caused-by-ui-confusion/] BEA final report on the loss of Air France 447</ref>
▲* According to the [[National Transportation Safety Board|NTSB]], one of the factors contributing to the 2013 [[Asiana Airlines Flight 214]] crash was ''"the complexities of the autothrottle and autopilot flight director systems … which increased the likelihood of mode error".''<ref>https://www.ntsb.gov/news/events/2014/asiana214/abstract.html</ref><ref>[http://blog.martindoms.com/2011/01/24/poor-ui-design-can-kill/ Poor UI design can kill]</ref>
* On January 17, 2015, the offshore supply vessel "Red7 Alliance" collided with a lock gate of the Kiel Canal in Germany, damaging it severely. An investigation concluded that the levers controlling the ship's [[Azimuth thruster]]s were not used in a way appropriate to the mode they were set to, resulting in the ship accelerating instead of coming to a stop in the lock.<ref>[https://www.bsu-bund.de/SharedDocs/pdf/DE/Unfallberichte/2016/Untersuchungsbericht_16_15.pdf?__blob=publicationFile&v=5] M/V Red7 Alliance investigation report (German)</ref>
* On August 21, 2017, the US Navy destroyer [[USS John S. McCain (DDG-56)|USS John S. McCain]] [[USS John S. McCain and Alnic MC collision|collided]] with a commercial tanker in the Strait of Malacca, resulting in the loss of life of ten crew members. An investigation conducted by the US military concluded that immediately prior to the collision, helm and propulsion controls had been redistributed between bridge stations, and the bridge crew was not fully aware of that redistribution.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/11/uss-mccain-collision-ultimately-caused-by-ui-confusion/ | title=USS McCain collision ultimately caused by UI confusion| year=2017}}</ref>
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