Editing Checklist (section)

====Aviation and space flight safety====
Checklists have long been a feature of [[aviation safety]] to ensure that critical items are not overlooked.<ref name="Higgins and Boorman 2016" /> The best known example is the cockpit [[preflight checklist]], which is intended to ensure that the crew correctly configures the aircraft for flight on every flight. A normal checklist is used before critical flight segments, such as takeoff, approach and landing, which are the phases in which the highest incidence of accidents occur due to procedural error. Checklists are also used for troubleshooting, to identify and where practicable, correct malfunctions. They cannot substitute for pilot skill and learned and practiced immediate response to critical malfunctions, but are useful for mitigation attempts when time allows.<ref name="Degani and Wiener 1990" />