The paper investigates the ability to learn from an aircraft accident as the opportunities for learning diminish with the decline in the accident rate. A safety compromising case is studied as the processes of aircraft accident intervention and recovery can degrade the ability of an aircraft accident investigation process to enhance aviation safety by revealing accident causation. In the case s...

Identifying patterns of factors associated with aircraft accidents is of high interest to the aviation safety community. However, accident data is not large enough to allow a significant discovery of repeating patterns of the factors. We applied the STUCCO algorithm to analyze aircraft accident data in contrast to the aircraft incident data in major aviation safety databases and identified fact...

Air transportation systems are designed to ensure that aircraft accidents are rare events. To minimize these accidents, factors causing or contributing to accidents must be understood and prevented. Previous research has studied accident data to determine these factors. The low rate of accidents however, makes it difficult to discover repeating patterns of these factors. In this research we emp...

This project proposes an accident cost estimation model in the aviation industry in Nigeria. The model takes into consideration the probability of accidents and the cost of the potential consequences. Potential consequences of accidents are classified as human severity, property damage, and economic implications. The three classes of accidents identified in this study were fatal, serious, and m...

General Aviation (GA) accident statistics indicate that visual flight rules (VFR) flight into instrument meteorological conditions (IMC) is a major safety hazard within general aviation. Little research has been conducted to identify the factors that influence VFR pilots’ decisions to risk flying into deteriorating weather. As accident reports provide a naturalistic source of such information, ...

This investigation has been carried out under a contract awarded by the Netherlands Directorate-General of Civil Aviation (RLD), contract number LI/99.121/2. Summary Previous research has suggested that cargo operators suffer a disproportionally high number of accidents. The degree of unsafety could however not properly be quantified due to lack of data. The objective of the underlying study wa...

The author describes a non-hypnotic, non-pharmacologic method employed in the recovery of memories blocked by amnesia following an aircraft accident. A detailed account of the method used during the investigation of two mishaps is provided. Memories were fully recovered. In addition, a description of the use of this technique in enhancing the recall of a witness to a fatal aircraft accident is ...

This paper presents the development of an Aircraft Performance Risk Assessment Model (APRAM). The model consists of a set of software tools that processes aircraft data available from Digital Flight Data Recorders (DFDRs) and Quick Access Recorders (QARs) to identify precursor events and compute incident and accident risks. The feasibility version of the generic risk assessment model is limited...

It is of great significance to identify and clarify the circumstances and causes of any aircraft accident which will help avoid similar accidents in the future. Besides attribution of various aircraft accidents to avionic causes, bad weather is another prime cause for accidents of many aircraft and helicopters in India. But hardly any study is available in this regard in India using their longp...