Aviation accidents

NTSB. Aviation accident report Runway overrun during landing, American Airlines Flight 1420, McDonnell Douglas MD-82, N215AA, Little Rock, Arkansas, June 1, 1999. Report No. NTSB/AAR-01-02. Washington, DC National Transportation Safety Board, 2002. 

Chaturvedi AK, Cardona PS, Soper JW, Canfield DV. Distribution and optical purity of methamphetamine found in toxic concentration in a civil aviation accident pilot fatality. J Forensic Sci 2004 49 (4) 832-6. 

Wiegmann, D. A., Shappell, S. A. (2003). A human error approach to aviation accidents analysis The human factors analysis and classification system. Aldershot, UK Ashgate. 

Even if a technical failure precedes the human action, the tendency is to put the blame on an inadequate response to the failure by an operator. Perrow claims that even in the best of industries, there is rampant attribution of accidents to operator error, to the neglect of errors by designers or managers [155], He dtes a U.S. Air Force study of aviation accidents demonstrating that the designation of human error (pilot error in this case) is a convenient classification for mishaps whose real cause is uncertain, complex, or embarrassing to the organization. 

Orisanu, J., J. Martin, and J. Davison. 2007. Cognitive and contextual factors in aviation accidents Decision errors. In Applications of Naturalistic Decision Making, ed. E. Salas and G. Klein, 209-225. Mahwah, NJ Lawrence Erlbaum Associates... 

Safety in other domains is assessed by the incidence of accidents and injuries aviation accidents, road accidents, lost time injuries at work and other types of mishap are counted and tabulated by various means. Defining these accidents is... 

Wiegmann, D.A. Shappell, S.A. 2001. Applying the human factor analysis and classification system to the analysis of commercial aviation accident data. Paper presented at the 11th International Symposium on Aviation Psychology. 

Most people are happy to travel by air. In fact in the Western World, scheduled commercial air travel is one of the safest means of transport—safer than trains and certainly safer than motor vehicles. This is not to say that car or aviation accidents are acceptable. We tolerate the risks because of the benefits conferred. 

All U.S. civil aviation accidents and certain public-use aircraft accidents Selected highway accidents... 

Accident reports for the period 1993 through 2007 from the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) database were collected from their online database. The data were extracted from . The NTSB database contains information about all aviation accidents for which a summary format is issued. All accidents are reported and there is no significant reporting bias compared to the voluntary submitted ASRS reports. 

Wiegmatm, D.A. and Shappell, S.A. (2003). A Human Error Approach to Aviation Accident Analysis The Human Eactors Analysis and Classification System. Burlington, VT Ashgate. 

Can simply correctingthe deficiencies found through incident investigation reduce error This chapter will apply ICAM to review an aviation accident that occurred to determine whether the precursors to the accident could have been identified. 

The reports reviewed used consistent measures of exposure. Epidemiologieal studies of aviation accidents typically incorporate some measure of exposure (Li, 1994), such as flight hours documented during an investigation or self-reported flying hours. It is important to have a measure of exposure to interpret the relative risks associated with particular activities. In the reports on GA accident data reviewed during this project, the common measure of exposure was the total number of hours flown by GA per 100,000 hours. 

Preliminary Analysis of Fatal General Aviation Accidents in Australia. 

Wiegmann, D. and Shappell, S. (2001), Human Error Analysis of Commercial Aviation Accidents Application of the Human Factors Analysis and Classification System (HFACS) Aviation Space and Environmental Medicine, 72, 1006-1016. 

Although this book is specifically about hazardous industries, and not about transportation, I will nevertheless include a number of case smdies relating to aviation accidents. Although aviation safety is explicitly outside the scope of this book, there are many important lessons for the safety of hazardous installations that can be learned from aviation accidents, for various reasons. 

First, aviation accidents are extremely well documented, and cockpit voice and data recorders mean we usually know exactly what happened immediately prior... 

Mishaps due to coffin comer have largely been confined to experimental aircraft nnder test conditions, althongh some civil aviation accidents did occur in early jet travel, some fatal. Notable incidents with successful recovery include a high-altitude stall of a Pan American Boeing 707 while cruising over the Atlantic at 35,000 feet in Febmary 1959. Happily, the pilot was able to recover control, but by that lime the aircraft was at 6000 feet. 

One of the worst civil aviation accidents of all time, and one of the most bizarre, happened at Riyadh airport on August 19,1980, when Saudi Airlines (or Saudia ) Flight 163, a Lockheed Tristar, suffered an onboard fire. All 301 passengers and crew died of smoke inhalation while the plane was stationary on the runway (Fig. 11.2). There has been a lot written about this accident, much speculation, and some urban myths, and after more than three decades it is perhaps even less clear exactly what happened, although some new evidence has recently been reported. 

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