Abstract. We perform a Why-Because Analysis (WBA) starting from the information in the Executive Summary of the U.S. DoD Aircraft Accident Investigation Board report on the shootdown of two U.S. Army Black Hawk transport helicopters by U.S.A.F. F-15 fighter aircraft over Northern Iraq on 14 April 1994, during Operation Provide Comfort. We compare with the effort of Snook to perform a similar an...

In this paper, we report the results of a detailed examination of the causes of 700 fatal aviation accidents that occurred worldwide between 1990 and 2006 in commercial passenger service. We look at both scheduled and nonscheduled and both domestic and international service. We also categorize the accident aircraft as large jets, regional and medium jets, small jets, turboprops, and piston powe...

1 The term stakeholders refers to all of the different groups who are affected by an accident in that domain and by changes to operations, regulations, equipment, policies, etc. as a result of reactions to that accident. For example, an accident in aviation affects the public as consumers of the service, the FAA as regulators of the industry, pilots as practitioners, air traffic controllers as ...

The reasons that icing of aircraft leads to an accident are diverse. Ensuring the aircraft to take off clearly is the important factor of giving support to flying safety. Human factor is one of the important factors which have caused the accidents. In this paper, because of the complexity and uncertainty of human factors, we introduce Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) to create weight model of...

Abstracting useful information from a big data has always been a challenging task. Data mining is a powerful technology with great potential to extract knowledge based information from such data. Prediction can be done with past and related records in different fields. Risk and safety have always been an important consideration in the field of aircraft. Prediction of accident in aircraft will s...

The integration of a human performance model (Air Man-machine Integration Design and Analysis System, Air MIDAS) and an accident risk assessment methodology (Traffic Organization and Perturbation AnalyZer, TOPAZ) was investigated in order to learn about the similarities and differences of their models, to demonstrate the feasibility of such integration, and the integration impact on accident ri...

The Integrated Safety Assessment Model (ISAM) is being developed by the FAA to provide a baseline risk assessment for the National Airspace System. The model consists of a set of event trees, each describing a set of possible event sequences occurring following an initiating event, such as an engine failure. Probabilities associated with the initiating events and end events of the trees are typ...

Human error has been implicated in almost 70-80% of civil and military aviation accidents. It appears that attempts to understand human factors in aircraft accidents and apply remedial strategies have been made in isolation in addressing a particular link in the whole process of aircraft accident prevention. The suggested holistic approach to minimize aircraft accidents, aims to provide a compo...