The objective of the study was to compare the results of aviation accident analyses performed by the Center for Investigation and Prevention of Aviation Accidents (CENIPA) with the method Human Factors Analysis and Classification System (HFACS). The final reports of thirty-six general aviation accidents occurring between 2000 and 2005 in the State of São Paulo, Southeastern Brazil were analyzed...

Aircraft-assisted pilot suicide is a rare but serious phenomenon. The aim of this study was to evaluate changes in pilot aircraft-assisted suicide risks, i.e., a copycat effect, in the U.S. and Germany after the Germanwings 2015 incident in the French Alps. Aircraft-assisted pilot suicides were searched in the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) accident investigation database and ...

Safety is of paramount importance in all transportation systems, but especially in civil aviation. Therefore, in civil aviation, a lot of developments focus on the improvement of safety levels and reducing the risks that critical failures occur. When one analyses recent aircraft accident statistics (Civil Aviation Safety Data 1993-2007 (2008); Smaili et al. (2006)), there are two major categori...

An aircraft landed safely is the result of a huge organizational effort required to cope with a complex system made up of humans, technology and the environment. The aviation safety record has improved dramatically over the years to reach an unprecedented low in terms of accidents per million take-offs, without ever achieving the “zero accident” target. The introduction of automation on board a...

Problems that potential very light jet (VLJ) pilots of the future are having in the aircraft they currently fly, as evidenced in incident and accident reports, were analyzed. Significant problems identified include poor crew/single pilot resource management, low currency, inadequate preflight planning, avionics use difficulties, and cognitive performance issues, among others. Implications for t...

Transport. Increasingly over the last few years, investigations have also been undertaken for insurance loss adjusters and as expert witnesses in litigation cases. While assisting in the investigation of accidents to both civil and military aircraft is an important aspect of the work, there are many examples of component failures and defects that were detected before an accident could occur, i....

Since the ALOHA accident in 1988, the FAA, labor unions, aircraft and engine manufacturers, and the U.S. air carrier industry have been working together in a new endeavor called maintenance human factors. With the growing recognition that many accidents may involve maintenance error, the industry has turned to the science of human factors to provide answers to why a technician, ground crew agen...

In order for unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) to fly safely into civil airspace, the development of vigorous unmanned aircraft’s Accident Avoidance System (UAS-AAS) is rather crucial. However, accurate localization is a key prerequisite for a UAS-AAS to be successful. This paper investigate the application of two filtering and smoothing techniques to a UAS given the aircraft dynamics, sensor per...

The purpose of this study was to analyze the frequency of general aviation (GA) airplane accidents and accident rates on the basis of aircraft certification to determine whether or not differences in aircraft certification rules had an influence on accidents. In addition, the narrative cause descriptions contained within the accident reports were analyzed to determine whether there were differe...

this paper deals with the ejection system that can be implemented in a civil aircraft. It is important for an aircraft to have an ejection seat in case the plane meets an accident in a battle or during test flight and the pilot has to bail out to save his or her life. The mechanism involves lifting of the pilot to a safe distance away from the aircraft and then deploying the parachute. As there...