BACKGROUND Flight attendants are an understudied occupational group, despite undergoing a wide and unique range of adverse job-related exposures. In our study, we aimed to characterize the health profile of cabin crew relative to the U.S. general population. METHODS In 2014-2015, we surveyed participants of the Harvard Flight Attendant Health Study. We compared the prevalence of their health ...

This paper aims to develop a critical approach flight safety by assessing theoretical and empirical studies on fatigue risk factors in cockpit cabin crew. also builds fundamental basis for managing the aviation industry. The main contribution of demonstrates fact that primary secondary crew affect level job satisfaction, operational efficiency, security.

The loss of bone and muscle is a major concern for long duration space flight. In December of 1989, we established a collaboration with Russian colleagues to determine the bone and lean tissue changes in cosmonauts before and after flights on the Mir space station lasting 4-14.4 months. Eighteen crew members received a lumbar spine and hip DEXA scan (Hologic 1000W) before and after flight; 17 c...

Line Operations Safety Audit (LOSA) is a well known preventive aviation safety program for Threat and Error management (TEM). High quality LOSA data suitable obtained when flight crew flies at the same level of attention as ordinary flight. Factors contributing to may include

Introduction: An estimated 3.8 billion passengers traveled on commercial aircraft in 2016, of whom close to 1.5 billion crossed international boundaries. Modern commercial aircrafts can carry up to 800 passengers and can fly more than 18 hours. Although not very common, in-flight medical incidents can result in flight diversions that are costly and extremely inconvenient. The a...

The flight crew of the Voyager aircraft were continuously exposed to a broadband noise for nearly 5 days during a trial flight, and for over 9 days during their nonstop flight around the world. Evaluation of the threshold shifts resulting from these exposures represents a unique opportunity to study the effect of human exposure to intense continuous noise for long durations. Postflight audiomet...

INTRODUCTION A growing number of individuals with significant medical histories travel for business and holidays. Precise anticipation and stratification of transport-relevant illness severity in the planning stage of an air medical evacuation is crucial for mission success and patient safety. METHODS We developed a staging system (ie, Stratification of Air Medical Transport by Expression of ...

This paper focuses on the application of data link for communication between air traffic management and FMSequipped aircraft. Based on requirements and guidelines for data link usage, a general philosophy for automated data exchange and the distribution of tasks between the human operators and the automation is presented. Many different areas are affected by the introduction of data link, inclu...