The Flight 214
Did you know the chance of you dying in an airplane crash is one in an eleven million (Haltiwanger, “The Odds Of A Plane Crash Are One In 11 Million, Yet You’re Still Afraid”)? Sometimes accidents are inevitable and sometimes they are not. All it takes is a simple error for any accident to occur. Over the years most of the airplanes accident were mostly caused by the human factors. In aviation industry, the most common there are twelve most common human factors which are known as the Dirty Dozen. The Dirty Dozen consists of Lack of Teamwork, Fatigue, Lack of Resources, Pressure, Lack of Assertiveness, Stress, Lack of Awareness, Norms, Complacency, Lack of Knowledge, Distraction, and Lack of Communication. Human factors were the main cause for the crash of the Asiana Flight 214. On July 6 of 2013, Asiana Airlines Flight 214 crashed at San Francisco’s airport while landing. CNN reported, the Boeing 777 was carrying around 307 passengers and 16 crew member, and injured over two hundred people and killed three people (Martinez).
Manufacturers of the airplanes makes changes to airplanes very often in order to provide a better and more reliable way to travel. The knowledge …show more content…
In order to do that, the pilot turned the auto-pilot off and changed the thrust levers to idle. Changing the position of the thrust levers caused the “auto-throttle (A/T) to change to the HOLD mode, a mode in which the A/T does not control airspeed” (NTSB,” Crash of Asiana Flight 214 Accident Report Summary”). He did not know that the thrust levers could change the position of the auto-thrust system and that the auto-throttle also has the feature to control the airspeed. Since the auto-throttle wasn’t controlling the airspeed, the airplane reached a really low speed for landing. It was made worse by not communicating the other flight crews of what he did which was considered a standard
Did you know the chance of you dying in an airplane crash is one in an eleven million (Haltiwanger, “The Odds Of A Plane Crash Are One In 11 Million, Yet You’re Still Afraid”)? Sometimes accidents are inevitable and sometimes they are not. All it takes is a simple error for any accident to occur. Over the years most of the airplanes accident were mostly caused by the human factors. In aviation industry, the most common there are twelve most common human factors which are known as the Dirty Dozen. The Dirty Dozen consists of Lack of Teamwork, Fatigue, Lack of Resources, Pressure, Lack of Assertiveness, Stress, Lack of Awareness, Norms, Complacency, Lack of Knowledge, Distraction, and Lack of Communication. Human factors were the main cause for the crash of the Asiana Flight 214. On July 6 of 2013, Asiana Airlines Flight 214 crashed at San Francisco’s airport while landing. CNN reported, the Boeing 777 was carrying around 307 passengers and 16 crew member, and injured over two hundred people and killed three people (Martinez).
Manufacturers of the airplanes makes changes to airplanes very often in order to provide a better and more reliable way to travel. The knowledge …show more content…
In order to do that, the pilot turned the auto-pilot off and changed the thrust levers to idle. Changing the position of the thrust levers caused the “auto-throttle (A/T) to change to the HOLD mode, a mode in which the A/T does not control airspeed” (NTSB,” Crash of Asiana Flight 214 Accident Report Summary”). He did not know that the thrust levers could change the position of the auto-thrust system and that the auto-throttle also has the feature to control the airspeed. Since the auto-throttle wasn’t controlling the airspeed, the airplane reached a really low speed for landing. It was made worse by not communicating the other flight crews of what he did which was considered a standard