Air safety

Chapter 5: Crashes that changed aviation There accidents that were a wake up call in the aviation industry. They triggered important safety improvements and upgrades; some of them are felt the moment you sent foot on a plane as. On June 30, 1956 the commercial aviation of the USA was hit by one of the worst accidents in those days in terms of money spent. TWA flight 2 and united airlines flight 718 collided in midair above the Grand Canyon due to both of them flying in the same airspace. Its…

Air travel is nowhere near comfortable. A message from Dr. Florence Thomson written in response to an article published in The British Medical Journal in 1953 was, “most passengers are quite unable to rest in comfort in the position allowed, and sleep is quite impossible except in very short snatches” (996). In 2016, nothing changed for the better in this regard; CNN recently published an article about the disruptive passengers in flights and incidents of air rage in airplanes (McKirdy). What…

physical and mental work that the controllers are supposed to undertake so that air traffic can be managed safely [1]. Airspace can be divided into subdivisions to provide more efficient air traffic services and to reduce the effect of the controller workload on Air Traffic Management capacity. This process is called the sectorization [2]. ATS route is a special way designed to ensure that traffic flows are in accordance with air traffic services rules [3]. There could be many intersecting and…

ValuJet Flight 592 Crash The ValuJet Flight 592 plane was a regularly scheduled flight from the Miami International Airport to Hartsfield Jackson Atlanta International Airport. In the cockpit was pilots Kubeck Candalyn and Richard Hazen who had over 20,700 flight hours total between the too combined. On May 11, 1996, the McDonell-Douglas DC-9 operating the route crashed into the Everglades after shortly taking off from the airport. It crashed as a result of a fire in the cargo compartment…

The aviation accident investigations concentrate on improving safety. The reviews of the scientific and technical developments that have remained the driving force for the enhancing safety have gone beyond the scale of the present undertaking. Earlier legislations concentrated on aircraft impact on the ground and not safety on board. The first air regulation took place on 23 April 1784 (Bibel 23). The regulation prohibited balloons frying without a special license. The regulation gave the…

Abstract: Crew resource management is management system which aims to improving safety on-board and reduce the risk of accidents. The purpose of this research is to identify the what is the crew recourse management and discuss about the good crew resource management. For example, the US Airways Flight 1549. Also I will discuss about the bad crew resources management in a true story which is Air France Flight 447. In this paper I will demonstrate the accidents and I will show the importance of…

The most important factor that caused the derailment of the train is, when Lac-Megantic was testing its mandatory hand brakes test, the hand brakes and air brakes were left together, so during the test, the freight train were held by the hand brakes and air brakes, which gave the impression that the train was held only by the hand brakes, so the engineer and the rail traffic controller thought that the train was secure. Before the accident, the locomotive was reviewed by MMA’s repair shop eight…

Sandi Clipton (Clipton) wishes to challenge two decisions made by the Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA). The decisions affect the operation of Sanditon Aviation Pty Ltd (Sanditon), of which Clipton is the CEO. The first decision is CASA’s rejection of Clipton’s application to renew Sanditon’s Air Operator’s Certificate (AOC). The effect is that Sanditon is unable to operate. The Civil Aviation Act 1988 (‘the CAA’) provides for merits review in this instance and potentially allows for new…

How to Implement the Recommendations from the Colgan Air Crash The most important part of any accident investigation is the list of recommendations that come from the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB). While these recommendations are suggestions, they are designed to prevent similar accidents from occurring in the future. The “lessons learned” are critical to the work of the NTSB. The Aviation Accident Report (AAR-10-01) issued twenty-five recommendations related to this flight.…

In 2008, the National Safety Council developed a table illustrating the odds of dying over a lifetime; they determined, a person has a 1 in 98 chance of dying in an automobile accident, while the same person has a 1 in 7,178 chance of dying in an aircraft accident. This means a person is about 73 times more likely to be killed on the road than in the air (Locsin, 2008). The unavoidable problem of perception in aviation is that, unlike auto accidents, air disasters result in a far greater…