National Highway Traffic Safety Administration

As I’m sitting at the terminal at LaGuardia International airport in New York City waiting on my flight to Los Angeles. Someone speaks over the intercom, “Attention passengers, the flight to Los Angeles will be delayed for two hours. I apologize for any inconveniences this may have caused.” Thinking to myself, “What the heck, this always happens when I fly.” I’ve already been sitting there for an hour, I decide to get up and stretch my legs. Wandering throughout the terminal passing by…

Recalling the statistics from Boeing, civil aviation has a success rate of about 99% (Statistical Summary, 2014). For this reason, it is easy to fall into the trap of being unprepared in the event that the unthinkable happens, and there is a major accident involving the organization’s aircraft. If the accident takes place in the United States, the NTSB will deploy a “Go Team” to begin investigating the accident. If the accident takes place in another country, the NTSB will most likely be…

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…

Routine Maintenance Gone Wrong “It was very, very hard for me. I saw my hand come off - I could see my hand on the ground and other parts all over the place.” German aircraft engineer, Hendrik Donkers Tire charging is a routine task in aircraft maintenance. However, if proper precaution is not observed, it can cause severe injury and even death. We will review two case studies where this routine task had gone wrong. We will discuss the possible causes of the errors and how we can prevent a…

The weather and setting of Roger Rosenblatt’s essay, “The Man in the Water,” had a prodigious effect on one particular man as well as everyone else who was involved in the catastrophic January 13, 1982 crash of Air Florida Flight 90. Due to the winter season and the weather conditions, the water in the Potomac River where passengers landed was frigid. One courageous man stepped forward and began to save as many of the horrified and dying people as he could. Since the water was so cold, it…

The interest of the FAA is to satisfy those who contacted it saying that something needed to be changed and to ensure the safety of the people aboard the planes. As a result, the FAA changed its rules to compliment those requests and in the end, it made them a better organization and it made their material and planes safer for travel to the public and the private citizens of…

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…

An Aerospatiale AS 355 Helicopter went down Oct 17 in Erwinna, PA killing pilot. The helicopter went down after the Doug Brigham, the pilot, lost control of the flight. According to a final accident report by the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), Brigham intended to depart on a scheduled repositioning flight from a Helipad behind Brigham’s home to an airport located 25 nautical miles southwest. A handheld GPS device recovered from inside the helicopter shows that Brigham flew only…

Analysis of the Crash The National Transportation Safety Board determined that the likely cause of the crash was that both pilots were fatigued (NTSB, 2010). Both the pilot and first officers failed to respond and correct a stall during snowy weather that the airplane could not recover from. Other contributions to the accident were the flight crew’s failure to monitor airspeed in relation to the rising position of the low-speed cue, the flight crew’s failure to obey sterile cockpit procedures,…

In the cockpit, all of the instruments were destroyed and all of the levers were pushed into the cockpit panel even though the throttle quadrant was damaged in the crash. However, rescue and recovery personnel were unsure if they disturbed controls and levers, and between the fire and impact damage it was inconclusive the positions of the actuators. Tracing the flight controls cables showed that the cable had the proper integrity, but burning made actuator positions indistinguishable. In the…