National Transportation Safety Board

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.…

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…

Both physiological and psychological human related factors have contributed to either an accident or incident within the aviation industry. The classification includes the factors that affect the mental and physical ability of a pilot to operate an aircraft. The specific contributors include workload, situational awareness, familiarity, training and experience, fatigue and memory. Situational Awareness The term describes the ability of an individual which in the case is a pilot to beware of…

Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan Crashed in the Ocean Before They Could Make it to Howland Island. Coast Guard Itasca was waiting for the arrival of Earhart and Noonan off a little island called Howland Island. Amelia Earhart sent one last transmission to Itasca where she stated that her and Noonan thought they were close to the island, but their plane was running on the verge of empty. Soon there were no sign of the plane, according to Szalay’s website (2017) Itasca started immediately on a two…

what will happen if the airplane crashed , what will cause the airplane to crash or what safety items this aircraft have in the case of any problem. “Aviation safety is a term encompassing the theory, investigation, and categorization of flight failures, and the prevention of such failures through regulation, education, and training.” (Aviation safety, 2015) If we search in the internet for the aviation safety hazards we will have many reasons and example for each reason, because in the…

Airlines Flight 232 took off from Stapleton International Airport, Denver, Colorado, and was scheduled to land in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, with a layover in Chicago, Illinois. It was a passenger flight with 285 passengers and 11 crewmembers on board. The first hour and seven minutes of the flight were uneventful and went to plan until suddenly a loud explosion was heard and was shortly followed by large vibrations which shook the airframe.…

The novel, Miracle in the Andes, by Nando Parrado, tells the horrifying story of a plane that crashed in the Andes mountains while carrying a Uruguayan rugby team and some of the players’ family members. Due to multiple great strokes of fortune, nearly all of the people onboard the plane survived the crash, including forty of the forty-five passengers, but the narrator and main character of the book, Nando Parrado, unfortunately lost his mother. They learned early that survival in the Andes…

exclaimed they were going down. Three employees of the Bolivian based airline have been detained, including the chief executive, Gustavo Vargas. The three are being questioned, and may even face charges of man slaughter because "they failed to follow safety procedures," and negligence, according to…

Secondly, another deeply credited theory is the belief that Earhart and co-pilot Noonan were ‘Nikumaroro Castaway’s.’ It is speculated both pilots touched down on a remote South Pacific Island called Nikumaroro – now commonly known as Gardner Island. The belief stands that the Electra was running low on fuel implementing fear within the pilots as they began searching for a safe destination to refuel (Howland Island.) Unintentionally, the flight path veered towards the Southwest and they landed…

I. Introduction This investigation focuses on the accident that Korean Air Flight 801 met on August 5, 1997 on Nimitz Hill in Asan, Guam. The fatal accident involves issues on Guam Airport’s differences from other airports and the misguidance of the destination airport’s operations. The pilots did not base their tasks on the airport’s systems, they based it on their knowledge and on what they were used to. The cockpit crew’s incorrect decision, miscalculation, and reliance to wrong information…