air safety fundamentals: lessons learned from the...
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John Alcorn The University of Alabama Huntsville
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Average aviation crashes per year since 2000: 167
Average aviation deaths per year since 2000: 1184 people
Principal cause Percentage Operation Percentage
Human Error 67.57 % Landing 50.39 %
Aircraft Failure 20.72 % Flight 27.73 %
Weather 5.95 % Takeoff 20.96 %
Sabotage 3.25 % Taxiing 0.64 %
Other 2.51 % Parking 0.28 %
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March 27 1977. Tenerife, Canary Islands
583 fatalities
KLM flight 4805 Pan Am flight 1736
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Reasons ◦ Usage of non-standard terminology
◦ Poor cockpit resource management
◦ Foggy weather
◦ Radio interference
KLM attempted takeoff and collided with Pan Am ◦ Everyone on KLM killed
◦ 61 survivors on Pan Am
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June 9 2005. Logan International Airport, Boston MA
Co-pilot realized planes were on collision course ◦ Advised pilot not to take-off
Planes passed within about 170 feet of each other
US Airways Boeing 737 Aer Lingus Airbus A330
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July 17 1996, New York-JFK Airport
230 fatalities
Trans World flight 800 (Boeing 747)
Destroyed fuselage recovered from Atlantic
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NTSB conclusion ◦ Short circuit caused fuel tank explosion
Fuel tank regulation change ◦ Must be filled with nitrogen instead of oxygen
Destroyed fuselage recovered from Atlantic
Memorial at Long Island
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August 12 1985. Tokyo to Osaka
520 fatalities, 4 survivors
Japan Airlines Boeing 747 Path of flight and crash site
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June 1 2009. Rio de Janeiro to Paris
Disappeared over Atlantic (Senegalese airspace)
228 fatalities
Airbus A330 Satellite image of stormfronts
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Cause ◦ Inability to measure airspeed caused deactivation of autopilot
◦ Pilots became confused, inappropriate procedure put into action
Vertical stabilizer recovery Pitot probe on a small plane
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Accidents are prevented by learning from mistakes
The examples in this presentation are only a few of thousands of disasters
Improve engineering methodology, regulation authority, flight operations, and airport security