Some of these errors are of skill based, judgment and or perception based but some are a combination. 1. The flight crew initially boarded the wrong aircraft. A Comair ramp agent noticed that the accident flight crew had boarded the wrong airplane and started its auxiliary power unit. Another company ramp agent notified the flight crewmembers that they had boarded the wrong airplane. The flight crew then shut down the APU and proceeded to the correct airplane. I don’t know if this is a common mistake but shows me how easy the day can start off wrong. That’s 3 professional people that all walked on the wrong plane and did not notice. Should this have set off some…
In the article “Why are Airplanes safe” the main idea is that out of all the transportation…
Ai – A description of four different examples of accidents and/or sudden illnesses should occur…
While many factors played into the crash of American Airlines Flight 1420, the National Transportation Safety Board found flight crew performance, decisions in regard to weather operations, and pilot fatigue as contributing factors.…
Let us delve into one of these incidences, of which deals with the human error surrounding the crew of American Airline’s flight 173, whom lost their lives due to human and mechanical error. United Airlines…
Paragraph C) Harty said that some airplane crashes are happening because of the airplane engines. For example, there are some airplane crashes that happened in the past because there were a problem with its engine. Admittedly, some accidents were happened because of this reason, but the awareness of pilot and weather have most impact for the airplane accidents. To illustrate, the most accidents was happened because the pilots was not control the plane because some of them were joking or slipping while they are driving. Moreover, the bad weather such as rain or fog cause accidents because pilots cannot see clearly in those bad situations.…
There are many reasons why accidents happen. For most of these reasons it is human error. People who put themselves in life or death situations should be held accountable for their actions. True sometimes it isn’t their fault however , the main reason they need to be rescued is because of lack of judgment and no knowledge of survival. If people were to make better decisions and come more prepared when traveling in dangerous areas there would be far less accidents and rescues happening. Although there isn’t a cost for a life, there should be a cost given if they risk the lives of…
General aviation safety has been improving continuously for nearly 25 years and accidents continue to decrease even as activity increases. It appears, however, that the fatal accident rate may have reached a plateau. The leading causes of general aviation fatal accidents are related to weather and loss of control. If general aviation growth becomes even more pronounced, a major challenge for the community will be to decrease accident rates to maintain and increase public acceptability of general aviation as a form of air travel.…
The issue of professionalism and responsibility in the airline industry has been in focus recently due to some recent events like the Northwest pilots flying past their destination airport, in-flight breakdowns and rants by pilots and flight attendants, and airline mergers. I feel that sometimes media speculation exaggerates the issues presented to society and highlights mistakes where the public gets the impression that these types of incidents and errors are taking place daily. The reality is that safety measures are an integral part of an airline worker’s training and major errors or incidents occur rather infrequently. At the same time, another reality is that a mistake made by an airline employee, whether pilot, technician, or air traffic controller runs the risk of being fatal and this is where the attributes and ethics of an individual come into play.…
On June 1st, 1999 American Airlines flight 1420 experienced a tragic accident that claimed many lives and made an impact on aviation worldwide. The event and it subsequent investigation shed light on issues and pressures airline pilots face and resulted in new technologies and new regulation that have made aviation safer for all pilots and passengers. Any aviation accident that results in the death of pilots or passengers is a tragedy but these accidents present lessons to be learned through investigation of the human factors, industry efforts and regulation and other factors of aviation safety.…
American Airlines Flight 11 collided with World Trade Center North Tower at 8:46 am on September 11th, 2001, killing everybody on that flight. This began the darkest day in America, today. At first look, most of New York’s citizens and television viewers thought that it was only a terrible accident. United Airlines Flight 175 collided with the South Tower 17 minutes later, this was when they all knew that the airplanes crashing into the World Trade Center was not an accident. With everybody left in wonder and disbelief, Americans were still trying to comprehend what could have happened to bring about a tragic situation such as this. Terrorism was such a remote thought to Americans that they would have never suspected that something like this would ever happen in their beloved…
You are aboard an airliner returning from vacation. You have a window seat and all seems well. Suddenly the pilot announces over the intercom for everyone to fasten their seatbelts and prepare for landing. You look out the window and see several other aircraft flying around near the airport. Suddenly the aircraft begins to shake and bounce around. You are getting nervous because you can still see lots of aircraft flying around and you can also see lots of traffic on the ground at the airport as the plane circles around. The only thing going through your head is what if we collide with another aircraft or collide with vehicles when we land. You become really nervous and begin to panic, the guy sitting next to you ask, are you OK? You tell him that you think the plane is going to crash into nearby planes or hit something on the ground. The man calmly reassures you that systems are in place to ensure that does not happen. During this paper I will talk about some of those systems and some new technology that will enhance flight safety and ground safety.…
Human Error Theories can be realized in both Behavior Models as Accident Proneness Theory (Accident 1983) and Human Factor Models as Ferrel Theory (Ferrel 1977). Behavior models show that the main cause of accidents are workers. While the human factors models affirm that the main cause of accidents is human error.…
Internal causes can include serious accidents and illnesses, transportation problem, stress, low morale, poor physical fitness, inadequate nutrition and personal problem.…
There are several causes of road accidents and I´m going to mention some of them that I think they are the main causes: don’t respect the speed limit, drive drunk, drive many hours without rest, don’t put attention at the road, don’t be patient, bad conditions of roads, bad weather (snow, flog, rain,…), and there are more but I think that these are the most important.…