Plane Crash Of A Cessna Citation 550

The captain of the aircraft was 42 years old at the moment of the accident. American Airlines hired him in July 1985 holding ATP (Airline Transport Certificate) and a first-class medical certificate with no limitations by the FAA dated June 5, 2001. The captain, age 42, was hired by American Airlines in July 1985. He held an airline transport pilot (ATP) certificate and a Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) first-class medical certificate dated June 5, 2001, with no limitations and had a total of 8050 flying hours. The first officer was 34 years old at the moment of the fatal accident. He was hired by American Airlines in March 1991 and he holds an ATP and first-class medical certificates with a limitation given to him by the FAA on October 18, 2001. His medical certificate stated that he must wear correcting lenses and according to the American Airlines 4,403 total flying hours.

American Airlines Flight 1420 is the aircraft that I will be writing about in this essay. It is classified as a runway overrun accident. The department that investigated the accident was the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB). Human factors will be the focus in this project by using the Human Factor Analysis and Classification System (HFAC) Model. I will be focusing on two different human factor areas and relate those to the chain of event that caused the aircraft to overrun the runway.

Flight 1420 of American Airlines claimed the lives of 11 passengers on June 1, 1999. From the NTSB report one can conclude that there were several human factors that contributed to the accident of American Airlines flight 1420. Examples include unsafe acts by the pilots, violations that represent a willful disregard for the rules and regulations that govern safe flight as well as fatigue and substandard practices of operators which in this case include communication and coordination between the pilots and the air traffic controller. This paper will talk about these

This paper will cover an accident that occurred on August 26, 2011 which involved a Eurocopter AS350 B2 helicopter owned by the Air Methods Corporation. The accident in question happened in Mosby, Missouri and resulted in four fatalities. This paper will provide a brief history on the company, aircraft and how it was equipped and human factors that contributed to the accident and a final conclusion of what could have been done to prevent the accident.

Plane crashes occur for a number of reasons. There seems to be a consensus with the general public that flying is dangerous, engines fail and planes crash. That is true some times, although the majority of plane crashes occur largely due to a combination of human error and mechanical failure. In much of aviations accidents mechanical failure has been a contributing factor. It is impossible however to blame plane crashes on one reason since events leading up to an accident are so varied. Reasoning for plane crashes can be placed in a broad number of categories.

The aviation industry has made great advances in improving flight safety. These successes have been obtained thanks to the improvements made in aircraft designs and systems, which consequently helped in decreasing pilot error. Although they are considered one of the great successes in the industry and safety of flight has improved significantly, however, seventy to eight percent of aircraft accidents are still caused by pilots’ error, which therefore makes it one of the most contributory factors to aircrafts’ accidents. Every airplane accident has profound consequences on many ends and is considered one of the most tragic events that can occur. Accidents deeply weigh on the minds of the family victims and they often also result in major attention from the media and the general public. When accidents occur, the pilots are the ones who are immediately thought to have caused the accident and are often held liable for it. In the history of aviation, several accidents were due to pilot error and the effects of regulations and legal implications as a result of them have been several and complicated (Dismukes, 2007).

Whether people travel for business, vacation, or simply for pleasure, they must decide on what mode of transportation to take. Sometimes, they decide that the best form of transportation is to take a plane, and each time they enter it, they are placing their lives in the hands of a company, air traffic controller, and most importantly, the flight crew. Although airplanes are the most convenient and quickest means of transportation, accidents occur due to the failure of one of these three components. Statistically, the odds of being in an airplane accident are 1 in 7,178 compared to the 1 in 98 involving cars showing that airplanes are a safer type of transportation (5 Most Common Causes of Airplane Accidents). If for some reason there is an accident, a spectrum of people are facing the repercussions due to it and should consider these before deciding on taking a flight. Airplane accidents are a horrific tragedy that affect a variety of individuals including the airline, the manufacturer of the airplane, and the families.

Approach-and-landing accidents (ALAs) have been a persistent aviation safety concern. As early as the Wright brothers’ pioneering efforts of manned flight, controlled landing without crashing was a target end state of successful flight (Wright Brothers Aeroplane Company, n.d.). More than a century later, perturbations to the approach and landing phases of flight prevail. In an earlier study by the FSF ALAR Task Force, the average worldwide fatal ALA rate from 1980 through 1996 was 16.8 per year (FSF, 1999). Between 2007 and 2016, approximately 56% of all fatal accidents in worldwide commercial operations occurred during the approach and landing phases of flight (Boeing, 2017). Although substantially less than the fatal ALA rate of 23 per year predicted a decade earlier (FSF, 1999), this is an average fatal ALA rate of 3.5 per year. However, these numbers do not account for the nonfatal ALA accidents and incidents resulting in aircraft damage and other adverse outcomes. While the average fatal ALA rate has been significantly reduced, the ALA risk has not. Although only as many as 4 percent of all approaches occur in conditions jeopardizing aviation safety, nearly 97 percent of those at-risk approaches are voluntarily continued to landing (FSF, 2017). According to these numbers, only 3 percent of at-risk approaches in commercial aviation are countered by adherence to the policies and procedures intended to mitigate them. While ALAs occur at a

ValuJet 592 was a tragic accident that occurred in May 1996 when the plane crashed in a fiery inferno in the Florida Everglades, only minutes after taking off from Miami. The investigation report published by the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) ruled the cause of the fire as two oxygen generators igniting in the forward hold of the plane, but identified many emergent behaviors that changed the business environment and contributed to the final outcome. This discovery unearthed errors made among the system units-ValuJet, Federal Aviation Agency (FAA), and SabreTech- that lead to this system failure (Langewiesche, 1998). Following will be an analysis of the various system units and how their strategic business decisions contributed, and ultimately led, to this horrific accident.

Human error has been acknowledged as a main contributor to more than 70 percent of commercial and private aircraft accidents. While characteristically connected with flight procedures, human error has also recently become a main concern in maintenance practices and air traffic management. Human factors specialists work with engineers, pilots, and mechanics to apply the latest information about the interface between human performance and commercial aircraft to help operators develop safety and efficiency in their daily operations.

Since the first aircraft launched from a ship, the development of commercial passenger aircraft, to jet fighters and unmanned drone systems of today’s age, “safety is paramount” is not just a catch phrase and is repeated and highlighted in every aspect of aviation in the world. Historically speaking, safety has not always been the most important factor in research, development, and operation and those tragic results often end in loss of aircraft or worse yet, the life of others. This paper will discuss the early beginnings of the aviation industry and highlight some of the more catastrophic events that lead to safety becoming a concern. It will then list and describe some of the legislative actions and regulations that have been established with the evolution of safety standards in the aviation industry. Lastly, this paper will analyze the implementation of safety programs and processes in the workplace and the safety advances in aircraft production and technological systems of airport operations.

Ever since the first plane was invented by The Wright Brothers, their invention was further improved and developed until present. Nevertheless, nothing is perfect, aviation accidents and incidents have been happening once in a while and they are happening more frequently recently. The main factors such as human error, weather, and mechanical failure have a total of 40%, contributing to the causes of fatal aviation

This is a briefing of the original NTSB report of the accident that occurred on June 9, of 2009. The reason of this report is to determine the causes which made the aircraft crash, kill two people, and left another person very badly injured. This report is divided into three sections: Accident History, Causes of the crash, and recommendations.

It is very difficult, when an accident occurs during a flight to determine precisely what happened for several reasons:

Accidents in the aviation industry can occur due to many factors. An aviation accident is the worst nightmare of every pilot or passenger that has ever ridden in an aircraft. Although air travel is one of the safest forms of transportation, accidents do happen with dramatic and terrifying results. The causes of these aviation accidents vary greatly depending on specific circumstances and problems that may develop during the flight process. Weather is one of the factors that can influence an aircraft accident in a number of ways. There are several weather factors that cause and contributed to aircraft accidents. An aircraft can become directly impacted by weather when they are struck by lightning in storms, blown off course, incur