Aircraft Accident Investigation

Abstract

The design of aircraft system ensures that there is safety and prevalence for the rare events of aircraft incidents. There are various factors that are causing aircraft incidents and accidents. The need to understand these factors requires the study of previous research for determining variables for accidents data. The employment of data mining technique helps to provide a holistic analysis for the relationship between the patters of incident and accident data. The causal and contributory factors are explored that are importantly associated with accidents of aircraft.

Introduction4

Theories and Model Characteristics4

Data Selection and Data Constraints6

Data Mining Techniques7

Multiple Analyses of Factors8

Conclusion & Recommendation9

Future Work10

Aircraft Accident Investigation

Introduction

Convention on International Civil Aviation defines the context of aviation accident in its Annex 13. It presented as an occurrence related the aircraft operation that takes place between the time any customer boards the aircraft with the purpose of flight inutile such internals of time as all such customers have disembarked. The status of such customer or passenger is seriously or fatally injured. It leads to missing, structural failure, sustainable damage, or completely inaccessibility of aircraft. It is necessary to imply that aircraft incident is occurrence of an event which is not counted as accident. It is a safety hazard with the addition of only one or even more than one factors that could have effected in fatality or injury or even progressive damage. There are remarkable improvements in the history of air transportation that has shown robust growth in the air travel with lowering conditions of accident rates (Cordner & Cordner, 2011).

Theories and Model Characteristics

There are two influential theories about the safety studies for aircraft transportation. These theories include Heinrich Pyramid model and Swiss Cheese model. James Reason introduced The Swiss Cheese model in the year 1990. He viewed and stated in this theory about hazardous situation that culminate all factors towards an accident that is equivalent to the slicing successive slices of Swiss cheese. This figurative association defines slice as a process or system structurally designed to resist harm (Cordner & Cordner, 2011). Slices have holes that represent errors or faults in the process or system. Each error or fault happens frequently in the absence of harmful results. There is chance of occurrence of accidents when holes are lined up or combined together. The investigation of human factors is the common application for this model.

H. W. Heinrich introduced The Heinrich Pyramid model in the year 1930 that represent the accidents as high-risk and low-frequency safety hazards at the top tier of the pyramid. Each successive layer of the pyramid possesses unsafe acts and incidents that are less dangerous but are more frequent. The safety domain of aviation adapts this Heinrich pyramid for all major accidents. This shows that there are almost 10-15 incident, 3-5 non-fatal accidents, and around hundreds and hundreds of unreported or unpublished events (Plan, 2010).

The relationship or correlation between incidents and accidents derives the study perspectives similar to the characteristics of Heinrich ...