Data Fusion for Safety Projected Safety Benefits of a Flight Operations Quality Assurance (FOQA) Program for the U.S. Army

摘要

Every year the U.S. Army experiences a significant non-combat accident cost, quantified by the number of lost soldiers, aviators and aircraft, because of aviation accidents that the Army identifies as caused by human error. Compounding this problem is the fact that the Army often cannot definitively identify all the human-machine interfaces that should be changed to eliminate or reduce the future occurrence of like aviation accidents. The U.S. Army could implement a Flight Operations Quality Assurance (FOQA) program, a program that resembles the civilian air carrier FOQA program, for Army Aviation to reduce the number and cost of aviation human error accidents and significantly reduce the number and cost of non-combat soldier, aviator and aircraft losses. This program, though, would be new to the Army. It would involve a fusion of data, recorded by aircraft flight data recorders, to definitively identify human-machine interfaces that should be changed to eliminate or reduce the future occurrence of like aviation accidents.