Human Factors Analysis of Commercial Aircraft Accidents in the United States: 1960-2000

摘要

Nowadays, the factor more likely to cause an aviation accident is aircraft mechanical fallibility. Thus, the majority of research on aviation safety has focused on designing better systems. With the advancement in aircraft technology, providing extreme extremely ly capable aircrafts, human error is now the leading cause of avia aviation accidents compared to tion mechanical failure. Understanding and preventing human error in aviation disasters is now the principal challenge within aviation safety community. Major effort has been devoted to finding ways to improve aviation safet safety through improvement in pilot's training. Thi This study has taken advantage of 1960-2000 National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) archival data to investigate the impact of human factors on the safety of air traffic. Results suggest that pilot's flight time,pilot's age , and the severity of the event have a considerable impact on the NTSB rating category of aircraft accidents such as human error, mechanical failure and natural cause. Factors that have been found to pose problem problems to aviation safety were reviewed and directions were offered for the creation of better pilots training programs with potential to increase pilot’s safety awareness.