Reduce Accidents and Incidents Caused by Human Fatigue in the Aviation Industry - NTSB Most Wanted
Courtesy NTSB The National Transportation Safety Board today issued its 2010 Federal Most Wanted List of Transportation Safety Improvements ...
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NTSB cites crew actions in ATR-42 cargo flight crash in Texas ...
The crash of an ATR-42 cargo airplane while on approach to landing at Lubbock, Texas, was caused by the flight crew’s failure to maintain a safe airspeed, which put the plane into an aerodynamic stall at an altitude too low from which to recover, the NTSB determined.
Poor crew resource management, flawed decision-making and human fatigue were cited as contributing factors to the crash that left the captain seriously injured and the first officer with minor injuries.
...aviation accidents caused by fatigue - News
Rivet holes on problem jet didn't line up, NTSB investigation shows
3. Fatigue striation analysis using a scanning electron microscope of specific skin fractures to determine the rate of crack propagation. 4. Additional portions lap joints from the accident aircraft will be examined.
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Scrutiny Lags as Jetliners Show the Effects of Age But they note that fatigue problems have not caused any deaths on jetliners since the Aloha accident, even with millions of flights a year in the United States. J. Randolph Babbitt, the head of the FAA, and Boeing officials said last week that it was |
Holes in planes rare but pose deadly risk
As horrific as these cases are, aviation safety experts say they should not be too closely linked to the recent Southwest accident. A fatigue failure linked to a faulty repair is different from the much more rare problems that the Southwest jet
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What to Do About Napping Air Traffic Controllers
Creating a “fatigue awareness program” and an office of “Fatigue Risk Management” instead of combating the causes of fatigue is precisely the kind of thing that gives government bureaucracy a bad name. And at this point, public confidence in the FAA is
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Boeing surprised by metal fatigue in older 737 jets
Because of the aviation accident, which caused the cabin on Southwest Flight 812 to lose pressure, the FAA required inspection of at least 175 older Boeing planes after every 500 flights until the manufacturer and regulator could better understand the
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Safety Pilot: Curb their enthusiasm - AOPA - Aircraft Owners and Pilots ...
We’ve often spoken about sharing the joy of flight with nonpilots to introduce the wonders of general aviation. Many of us are enthusiastic—perhaps to the point of being evangelical—but there are times when enthusiasm must take a back seat to reality. It’s that judgment thing! Sadly, a few pilots don’t seem to quite grasp this and lives are lost, as in these cases.
In January 2010, a 23-year-old pilot with just more than 300 hours total flight time, a commercial certificate, and instrument rating rented a Cessna 172 for the day to give rides to friends in Michigan. According to the NTSB report, “Starting at 6 p.m., the night prior, the pilot received or made calls or sent text messages, every hour, through midnight, until 3:12 a.m. on the day of the accident. In his communications, the pilot told the passenger about some friends that were going out that evening. The passenger responded back, expressing concern that the pilot be in good flying shape for the next day.”
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