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Not Black Hawk Down! Helicopter Crash – Part 4 30 Mar 2013 | 10:22 am
Survivability Issues in Crash into Water As per their analysis, Brooks et al. surmised that survival after crash in water depends upon “amount of warning time, rapidity of sinking and inversion” [13]....
Not Black Hawk Down! Helicopter Crash – Part 3 30 Mar 2013 | 10:17 am
Crashes into Water Flying helicopters over water has an accident rate of 2.0 per 100,000h as compared to 0.4 per 100,000h in fixed wing aircraft, as reported by Civil Aviation Authority’s helicopter a...
Not Black Hawk Down! Helicopter Crash – Part 2 30 Mar 2013 | 10:10 am
Offshore Oil and Gas Operations Baker et al. reported that there were 178 helicopter crashes from 1983 to 2009 related to offshore oil and gas operations in the Gulf of Mexico. This was based on the d...
Not Black Hawk Down! Helicopter Crash 30 Mar 2013 | 09:51 am
Danger is an inherent component of military helicopter missions. Remember the daring mission launched to capture a Somalian warlord on 3rd October 1993 when an American Black Hawk (Super-Six One) was ...
Old Facts, New Insights – Lessons from A-320 Part 4 28 Oct 2012 | 11:57 am
This interesting study by Sarter and Woods revealed that the automation surprises “occur when the crew detects that automation or aircraft behaviour is deviating from their expectations” [2]. In turn,...
Old Facts, New Insights – Lessons from A-320 Part 3 28 Oct 2012 | 11:52 am
A spate of incidents and accidents during 1990s suggested that pilots flying modern ‘glass cockpit’ aircraft “sometimes fail to detect unanticipated and undesirable automation behaviour in time to rec...
Old Facts, New Insights – Lessons from A-320 Part 2 28 Oct 2012 | 11:46 am
The details of the automation surprises faced by the pilots participating in the questionnaire survey is presented hereafter [2]. Failure to activate the approach. By “activating the approach” (a sing...
Old Facts, New Insights – Lessons from A-320 28 Oct 2012 | 11:38 am
Automation surprises result from an imbalance between ‘autonomy’ and ‘authority’ of advanced automated systems and the gaps in the operator’s mental model of the system and its interactions. The vital...
Old Facts, New Insights – Surprises in Glass Cockpit 28 Oct 2012 | 11:32 am
The final report of crash of Air France Flight AF 447 stated that the precipitating event of the accident was “temporary inconsistency between the measured airspeeds…..that led in particular to autopi...
Who failed in Crash of Flight IX-812? Part 3 23 Oct 2012 | 09:39 am
Glaring Organisational Failure For the purpose of brevity, the organisational failures are only listed here. Fatigue Risk Management System. Air India Express does not have a fatigue risk management ...
