#RECENT PLANE CRASHES 2015 MANUAL#

The Flight Safety Foundation is working with regulators and airlines worldwide to expand that safety philosophy in the Asia Pacific and Pan American regions. Africa-based airlines lost four plane last year. 'African safety is moving in the right direction,' Tyler said. 31.ĭramatic reductions in fatal crashes in recent years come after concentrated industry efforts. IATA has worked with African airlines through safety audits with recommended procedures to improve their standards. The FAA expects to complete guidance for pilot training to monitor automated equipment by Jan. The FAA issued a rule in November 2013 to require training to prevent and recover from stalls, such as the one that affected the Air France flight, and for wind gusts.

The FAA replied that the agency shared concerns “about an over-reliance on automation and the importance of training pilots to handle unexpected events and manually fly an aircraft.”

#RECENT PLANE CRASHES 2015 MANUAL#

7 that the FAA doesn’t have a process to ensure airline pilots are trained to use and monitor automated equipment while also maintaining proficiency in manual flight. The Transportation Department’s inspector general warned in a report Jan. But in June 2009, Air France Flight 447 plummeted into the Atlantic Ocean when pilots did not realize equipment had frozen in a storm. Chesley Sullenberger in January 2009 landed a plane on the Hudson River when geese knocked out the plane’s engines after taking off from New York’s LaGuardia airport.

“If you increase the automation and decrease the orientation of pilots to more of a systems-management approach, what happens when the system fails?” “The caution is that the improvements we’ve made may also be kind of a trap,” said Bill Waldock, professor of safety science at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Prescott, Ariz. Safety experts worry that while computerized controls that make flying safer than ever, it also reduces opportunities for pilots to gain experience manually flying a plane, a skill they need in emergencies. One lingering concern is aircraft automation, which the FAA estimates is in use 90% of the time in flight. Melanie Hinton, a spokeswoman for the industry Airlines for America, which represents most of the large airlines, said carriers build on their record of the safest aviation system in the world by working closely with workers, manufacturers and regulators. “One of the things that we worry a lot about all the time is that people can become complacent,” said Jon Beatty, CEO of the Flight Safety Foundation. “Safety is a journey, not a destination. 31 after a bomb on board exploded. Those crashes together killed 374 people.ĭespite success at reducing crash threats, safety experts said airlines must strive for improvements because if the rate remains the same, the number of deaths would increase with passenger growth. That eliminates two major crashes from the rate: The loss of Germanwings Flight 9525, whose pilot apparently crashed into the Alps on March 24, and Metrojet Flight 9268, which crashed in Egypt Oct. “In terms of the number of fatal accidents, it was an extraordinarily safe year,” said Tony Tyler, IATA’s CEO.ĭeliberate crashes, such as suicides and terror attacks, are excluded from the tally, IATA said. Last year's rate of losing 0.32 planes for every million flights to major accidents was higher than the 0.27 rate in 2014. But the fatality rate improved on previous years, when airlines averaged 17.6 fatal accidents per year and 504 deaths for the period of 2010 through 2014, according to IATA. Still, he said, a kid in an airport is more likely to become president or win an Olympic gold medal than to perish on the next flight. The risk is higher on flights that start from airports in developing countries – one death in a million flights – versus flights from industrialized nations – at one death in 23.9 million flights, he said. passenger airliner was in February 2009.Īny commercial flight is relatively safe, according to Arnold Barnett, a professor of statistics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who crunched numbers from 2008 through mid-2014 to calculate the risks of flying. None of the crashes occurred in the U.S., where the last fatal crash of a U.S. The four fatal crashes counted in the statistics all involved turboprop aircraft and taken together killed 136 people, according to the report by the International Air Transport Association. Commercial airliners crashed at a rate of one for every 3.1 million flights worldwide in 2015 – making last year one of the safest on record, industry officials said Monday.

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