A case study on the Occurrence Category of aircraft accidents and serious incidents in Korea in the 2000's

Abstract

Since year 2001 to the present time, the aircraft accidents and serious incidents in our country have surpassed 150 occurrences. The Boeing has published the statistical summary of commercial jet airplane accidents annually for the past 10 years on the basis of the occurrence categories defined by the CICTT(CAST/ICAO Common Taxonomy Team), and the number of occurrences is in order of loss of control(LOC-I), controlled flight into terrain(CFIT) and runway excursion (RE). Like the NTSB and the EASA, when fatal and non-fatal accidents are aggregated, though fatality rate is low, abnormal runway contact(ARC), system/component failure(SCF-PP/NP), ground handling(RAMP) rank high in the CICTT occurrence categories. With the less occurrence frequency, it is difficult to statistically analyze the aircraft accidents in our country, thus customarily the accidents and the serious incidents on aggregate are consolidated, and the statistical analysis is performed. This study categorizes the accidents and serious incidents to the domestic transportation aircraft in the past 10 years according to the CICTT occurrence categories, that is compared with foreign practices, and the implications have been discussed. From years 2001 through 2010, the accidents to the domestic transportation aircraft occurred in order of system failure(SCF-NP), ARC and power plant failure(SCF-PP), and when the accidents and the serious incidents are consolidated and analyzed, it is verified that a distribution appears similar to the European accident occurrence categories defined from 300 accident occurrence data.

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“…However, by looking at the OC associated with different subsets of accidents, it enables regulators and operators within those specific subsets to It is difficult to directly compare results for different subsets of accidents in terms of occurrence categories as these can vary greatly. For example, in a study comparing Korean accidents to the worldwide commercial jet statistics and EASA statistics [34], all three gave a different OC that was most frequent (SCF-PP, LOC-I, and ARC, respectively, for Korea, worldwide, and EASA). However, by looking at the OC associated with different subsets of accidents, it enables regulators and operators within those specific subsets to understand the nature of occurrences and respond to them accordingly.…”