Analysis of Continuing Airworthiness Occurrences under the Prism of a Learning Framework

Abstract

In this research paper fifteen mandatory occurrence reports are analysed. The purpose of this is to highlight the learning potential incidents such as these may possess for organisations involved in aircraft maintenance and continuing airworthiness management activities. The outputs from the mandatory occurrence reports are aligned in tabular form for ease of inclusion in human factors’ continuation training material. A new incident learning archetype is also introduced, which intends to represent how reported incidents can be managed and translated into lessons in support of preventing event recurrence. This ‘learning product’ centric model visually articulates activities such as capturing the reported information, establishing causation and the iterative nature of developing a learning product.

Safety Management System and Hazards in the Aircraft Maintenance Industry: A Systematic Literature Review

“…Continuing with the content analysis, the characteristics of selected studies are described by referring to two research articles (Clare & Kourousis, 2021a, 2021b…”

Learning from Past in the Aircraft Maintenance Industry: An Empirical Evaluation in the Safety Management Framework

“…Safety Communication: The extent to which safety information drawn from past safety investigations is organized in an organizational context for communicating to maintenance staff through emails, newsletters, safety circulars, bulletins, etc., and safety training, human factor training, continuity training, safety meetings, etc. [1,36], [20,25,37]…”

“…Organizational Commitment to Safety Communication: The extent to which resources regarding time, technology, and money are allocated to safety communication. [21,37] Learning Indicators to LPSIs. [13,25] A. Tyagi et al…”

“…'Safety communication' is a formally structured process, and in the aircraft maintenance industry, safety information drawn from safety investigations is communicated to stakeholders in written form through emails, newsletters, safety circulars, bulletins, etc., and audiovisual modes of safety training, human factor training, continuity training, safety meetings, etc., wherein each method of communication have barriers as argued by Refs. [1,20,25,36,37]. Therefore, it is hypothesized that:…”

Special Issue: Civil and Military Airworthiness: Recent Developments and Challenges (Volume II)

“…This Special Issue is focused on safety themes with implications on airworthiness management. It offers a diverse set of analyses on aircraft maintenance accidents [1][2][3][4], empirical and systematic investigations on important continuing airworthiness matters [5][6][7] and research studies on methodologies for risk and safety assessment in continuing and initial airworthiness [8][9][10]. Overall, this collection of papers is a valuable addition to the published literature, and I am confident that the readers of Aerospace will find that useful.…”