HFACS Analysis for Investigating Human Errors in Flight Training Accidents

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confidence: 99%

Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Mental States of Airline Pilots in Turkey

Kılıç

2022

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“…Pilots are prone to making errors when they are ill (Johansson & Melin, 2018a) (Kilic, 2020a). There is an association between errors and adverse psychological and mental states of aircrew (e.g., sickness, stress, fatigue, loss of situational awareness and lack of vigilance) (Kilic & Gumus, 2020) (Kilic & Soran, 2019) (Kilic, 2022) Adverse physiological and mental states of the aircrew were attributed to 29% of training flight accidents (Kilic, 2019), 7% of air cargo accidents (Kilic & Gündogdu, 2020) and 16% of hot-air balloon accidents (Kilic, 2020b).…”

Section: Presenteeism and Aviationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…When a student pilot performs a training flight with health issues (e.g., headache, stomachache, inner ear infection, flu, vestibular neuritis and motion sickness), there may be deterioration in concentration and an increase in stress level that may impede flight safety (Orford & Silberman, 2008). It has been already reported that impaired concentration poses a greater safety risk for student pilots, their colleagues and for their flight schools (Kilic, 2019). Furthermore, sick students may endanger their peers due to spread of disease and decline in performance .…”

Section: Presenteeism and Aviationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Furthermore, presenteeism may be the origin of the existing illness to become more serious, aggression, fatigue, weak concentration, lack of motivation, and most importantly, accidents and errors due to dysfunction (Ulu et al, 2016). In this perspective, presenteeism may cause catastrophic results with loss of concentration if we consider that ab-initio pilots are inexperienced students (Kilic, 2019). It may be pointed out that presenteeism has worse effects than being absent at work on both the individual and the workplace.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Presenteeism Among Ab-initio Pilots in Turkey

Kılıç

TABAK

2022

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In this study, we set out to estimate the prevalence of presenteeism and to define its possible association with organizational factors, committing errors and stress among ab-initio pilots. Presenteeism is a major safety-related issue and has been extensively studied in a variety of occupation groups. As a cross-sectional study, a self-administered questionnaire was used to collect the data from ab-initio pilots. The participants assessed themselves on the Stanford Presenteeism Scale (SPS-6). Correlation analysis was performed to explore the association between organizational factors and presenteeism. Based on the findings, the prevalence of presenteeism was 29.1 percent among the ab-initio pilots (N=175). Furthermore, there was a strong association between training-related stress (p< 0.01) and presenteeism. The student pilots with presenteeism were found to make mistakes during flight. Better and effective supervision for ab-initio pilots was associated with lower levels of presenteeism, highlighting the need for a supportive and comfortable atmosphere in the flight deck in which ab-initio pilots may feel comfortable. The findings presented here may facilitate improvements in the field of aviation safety.

“…It has been reported that several contributing factors including weather, system/equipment malfunction, human error, and organizational factors give rise to accidents and incidents in commercial aviation [10] as well as in general aviation [11]. Among these contributing factors, human error is associated with the largest portion of commercial air carrier accidents (more than 75%) [12][13] [14].…”

Section: Commercial Air Carrier Accidentsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Application of HFACS to the Nighttime Aviation Accidents and Incidents

Kılıç¹,

Gümüş²

2020

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Commercial aviation accidents and incidents are more prevalent at the certain times of the day. Operational problems (e.g., night vision, flash blindness, black hole illusion, and reflection) faced by pilots while performing nighttime flights pose threats to flight safety. The present paper aims to examine the contributing factors to commercial aviation accidents occurred at night. In this paper, accident reports of 30 commercial airplane crashes occurred over the past five years were analyzed. The contributing factors of those accidents were examined by using HFACS (Human Factors Analysis and Classification System). The relative importance of the causal factors was determined. Literature reviews have indicated that no study has examined the causality of nighttime commercial aircraft accidents by using HFACS as a framework. It was found that physical environment was the most significant causal factor. Skill-based errors were second-highest contributing factors. Perceptual errors and decision errors were ranked as third-highest causal factors. We believe that our results may be useful for reducing the chances of human error and raising safety standards of commercial airline operations.