Aviation Safety

Title : Aviation Safety

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Aviation Safety

Aviation safety revolves around the tasks of identifying , investigation and evaluating the causes of aircrafts ' safety failures and carrying out research on how aviation mishaps resulting from negligence or inadequate safety programs can be prevented and mitigated . The increasing number of aircrafts ' accidents over the last few years has highlighted the importance of ensuring aviation safety for the passengers . The September 11 , 2001 incident of plane collision with the twin towers in United States of America jolted the world into questioning

the safety in travelling through aircrafts . The revenues of the airline companies nosedived in the wake of the newfound skepticism in prospective passengers . Failure in aviation safety earns itself a lot of media coverage , thus impacting greatly upon the demand of people to travel by airlines . Many other accidents have done little in reassuring the general public towards the adequacy of aviation safety

Causes of Accidents

The causes of such accidents can be many and varied , ranging from poor weather conditions , to pilot error and from clashes of the plane with birds to natural phenomena , such as lightning , ice or snow . Pilot error is commonly called human error and account for more than 50 of the airline accidents . Other reasons include engineering defaults mechanical failure , terrorism , sabotage and other causes (Chandler 1996

Even though the most significant cause of airline accidents is due to pilot error - the aircraft design plays a great part in determining the safety of an aircraft . If...