27th Congress of International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences, 19 - 24 September 2010, Nice, France
Paper ICAS 2010-10.10.1

ASSESSING ORGANISATIONAL FACTORS IN AIRCRAFT ACCIDENTS: METHODOLOGIES AND LIMITATIONS

J. Debrincat, C. Bil, G. Clark
RMIT Univ., Australia

Keywords: accident prevention, reliability, maintainability

This paper discusses tools which can identify key organisational factors which contribute to aviation accidents. The research case study is a thoroughly-investigated helicopter accident, used to determine the extent to which analytical and visualisation tools could be used to assess maintenance organisational issues which contributed to prevention of an accident.

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