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- Title
Amphibious Airplane Accidents: An Exploratory Analysis.
- Authors
de Voogt, Alex; Campos, Amy; Lu, Yi
- Abstract
Featured Application: Provides mitigating strategies for amphibious aircraft accidents. Causes and contributing factors of amphibious airplane accidents are examined by comparing the proportion of fatal accidents for different causes of accidents, with a focus on landings on water and low-level flying maneuvers. A set of 183 accidents involving amphibious planes from 2005 to 2020 was extracted from the National Transportation Safety Board's online database. Amphibious airplane accidents are reported to be fatal in 34% of cases, which is higher than the average of 20% for general aviation. Logistic regression analysis shows that the maneuvering flight phase and decision-making factors are significantly more often associated with fatal accidents than other flight phases and causes. In addition, the number of accidents associated with decision-making factors significantly increased during the studied time period. Amphibious airplanes benefit from accident analysis despite the absence of denominator data and the limitations of most general aviation accident reports. Intentional low-level flying is shown to be a central area of concern that may be addressed at the operational as well as the training level. Landing accidents could be avoided by introducing additional warning systems and training regarding (retractable) landing gear as well as general awareness training of decision-making during landings on water.
- Subjects
UNITED States. National Transportation Safety Board; AIRCRAFT accidents; SEAPLANES; LOGISTIC regression analysis; TRANSPORTATION safety measures; LANDING (Aeronautics); ONLINE databases
- Publication
Applied Sciences (2076-3417), 2023, Vol 13, Issue 22, p12224
- ISSN
2076-3417
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/app132212224