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- Title
A Review of General Aviation Safety (1984-2017).
- Authors
Boyd, Douglas D.
- Abstract
INTRODUCTION: General aviation includes all civilian aviation apart from operations involving paid passenger transport. Unfortunately, this category of aviation holds a lackluster safety record, accounting for 94% of civil aviation fatalities. In 2014, of 1143 general aviation accidents, 20% were fatal compared with 0 of 29 airline mishaps in the United States. Herein, research findings over the past 30 yr will be reviewed. Accident risk factors (e.g., adverse weather, geographical region, post-impact fire, gender differences) will be discussed. The review will also summarize the development and implementation of stringent crashworthiness designs with multi-axis dynamic testing and head-injury protection and its impact on mitigating occupant injury severity. The benefits and drawbacks of new technology and human factor considerations associated with increased general aviation automation will be debated. Data on the safety of the aging general aviation population and increased drug usage will also be described. Finally, areas in which general aviation occupant survival could be improved and injury severity mitigated will be discussed with the view of equipping aircraft with 1) crash-resistant fuel tanks to reduce post-impact conflagration; 2) after-market ballistic parachutes for older aircraft; and 3) current generation electronic locator beacons to hasten site access by first responders.
- Subjects
COMMERCIAL aeronautics safety measures; AIRCRAFT accidents; ACCIDENT prevention
- Publication
Aerospace Medicine & Human Performance, 2017, Vol 88, Issue 7, p657
- ISSN
2375-6314
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3357/AMHP.4862.2017