Definition of Investigative Areas for Human-Factor Aspects of Aircraft Accidents.

Fineberg, Michael L.; Woelfel, John C.; Ely, Richard; Smith, Marcia S.

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“…The USAF School of Aerospace Medicine, an element of the Human Systems Division, helped the Center with in-house and contracted efforts to define factors involved in mishaps and analytical techniques which might be used to examine data to determine contributing factors (Fineberg, et al, 1980). This early work was followed by a development program entitled the Human Oriented Mishap Reduction (HOMR) system.…”

Section: Aircraft Mishap Prevention Programmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…These developments increased system capability but also added complexity to the piloting task, including increased demands on the pilot's cognitive and decision-making abilities. This problem has been exacerbated further by the addition of low level operations to reduce the risk of detection and hostile fire (Fineberg, Woelfel, Ely, and Smith, 1980). The contribution of the human factor to mishaps was early recognized in the category of "pilot error."…”

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confidence: 99%

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Requirements for An Aircraft Mishap Analysis System

Courtright¹

1990

Proceedings of the Human Factors Society Annual Meeting

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As a result of long-standing, systematic mishap investigation and analysis practices, the U.S. Air Force has been able to achieve and maintain a consistently low level of aircraft mishaps. However, up to 90 percent of these mishaps are associated with human factors problems. In recognition of the need for better tools to identify the complex nature of human contributions to mishaps, the Air Force has established an Aircraft Mishap Prevention program to develop the capability to apply information gathering processes, sophisticated analysis techniques, and hypothesis generation support tools to help recognize and correct deficiencies in equipment design, training, and operational practices which contribute to mishaps. This presentation provides information on the scope, content, and approach to providing the expected full capability by 1993.One challenge in the design of the program features was the need to accommodate a range of analysts skilled in mishap investigation practices but naive with respect to human factors considerations in analysis. This will be met by incorporation of supporting skilled staff and special purpose software which will aid these analysts to identify and evaluate human factors considerations in individual mishaps and across all mishaps. This presentation reviews human factors considerations in the software support features which will assist the analysts perform analyses and develop and evaluate countermeasures. Considerations and cautions in developing selected human-computer interaction is reviewed, with attention given to features to be incorporated to lead the analyst and to provide him with questions and considerations which must be resolved before a workable hypothesis can be developed or evaluated.

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Section: Aircraft Mishap Prevention Programmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%