Correlation Analysis of Navy Flight Mishaps
Abstract
Flight mishaps are a crucial part of military aviation communities' operations because they negatively impact our military. The U.S. Navy's Naval Safety Center Annual Reports document mishap matters to include total mishap numbers each year, and aircraft model. The reports display whether the current year's mishaps have increased or decreased over the previous five years, but fail to provide any further analysis regarding correlations related to mishaps. The purpose of this research is to conduct a correlation analysis on the classes of flight mishaps through supervised learning techniques (i.e., Random Forest and Multinomial Logistic Regression analyses) to identify highly correlated variables related to mishap Classes A, B, and C. Naval Safety Command provided 10 years of flight mishap reporting data, which contained 754 observations with 13 variables. We found the "mishap type" and "aircraft model" variables correlate to the flight mishap classes the most, when predicting flight mishap classes. Mishap type is used to standardize mishap reporting and data collection; based on the Naval Aviation Safety Management System, there are 21 mishap types that may be selected during the mishap investigation process. Aircraft model describes the specific aircraft platform(s) that is involved in a mishap, including 26 aircraft models. Our correlation analysis provides the first step towards finding out the root causes of the flight mishaps and offers insights for future researchers.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jun 01, 2023
- Accession Number
- AD1213516
Entities
People
- Ho K. Kang
Organizations
- Naval Postgraduate School