Two Decades of Air Carrier Jet Operation,

Abstract

AGARD and the Flight Mechanics Panel, in holding this third conference on aircraft accidents, operations and safety have recognized the close relationship between civil and military aviation safety problems. This presentation examines the accident record of the world fleet of air carrier jet aircraft from 1960 to 1981. Comparisons of total accidents, fatal accidents, and hull losses for this time period are reviewed against numbers of departures and hours flown. It is shown that there is a close correlation between fatal accidents and hull losses and that there has been a general stabilizing of the accident rate in the past decade of two to four accidents (hull losses) per million departures with the probability that, if no changes are introduced, this rate will remain essentially unchanged. (Author)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 01, 1983
Accession Number
ADP002698

Entities

People

  • E. C. Wood
  • G. P. Bates

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Accidents
  • Aircrafts
  • Aviation Accidents
  • Aviation Safety
  • Jet Aircraft
  • Jet Transport Aircraft
  • Mechanics
  • Military Aviation
  • Probability
  • Safety
  • Vehicles

Readers

  • Aerospace Engineering
  • Aviation Safety Risk Assessment.
  • Strategic Security Studies