Aviation Accident Statistics

Aviation Accident Statics

Edwin Martinez

When you hold the lives of hundreds of people at a time, one of the most important things to be considered is the safety of everyone on board, one flight at a time. Having safety in mind, there are safety regulations and backgrounds set in place for crude and real accident/safety points. Safety can be improved by learning how to improve a process that is already in place and by a process that has failed. There are two ways that data reporting happens, either by a voluntary report or by a mandatory report. The Boeing company has a very easily accessible database that anyone can access and publish any safety concerns they may feel is important, Boeing in turn publishes an annual report called “Statistical summary of commercial jet airplane accidents”

Many agencies play an important part of safety reporting, but one important agency is the manufactures. Manufactures can always do a voluntary report on a unsafe part or process but they must participate in a accident investigation that involves their part/assembly. The manufacturers part that failed during an accident investigation is solely responsible to determine how to improve this process but the NTSB will decide the outcome and fix of the failure.

Databases has been determined to being the key to safety, airlines report directly to the manufactures about process that can be improved or seem faulty in anyway. The data collection is not a perfect process especially if there has not been an incident/accident pertaining to the faulty process but databases prove useful when it can determine trends that has been flagged or highlighted by human research.

Three specific data collectors of accident statics and reports are the manufacturers, Boeings, and the United States and International Accident Statistics. These three agencies are solely responsible to maintain statistics and safety related operations that solely apply to safety. NAICS will soon be another...