Accident Analysis Techniques

ACCIDENT ANALYSIS TECHNIQUES

ACCIDENT ANALYSIS TECHNIQUES
Executive summary
Accidents may occur due to different reasons. These reasons or causes can be technical,
organizational, governmental, environmental, human errors or personal, and many more.
However, when an accident has already occurred, the responsible authorities need to presents
reports issuing the details of the accident, and they also have to present graphical representations
of the events leading to the accident to determine the risks factors and eliminate them so that the
incident is not repeated. Therefore, when the plane Avions de Transport Régional (ATR 42)
crashed at the Lubbock airport in Texas, the authorities presented a detailed report, which has
been used to prepare a graphical representation of the event through AcciMapping and HFCS.
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Table of Contents
Introduction...................................................................................................................... 3
Main body.........................................................................................................................3
Conclusion..................................................................................................................... 13
Reference list................................................................................................................. 14
Appendix........................................................................................................................ 16
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Introduction
The report deals with the requirements of re-analyze the Avions de Transport Régional (ATR 42)
at Lubbock, Texas on January 27, 2009, using two techniques: AcciMaps and Human Factors
Analysis and Classification System (HFACS). AcciMap is a graph that represents a particular
accident scenario with the causal flow of events of the planning, management, and regulating
bodies contributing to the incident. The Human Factors Analysis and Classification System
(HFACS) is a wide human fault framework that was used by the US Air Force in investigating
and analyzing human factors responsible for accidental incidents of the aviation industry. This
paper uses them to show the sequence of the accident and the issues of the operational units too.
Main body
From the accident of the Avions de Transport Régional (ATR 42) at Lubbock, Texas on January
27, 2009, it has been noted that Empire Airlines flight 8284 and ATR 42 had collided on the
runway at the airport of Lubbock Preston Smith. The airplane was run by Empire Airlines, and it
is registered to FedEx Corporation. To minimize accident, an organization should take some
safety measurements. In the above-mentioned report, the two techniques namely HFACS and
AcciMaps had been taken for monitoring.
The issues or notions of safety involved the participation of the crewmembers and their actions
to respond to the anomalies (Ancel et al. 2015). The flight was dispatched into the freezing
drizzle of the weather, and the unstabilized approached to continue as well. There were nine
recommendations of safety that were addressed to the Federal Aviation Administration for the
flight that was registered as 14 Code of Federal Regulations Part 121 as a supplementary cargo
flight.
Whenever there is an accident in any part of the world and any field, it has to be assessed
properly so that necessary precautions can be adopted to prevent it to happen for the next time
(Anderson and Vasconcelos, 2017). The accident that has been discussed here was reported by
the National Transportation Safety Board on the 27th of January in the year 2009. The flight
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