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Essay on Aviation Safety
Introduction
The aviation system is a technology-intensive, spatially distributed system in which skilled human managers and operators move passengers and cargo from place to place utilizing complex, variably automated machines. In no endeavor has technology been brought to bear more effectively than in the aviation enterprise, and no enterprise has more effectively stimulated the advance of technology.
In the space of a century, we have moved from wood and fabric gliders to aircraft carrying hundreds of people and tons of cargo halfway around the earth at near-sonic speeds in comfort and safety.
Aircraft automation is part of a vast movement to improve and control performance and risks in our so-called "advanced societies.
" Beyond the consequences for crews, automation is incorporated into the global evolution of these advanced societies as a tool providing people with more comfort and happiness, better performance, and fewer problems. But automation is also part of the aviation business and gives rise to permanent national and international competition between manufacturers. Inevitably accidents, incidents, and successes feed this competition and are overexploited by the press (Comm, Clare L., 1993, 77-88).
From a technical point of view, any new technology calls for a period of adaptation to eliminate residual problems and to allow users to adapt to it. This period can take several years, with successive cycles of optimization for design, training, and regulation. This was the case when jets replaced propeller planes.
The introduction of aircraft like the B707 or the B727 was major events in aviation. These cycles are invariably fraught with difficulties of all types including accidents. People do not yet know how to optimize complex systems and reach the maximum safety level without field experience. The major reason for this long adaptive process is the need for harmonization between the new design on one hand and....
