This investigation focuses on the identification and analyses of factors that are potentially associated with Controlled Flight Into Terrain (CFIT) accidents involving air taxi, regional and major carriers. The study considered 156 fatal CFIT accidents that occurred in the 1988-1994 time frame. Contributory factors related to flight crew, environment, (organizational) have been analyzed. Results indicate that Africa and Latin America are the ICAO regions with the highest CFIT risk for major operators. Descent and approach phase accidents accounted for around 70% of the total sample. Almost 60% of the approach accidents involve non-precision approaches. A high proportion of the accidents occurred in decision making and monitoring/challenging were the dominant crew error types. The data shows that one-fifth of the accidents involved inadvertent VFR flight into IMC.


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    Title :

    Controlled Flight into Terrain (CFIT) Accidents of Air Taxi, Regional and Major Operators


    Contributors:
    R. Khatwa (author) / A. L. C. Roelen (author)

    Publication date :

    1997


    Size :

    24 pages


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English




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