Voluntary safety reporting is one method by which aviation personnel can report safety issues to their airline and the Federal Aviation Administration. The Aviation Safety Reporting System (ASRS) is a program managed by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Ames Research Center. This study reviewed flight attendant reports from the ASRS database to identify the frequency of fatigue reports and the conditions under which fatigue occurred. During June 2008, 2,628 cabin crew reports were downloaded from the NASA ASRS Web site for reports made between January 1990 and December 2007. CAMI researchers reviewed each fullform report narrative for possible contributors to fatigue, or indicators of fatigue. Although the overall number of flight attendant ASRS reports for which full-form coding was completed has decreased over the last 3 years, both total flight attendant reporting and the number of full-form narratives related to fatigue have increased substantially. This voluntary data allows regulators and operators to discover potential problems in the aviation industry before they result in a mishap. The results of this review indicate that flight attendant fatigue may be occurring more frequently and warrant more attention.


    Access

    Access via TIB

    Check availability in my library


    Export, share and cite



    Title :

    Flight Attendant Fatigue. Part IV. Analysis of Incident Reports


    Contributors:
    K. Holcomb (author) / K. Avers (author) / L. Dobbins (author) / J. Banks (author) / L. Blackwell (author)

    Publication date :

    2009


    Size :

    37 pages


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English




    Flight Attendant Fatigue

    T. E. Nesthus / D. J. Schroeder / M. M. Connors et al. | NTIS | 2007


    Flight Attendant Fatigue: A Quantitative Review of Flight Attendant Comments

    K. B. Avers / D. Nei / S. J. King et al. | NTIS | 2011


    Flight Attendant Fatigue, Part 1: National Duty, Rest, and Fatigue Survey

    K. B. Avers / S. J. King / T. E. Nesthus et al. | NTIS | 2009



    FLIGHT ATTENDANT STATIONS

    SAE Technical Papers | 1994