A preliminary investigation of maintenance contributions to commercial air transport accidents

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dc.contributor.authorFatima Najeeb Khan
dc.contributor.authorAyiei Ayiei
dc.contributor.authorJohn Murray
dc.contributor.authorGlenn Baxter
dc.contributor.authorGraham Wild
dc.contributor.correspondenceG. Wild; School of Engineering and Information Technology, University of New South Wales, Canberra, 2612, Australia; email: g.wild@adfa.edu.au
dc.date.accessioned2025-03-10T07:36:06Z
dc.date.available2025-03-10T07:36:06Z
dc.date.issued2020
dc.description.abstractAircraft maintenance includes all the tasks needed to ensure an aircraftÕs continuing airworthiness. Accidents that result from these maintenance activities can be used to assess safety. This research seeks to undertake a preliminary investigation of accidents that have maintenance contributions. An exploratory design was utilized, which commenced with a content analysis of the accidents with maintenance contributions (n = 35) in the official ICAO accident data set (N = 1277), followed by a quantitative ex-post facto study. Results showed that maintenance contributions are involved in 2.8 ± 0.9% of ICAO official accidents. Maintenance accidents were also found to be more likely to have one or more fatalities (20%), compared to all ICAO official accidents (14.7%). The number of accidents with maintenance contributions per year was also found to have reduced over the period of the study; this rate was statistically significantly greater than for all accidents (5%/year, relative to 2%/year). Results showed that aircraft between 10 and 20 years old were most commonly involved in accidents with maintenance contributions, while aircraft older than 18 years were more likely to result in a hull loss, and aircraft older than 34 years were more likely to result in a fatality. © 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland.
dc.identifier.citationAerospace
dc.identifier.doi10.3390/aerospace7090129
dc.identifier.issn22264310
dc.identifier.scopus2-s2.0-85094842764
dc.identifier.urihttps://repository.dusit.ac.th//handle/123456789/4791
dc.languageEnglish
dc.publisherMDPI AG
dc.rightsAll Open Access; Gold Open Access; Green Open Access
dc.rights.holderScopus
dc.subjectAccidents
dc.subjectAircraft
dc.subjectAirworthiness
dc.subjectAviation
dc.subjectMaintenance
dc.subjectSafety
dc.titleA preliminary investigation of maintenance contributions to commercial air transport accidents
dc.typeArticle
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oaire.citation.issue9
oaire.citation.startPage1
oaire.citation.volume7
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