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FLIGHT SAFETY
Technology and the Human Factor
A pilot’s perspective
by
Prof. dr ir J.A. Mulder
Delft University of Technology
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Contents
• How safe is it?
• The common causes of accidents
• The Flight Deck: past, present and future….
• Automation and Situation Awareness
• Review of a famous accident
• Lessons learnt
• How safe will it be?
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Dependent Failures
Independent Events
A B
P (A & B) = P (A) · P (B)
Dependent Events
P (A & B) > P (A) · P (B)
A B
P (A & B) = P (A) · P (B/A)
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The pilots of an Air France Airbus A330 that
crashed into the Atlantic Ocean two years ago
apparently became distracted with faulty
airspeed indicators and failed to properly deal
with other vital systems, including adjusting
engine thrust, according to people familiar with
preliminary findings from the plane's recorders.
The Wall Street Journal (2011 May 24, Pasztor,
Michaels)
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•The aircraft slowed to a stall shortly after the
autopilot disconnected. The pilots faced a
series of automation failures and disconnects
related to the plane's airspeed sensors.
•Within 4 min 28 sec 16 ACARS fault messages
were sent to home base on faults resulting
from these unreliable airspeed sensors (display
indications, auto thrust, TCAS, …..).
•Loss of Situation Awareness.
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More examples of common cause accidents
JA8119, 1985
UA232, 1989
OO-DLL, 2003
LY1862, 1992
El Al LY 1862, 1992: Pylon failure DHL OO-DLL: Hit by missile
Japan Airlines JA8119: Lost vertical tail United Airlines UA232: Engine desintegration
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Cockpit Douglas DC-3, first modern transport aircraft
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Flight deck Lockheed Constellation, 4 man crew
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Flight EngineerNavigator
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Flight deck Boeing 737-300, FMC
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Flight deck Boeing 767-300, FMC, EFIS
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Rasmussen’s ‘Skills, Rules, Knowledge’
framework, from pilot to supervisor
• Skill based behavior
• Rule based behavior
• Knowledge based
behavior
• Manual control, effort, training, the pilot as ‘ace’
• Handling the auto pilot, procedures, check lists
• Feed Flight Management System (FMC) with information, direct the flight through the the coupled FMC
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Invest in pilot skills!
Advanced flight simulators!
Lufthansa_Airbus_320_crosswind_landing_wing_strike.wmv
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So, we have to do better!
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Better Safety & Performance by:
• Technical advances in– Aerodynamics, structural design & materials, systems
– Engines
– Avionics (Fly by Wire, ‘Glass cockpit’, triple redundant auto flight systems with autoland, Flight Management System (FMS), TCAS, GPWS)
• Human Factors– Crew Resource Management (CRM)
– Automation
– Situation awareness
– Training, checking
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Flight deck (r)evolution
LOW SITUATION
AWARENESS
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Ironies of automation
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Aircraft are open systemselectricity
waterin
waterout
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Aircraft are open systems
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But … automation will proceed
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Crew Resource Management (CRM)
• 80% of non-technical accidents due CRM failure:
‘individual pilots do not crash airplanes, crews do’
• Good leadership:
– be a strong leader, but not autocratic
– delegation of responsibilities
– communicate, support, joint decision making
• Pilot training in CRM
– missions in flight simulator
– videotaped sessions, debriefing
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Human-Machine Interface (1)
Intuitive 3D perspective display
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Human-Machine Interface (2)
low situation awareness
Display of commands, do
what you are told….
CPA
PZ
IF (tCPA< look-ahead) AND (|CPA|< 5 NM) THENconflict = TRUE
ELSEconflict = FALSE
5 NM
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Human-Machine Interface (3)
optimal situation awareness
Ecological display, see
what you should do!
min
max
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Last resort: ‘Care-free’ handling and navigation!
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On October 4th 1992 a Boeing 747-200F
freighter aircraft, Flight LY 1862, departing
from Schiphol, crashed into an apartment
building in the Bijlmer neighborhood of
Amsterdam killing 43 people.
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Flight LY 1862 failures
• Structural failure pylon eng # 3 due to fatique
• Destruction of wing pylon eng # 4
• Wing leading edge damaged
• Loss of hydraulic systems 3 and 4
• Loss of electrical systems
• Partial and complete loss of control surfaces
• Reduced thrust, increased aerodynamic drag
• Asymmetrical thrust, aerodynamic asymmetry
• Asymmetrical mass distribution
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Route to disaster
Flight 1862, Amsterdam, October 4th, 1992
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Failure mode analysisEl Al Flight 1862 Failure Mode Configuration
Aircraft Systems
Hydraulic systems 3 and 4 off
Engine 1 and 2 thrust asymmetry
Lower rudder lag
Mass Properties
Engine no. 3 and 4 weight loss, 4,014 kg each
Pylon no. 3 and 4 weight loss, ± 1,000 kg each
Lateral center of gravity displacement
Total weight loss: 10,0028 kg
Aerodynamics
Lift loss due to wing damage (∆Lwing)
Rolling moment due to wing damage (∆Lwing)
Drag due to wing damage (∆Dwing)
Yawing moment due to wing damage (∆Nwing)
Pitching moment due to wing damage (∆Mwing)
Right inboard aileron and spoiler 10 and 11aerodynamic efficiency loss
Control surface lost
50% Hinge moment loss / half trim rate
Control surface available
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∆∆∆∆Dwing
Yββββ
T1
T2
NT + ∆∆∆∆Nwing
Nββββ + Nδδδδr
ββββ
V
Yδδδδrδδδδr
W*sin(φφφφ)
∆∆∆∆Lwing + Lδδδδr
φφφφ
W*sin(φφφφ)
Yδδδδr
W
∆∆∆∆Lwing
Flight 1862 damaged aircraft flight mechanics
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What was learnt?
• Extreme example of common cause
• Situation awareness was poor on aircraft status, lateral navigation and vertical navigation (kinetic and potential energy management)
• Unaware of reduced safe flight envelope
• Workload (manual control) prevented ‘high level’ decision making
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Defenses against Common Cause
failures
•Improved design, materials, maintenance, systems
•Automation to reduce crew workload
•Focus on ways to improve situation awareness
•Crew resource Management & training
•Advanced measures which will exploit (remaining)
physical options for survival in case of….
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Advanced Flight Control: YES!
• All transport aircraft will be ‘Fly by Wire’
• Much redundancy in sensors, systems, control
effectors, aerodynamics, computers (infinite capacity)
• Controllers work with nonlinear aircraft dynamic
models (NDI)
• On-line model identification, sensor integrity checks,
use all information to estimate state
• Adaptation, reconfiguration, control allocation, keep
aircraft in computed adapted safe flight envelope
• Care free maneuvering, navigation
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How safe will it be?
• Automation (and systems)!
• Need still Human Pilot, open system
• Support the pilot through improved Situation
Awareness
• The unthinkable is bound to happen
sometime. Not 100% but close, very close.