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Brace Position to Improve Survival from the Aircraft Accident (항공기 재난 생존성 제고를 위한 충격방지자세 검토)

  • Woo, Seungmoc
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society of Disaster Information Conference
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    • 2023.11a
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    • pp.43-44
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    • 2023
  • 항공기 사고시에 탑승객의 생존성을 제고하기 위한 방법으로 충돌/충격 전, 충격방지자세 Brace Position를 취하도록 하는 것이 전 세계 항공사의 공통적인 안전 매뉴얼이다. 해당 매뉴얼은 1980년대 미국 NTSB에서 항공기 사고를 조사하면서 생존 특성을 연구한 이후 처음 정형화 되었고 이후 현재까지 일반적으로 적용되고 있다. 그러나 허드슨강의 기적으로 불리는 2009년 1월 15일 US Airways 1549편의 비상착수 사고에서 항공기의 큰 구조적인 손상이 없었음에도 불구하고 탑승객 일부가 중상을 입는 결과를 초래하여 이를 계기로 기존의 충격방지자세 적절성을 재검토하여 개선하는 움직임이 있었다. 이에 관련 연구자료를 분석하여 국내 적용 방안을 살피고 또한 추가적인 개선방안을 제시하고자 한다.

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A Study on the Legal Issues relating to the Aircraft Accident and its Investigation (항공기사고와 사고조사에 관한 법적 제 문제에 대한 고찰)

  • Kim, Jong-Bok
    • The Korean Journal of Air & Space Law and Policy
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    • v.19 no.2
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    • pp.137-162
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    • 2004
  • Generally the aircraft accident caused a great loss of lives, severe property damages including aircraft's total loss and thus, affect enormous emotional and economic damages to the public. We, therefore, should try every efforts to prevent the re-occurrence of aircraft accident by examining the cause of accident closely and discovering it through aircraft accident investigation. Though the object of an accident investigation is not to apportion blame but to discover a cause or causes of an accident to prevent future accidents, the cause of an accident would play a vital role in determining the liability of the carrier, legal relationship with the third party and jurisdiction, etc. in the aviation litigation. Therefore, it is very important that aircraft accident investigation are carried out by a professional and independent agency. Also, it needs for us to be careful in applying investigation results in the courts not to be deterrent to discovering the cause of accident. Korea now has the Aviation Accident Investigation Agency Board under the Korean Ministry of Construction and Transportation, but unfortunately it is often pointed out that it lacks professionalism and independency due to the bureaucratism of the Government. We, therefore, should establish a professional and independent aircraft accident investigation agency like United States' NTSB and reflect the issues mentioned-above on the new Act.

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A Study for Flight Times and Ages affects on Situation Awareness Evaluation of Helicopter Pilots (비행시간과 연령이 헬리콥터 조종사의 상황인식 평가에 미치는 영향에 관한 연구)

  • Choi, Sung-Ho;Lee, Yeong-Heok;Choi, Yeon-Chul;Lee, Meong-Hyun;Park, Sun-Rae
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Aviation and Aeronautics
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    • v.19 no.1
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    • pp.66-73
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    • 2011
  • According to U.S. NTSB, from 1989 to 1992, Situation Awareness(SA) was a major factor causing 80% of all aircraft accidents in scheduled airlines. Therefore, the prevention of accidents through effective training in SA became a pivot in aviation safety. Furthermore, during the past 10 years, since all helicopter accidents in Korea were caused by the factors related to SA, an appropriate countermeasure has been required. This study, which uses survey data, examines various factors related to SA that could affect helicopter pilots. Common characteristics of situation awareness factors are that the result from the independent variables which are flight time, duty period and age of a first officer is statistically significant with the result from the independent variables of an instructor pilot's. However, only experience is statistically significant independent variable for factors influencing decision making in emergency situations, but anxiety, expectation and comprehension are not significant.

Analysis of risk factors of the fisherman's in coastal purse seine fishery using the accident compensation insurance proceeds payment data of NFFC (수협 어선원 재해보상보험 자료를 이용한 연안선망어업 위험요인 분석)

  • CHOI, Kyu-Suk;LEE, Chun-Woo;PARK, Su-bong;JANG, Yong-Suk;LEE, Yoo-Won
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Fisheries and Ocean Technology
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    • v.56 no.4
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    • pp.340-346
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    • 2020
  • In this study, the risk factors of coastal purse seine fisherman were analyzed through a survey of fishery workers of coastal purse seine fishery and the accident compensation insurance data of the fisheries workers of the National Federation of Fisheries Cooperatives (NFFC). The classified fishing operation accident data was analyzed through 4M (Man, Machine, Media, Management) model of the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) and the accident prevention measures were presented using Harvey's 3E (Engineering, Education, Enforcement) model. The rate of accidents on coastal purse seinens each year was 75.8‰, 36.7‰ and 74.8‰ from 2015 to 2017. The accident frequency resulting from slipping was the highest, and the risk of a contact with gear was low. When comparing each insurance data, the average value of the contact with gear accident was the highest. This research result is expected to be important data in identifying and preventing safety hazards of coastal purse seiner fisherman in the future.

A case study on the Occurrence Category of aircraft accidents and serious incidents in Korea in the 2000's (2000년대 국내 항공기 사고·준사고 발생유형 사례연구)

  • Choi, Young-Jae;Ahn, Jae-Hyung;You, Kyung-In;Park, Jung-Gown
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Aviation and Aeronautics
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    • v.21 no.4
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    • pp.119-125
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    • 2013
  • Since year 2001 to the present time, the aircraft accidents and serious incidents in our country have surpassed 150 occurrences. The Boeing has published the statistical summary of commercial jet airplane accidents annually for the past 10 years on the basis of the occurrence categories defined by the CICTT(CAST/ICAO Common Taxonomy Team), and the number of occurrences is in order of loss of control(LOC-I), controlled flight into terrain(CFIT) and runway excursion (RE). Like the NTSB and the EASA, when fatal and non-fatal accidents are aggregated, though fatality rate is low, abnormal runway contact(ARC), system/component failure(SCF-PP/NP), ground handling(RAMP) rank high in the CICTT occurrence categories. With the less occurrence frequency, it is difficult to statistically analyze the aircraft accidents in our country, thus customarily the accidents and the serious incidents on aggregate are consolidated, and the statistical analysis is performed. This study categorizes the accidents and serious incidents to the domestic transportation aircraft in the past 10 years according to the CICTT occurrence categories, that is compared with foreign practices, and the implications have been discussed. From years 2001 through 2010, the accidents to the domestic transportation aircraft occurred in order of system failure(SCF-NP), ARC and power plant failure(SCF-PP), and when the accidents and the serious incidents are consolidated and analyzed, it is verified that a distribution appears similar to the European accident occurrence categories defined from 300 accident occurrence data.

A Comparative Study on the Investigation and Inquiry System of Marine Accidents (해양사고 조사ㆍ심판제도의 비교연구)

  • Jong, Jae-Yong;Na, Song-Jin
    • Journal of Navigation and Port Research
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    • v.27 no.2
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    • pp.129-135
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    • 2003
  • This study describes and discusses the marine accidents investigation & inquiry system of Korea, U.K., U.S.A., the Netherlands and Japan. As the results of the comparison of them, the following recommendations are made with respect to improve the system in Korea. (1) The Agency should be independent from the central Government with respect to the budged, personnel management and a agency building. (2) The inspection function and judgment function should be divided into separate Agency. (3) The Agency should has a recommendation right to Government agency according to the results of investigation. (4) The composition of inspectors & judges must be diversified including navigation, marine engineering and naval architecture background. (5) The Agency should have co-operative system with the Marine Police Agency. (6) International affairs division should be included in the Agency to promote international relations.

GNSS Center of Excellence for Safety Critical Applications, Simulation, Test & Certifications - GAUSS

  • Evers, H.
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Navigation and Port Research Conference
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    • v.2
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    • pp.153-155
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    • 2006
  • A major advantage of the area in and around Braunschweig is its concentration of major research institutes and small to large enterprises dealing with different modes of transportation. For many years, aviation has been a particular focus. The research institutes have aircraft and helicopters equipped especially for research projects, as well as other laboratory equipment, allowing simulation and testing of air traffic application both virtually and on real aircraft. In addition, with the Luftfahrtbundesamt (equivalent organization to FAA) and the Bundesstelle $f{\"{u}}r$ Flugunfalluntersuchung (equivalent to NTSB) both located at the Research Airport, it enables direct contact with two key air-traffic safety authorities. The institutes of DLR and the Technical University of Braunschweig are very active in rail transportation applications. Cooperation with the market leader in rail automation - Siemens Rail Automation, also located in Braunschweig - and with other companies in the Braunschweig region means that safety-critical road applications and mobility research is available due to the activities of a number of institutes. Cooperation with Volkswagen (VW) and other companies in the region ensure access to the market leaders' know-how in this sector. Current European activities within framework of the Galileo project offer particularly good opportunities for the Research Airport to leverage its expertise and position itself internationally as a specialist in safety-critical transport applications - the centre is an initiative of Niedersachsen and the Ministry of Economic Affairs, Labour and Transport Location and navigation plays a central role in all modes of transport - air, road and rail. The market is being revolutionized by the increasing integration of GNSS. The realization of the Galileo system will provide additional opportunities for the Research Airport: Galileo as a civil operated system offers service guarantees especially in the area of safety-critical applications in transportation. Notably standards, processes and authorizations related to the certification of safety-critical applications in the areas of air, road and rail transportation are still to be determined. GAUSS, located at the Research Airport Braunschweig, as an European centre of excellence for simulation, testing and certification of safety-critical applications can offer its expertise to validate the services guaranteed by the Galileo concessionaire.

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A Study on Takeoff Decision Speed Improvement of Air Transport Airplane (운송용항공기의 이륙단념속도 개선에 관한 연구)

  • Noh, Kun-Doo;Choi, Youn-Chul;Yoo, Kwang-Eui
    • Journal of Korean Society of Transportation
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    • v.23 no.4 s.82
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    • pp.7-16
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    • 2005
  • Rejected Takeoff Accidents are not common. but if occurred, it leads to big disaster From the year of 1959, when Jet Transport service opened, to the year of 2000, Rejected Takeoff accidents/incidents occurred total of 94 cases. All cases led to overrun, and major cause is to initiate stopping maneuvers over $V_1$, takeoff decision speed, according to National Transport Safety Board of America. Similar results are represented in Aviation Safety Reporting System of National Aeronautics and Space Administration. So I believe that it is worth studying if Airplane Flight Manual, which is the reference Performance criteria, is appropriate to operations of line pilots. The definition of $V_1$ has been revised a couple of times and Rejected Takeoff Certification Standards for Transport Airplanes was changed in 1998. It shows that up to now there are some portions unreasonable. This study focused on gathering the pilot's tendency for current Rejected Takeoff Procedures of K airlines and analyze the factors they concern. I chose B777 airplane and actually measured the recognition and reaction time of the rejected takeoff transitions through Simulators. And compared the results with the data of flight test and Airplane Flight Manual.

Flight Test Hazard Identification (비행시험 위해요인 식별 연구)

  • Kim, Mu-Geun;Lim, In-Kyu;Yoo, Beong-Seon;Kang, Ja-Young
    • Journal of Advanced Navigation Technology
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    • v.22 no.4
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    • pp.279-287
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    • 2018
  • Flight tests for aircraft development and certification have higher air accidents risk than other aerospace industries. Accordingly risk identification necessary for risk management in the safety management system is a very important factor in preventing similar air accidents during flight tests. But internationally issued accident statistics are usually confined to commercial transport aircraft and they do not reflect characteristics of flight tests, also databases to hazards identification during flight tests are not established or available in Republic of Korea. Therefore, we identified flight test procedures and traced the major causes of aviation accidents based on the statistics and preventive materials for risk management which were issued by international organizations and advanced countries of aviation. A total of 312 final reports classified as flight test among air accident/incident database held by U.S. NTSB were researched and about 200 flight test hazard were identified. The results of this study will be used as basic data for establishing the safety management system of the national comprehensive flight performance test site.

Privilege and Immunity of Information and Data from Aviation Safety Program in Unites States (미국 항공안전데이터 프로그램의 비공개 특권과 제재 면제에 관한 연구)

  • Moon, Joon-Jo
    • The Korean Journal of Air & Space Law and Policy
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    • v.23 no.2
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    • pp.137-172
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    • 2008
  • The earliest safety data programs, the FDR and CVR, were electronic reporting systems that generate data "automatically." The FDR program, originally instituted in 1958, had no publicly available restrictions for protections against sanctions by the FAA or an airline, although there are agreements and union contracts forbidding the use of FDR data for FAA enforcement actions. This FDR program still has the least formalized protections. With the advent of the CVR program in 1966, the precursor to the current FAR 91.25 was already in place, having been promulgated in 1964. It stated that the FAA would not use CVR data for enforcement actions. In 1982, Congress began restricting the disclosure of the CVR tape and transcripts. Congress added further clarification of the availability of discovery in civil litigation in 1994. Thus, the CVR data have more definitive protections in place than do FDR data. The ASRS was the first non-automatic reporting system; and built into its original design in 1975 was a promise of limited protection from enforcement sanctions. That promise was further codified in an FAR in 1979. As with the CVR, from its inception, the ASRS had some protections built in for the person who might have had a safety problem. However, the program did not (and to this day does not) explicitly deal with issues of use by airlines, litigants, or the public media, although it appears that airlines will either take a non-punitive stance if an ASRS report is filed, or the airline may ignore the fact that it has been filed at all. The FAA worked with several U.S. airlines in the early 1990s on developing ASAP programs, and the FAA issued an Advisory Circular about the program in 1997. From its inception, the ASAP program contained some FAA enforcement protections and company discipline protections, although some protection against litigation disclosure and public disclosure was not added until 2003, when FAA Order 8000.82 was promulgated, placing the program under the protections of FAR 193, which had been added in 2001. The FOQA program, when it was first instituted through a demonstration program in 1995, did not contain protections against sanctions. Now, however, the FAA cannot take enforcement action based on FOQA safety data, and an airline is limited to "corrective action" under the program. Union contracts can exclude FOQA from the realm of disciplinary action, although airline practice may be for airlines to require retraining if there is no contract in place forbidding it. The data is protected against disclosure for litigation and public media purposes by FAA Order 8000.81, issued in 2003, which placed FOQA under the protections of FAR 193. The figure on the next page shows when each program began, and when each statute, regulation, or order became effective for that program.

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