Thursday, September 18, 2014

Blog #6 Wrapping up my project with a conclusion.




Conclusion
            The end state is whether we have to live with aircraft structural mishaps and for the time being yes.  Aircraft have come a long way.  Engineers continue to develop better products, with greater physical properties that will allow us to live with aircraft structural issues and even though we don’t like it, it will be able to control.  After these issues are further conquered, the FAA will continue to make the industry one of the strictest to preserve life and the machines. Aircraft mishaps do happen like the two mentioned accidents, but if the industry is refined then the rate of structural mishaps will continue to slowly subside.  Through the assistance of experienced investigators and their data collection processes, it will allow for refinement of the industry.  This refinement, will allow for the death toll of passengers caused by air mishaps to steadily fall (Rodrigue, 2013). 
            Since 1918 it has been conclude by the Aircraft Crashes Records Office (ACRO), located in Geneva that most mishaps were caused by humans (67%), technology (20%), and the last 13% by atmospheric conditions that resulted by weather.  Respectively, 50% off all accident took place within 10 km of the airport of which the aircraft took off from and 21% was a result of the aircraft landings.  1970 was a milestone for the aviation because before 1970 air travel was on the rise and proportionality so was mishaps.  After 1970, with the number of air travel being substantially higher, fatalities decreased rapidly.  The results of all this is due to aircraft design being better, improved training for aircrew, advanced control and navigation systems, to include comprehensive accident management teams who strive towards identifying all probable causes to conclude strategies towards mitigation (Rodrigue, 2013).
References
Rodrigue, J-P (2013), The Geography of Transport Systems (3rd ed.). New York, NY: Routledge.

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