How aviation safety has improved

In the meantime, the aviation market continues to innovate, most not long ago with the introduction of composite elements and the growing use of digital technology and electronics.

“The new technology of airliners are very innovative, but it will acquire time – at least quite a few yrs – to see how resistant the resources will be,” states Thomas Cahlik, Head of Mediterranean, Aviation, AGCS.

Numerous of the new technologies have assisted increase basic safety, these kinds of as better cockpit instrumentation shows and fly-by-wire techniques. Nonetheless, engineering has a
likely for generating unanticipated repercussions, in accordance to Jon Downey, Head of Aviation – US, AGCS.

“Once, pilots relied on their ‘steam gauges’ and experienced incredibly tiny stay facts at their fingertips. Now the info accessible can be too much to handle,” he suggests.

Though ‘glass cockpit’ technological know-how gives significantly better visual recognition it also raises challenges, as was found in the reduction of the Air France Flight 447 in 2009 with 228 folks on-board. Incident investigators concluded that the pilots turned confused by the plane’s instrumentation and took inappropriate motion when the Airbus 330 flew into turbulence in the course of a tropical thunderstorm around the Atlantic Ocean.

Fears around pilot’s reliance on automation in the cockpit were being also raised by the Asiana crash in 2013.

“What we see now is an rising reliance on know-how, that pilots may well not entirely comprehend, that at some position this can diminish a pilot’s situational consciousness and adhere and rudder abilities,” suggests Downey.