Human Factors in Aircraft Maintenance

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ABSTRACT Writer: Jon C. Webster Title: Human Factors and Aircraft Maintenance Institution: Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Degree: Bachelor in Professional Aeronautics Year: 2007 This research paper gives the reader a brief insight on human factors and how it is applied in aircraft maintenance. The human factors discussed in this report deals with twelve unique reasons human factors plays a role in aircraft mishaps within the maintenance career field, and also the advancement in technology the aviation industry is heading towards and what our maintainers will be facing in the near future. Today both Human Factors and Aircraft Maintenance are the two major growing concerns of the aviation industry. Human factors and aircraft maintenance, what’s a maintainer to do? If you look at past mishaps, we spend a lot of time looking at aircrew human factors, but what about the technician turning the wrench and making the aircraft fly? They are a human factor, and we need to look at how we can prevent the maintenance human factor mishap. According to AEROSPACE, June 1993, the number of maintenance concern accidents and incidents to public transport aircraft has increased significantly. This source defines maintenance concern as one that is not necessarily a maintenance error but one of which is concern to the maintenance personnel as managers of technical problems in daily operations. Human factors issues affect aircraft maintenance personnel who inspect and repair aircraft. It is quite clear that human error in aircraft maintenance has had a dramatic effect upon the safety of flight operation as the human errors of pilots. Human error rather than technical failures has the greatest potential to adversely affect aviation safety. According to (Reason, J.), The Boeing

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