Aviation Safety and Security : Utilizing Technology to Prevent Aircraft Fatality (Hardcover)

1 Introduction 2 History of Security Events 2.1Introduction 2.2 Threat and the use of violence in aviation 2.3 Murder at the controls of an aircraft 2.4 The Second World War, and the immediate period there after 2.5The late 1950s and 1960’s 2.6 The 1970’s onwards 2.7 Conclusions 3 Flight Data Recorders and Cockpit Voice Recorders 3.1 Introduction 3.2 Flight instrument recording 3.3 Certification and flight instrument recording 3.4 Decoding flight instrument data from data recorders 3.5 Conclusions Chapter 4 Flight Controls and Air Conditioning Systems 4.1 Relevance of Flight controls Air-conditioning systems and commercial aviation 4.2 Comparing the underlying philosophy of Flight controls for Airbus and Boeing 4.3Air-conditioning systems and commercial aviation 4.4Conclusions 5 Use of Live Aircraft Data in Aircraft Maintenance Management 5.1 Introduction 5.2 Aircraft Maintenance Management and its commercial importance 5.3 Technical components combined with data logging 5.4 Live streamed data and radio communication technologies 5.5 Data mining of very large data bases and commercial solutions to predictive maintenance 5.6Conclusions 6 Human Factors and Safety Management Systems 6.1 Introduction 6.2 British European Airways accident ? a turning point 6.3 SHELL Model 6.4 The impossible accident’ - Tenerife, 1977 6.5 Error Chain Model 6.6 Flight crew training to prevent events 6.7 Professor James Reasons’ ‘Swiss Cheese Model’6.8 Safety Management Systems 6.9 Conclusions 7 Aircraft Security ? Physical Barriers 7.1 Introduction 7.2 Flight decks with curtains and doors 7.3 British Airways 2069, 29th December 2000 7.4 Year 2001 events and post 9-11 modifications to the flight deck door. 7.5Conclusions 8 Unusual Losses of Aircraft 8.1 Introduction 8.2Korean Air Lines KL 007 shoot down, 1st September 1983 8.3 Pacific South West Airlines flight 1771, 7th December 1987 8.4 Silk Air 185, 19th December 1997 8.5Egypt Air 990, 31st October 1999 8.6 Malaysian Airlines MH370, 8th March 2013 8.7 LAM Mozambique flight 470, 29th November 2013 8.8 Germanwings 9525, 24th March 2015 8.9Horizon Air (theft/ suicide), 10th August 2018 8.10Other current sources of weaknesses in commercial aircraft 8.11Conclusions 9 Minimizing Loss: Modifying Current Aircrafts and Processes 9.1 Introduction 9.2 History of remotely controlled aircraft 9.3 Federal Aviation Administrations’ full scale controlled impact demonstration 9.4 Remote Controlled Aircraft (Drones) during and post the Gulf War ? Operation Desert Storm 9.5 Boeing Patent on Remote Control Take-over of Aircraft 9.6 Current capabilities and their limitations 9.7 Changes and technologies required for a safe autonomous system 9.8 The justification and driver to introduce ground monitored technologies 9.9 Conclusions