NASA joins FAA and DoD in human factors research initiative. Plan aims to make National Airspace System safer for people who use it. Proportion of human error-related accidents still as high as 60 to 80 percent.
NASA joins FAA and DoD in human factors research initiative. Plan aims to make National Airspace System safer for people who use it. Proportion of human error-related accidents still as high as 60 to 80 percent.
NASA joins FAA and DoD in human factors research initiative. Plan aims to make National Airspace System safer for people who use it. Proportion of human error-related accidents still as high as 60 to 80 percent.
NASA has joined with the Federal Aviation Administration
(FAA) and the Department of Defense (DoD) in a comprehensive initiative to apply human factors research to the National Airspace System. The plan represents an all encompassing national commitment to making the system safer and less complicated for the people who use it.
"NASA is proud to work with the FAA and the Department
of Defense in an effort to improve safety in commercial aviation," said NASA Administrator Daniel S. Goldin. "Since 1976, NASA has managed the Aviation Safety Reporting System for the FAA. Aviation incidents reported voluntarily and confidentially by pilots, air traffic controllers and others are combined to form the world's most comprehensive aviation human factors database," he added.
The action plan titled, "The National Plan for Civil
Aviation Human Factors", is compatible with Vice President Albert Gore's National Science and Technology Council. The Council outlines a coordinated national agenda to address one of the principle goals established at the Department of Transportation's industry-wide Safety Conference last January: to eliminate accidents and incidents attributed to human error.
In spite of the success of more sophisticated and
reliable technology, the proportion of human error-related accidents is still as high as 60 to 80 percent.
The initiative will bring research results to the
operational community. Additionally the plan has three main goals: identifying operational needs and problems involving human performance; guiding research programs which address the human factor; and eliciting the participation of the nation's top scientists and aviation professionals in government, private industry and universities. The plan provides for sharing of research results among the participating government agencies and the private sector to increase the speed and efficiency by which new concepts in human performance can be tested, validated and incorporated into the national aviation system.
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