ACCIDENT INVESTIGATION
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CAUSE INDEX
The ASN Safety Database, updated daily, contains descriptions of over airliner, military transport category aircraft and corporate jet aircraft safety occurrences since 1919. Airliners are considered here aircraft that are capable of carrying at least 12 passengers.
Airplane
Airframe failure, Design error, Engines, Flight surfaces, Instruments, Pressurization, Systems, Undercarriage
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- Airframe
- Cargo door
- Fuselage
- Passenger door
- Tail
- Wing
- Engines
- All engine powerloss
- APU
- Fire
- Flight with 1 engine inoperative
- Fuel contamination
- Fuel starvation
- Loss/opening of engine cowling
- Precipitation-induced flame-out
- Prop/turbine blade separation
- Reverse thrust/prop ground fine pitch
- Separation
- Shutdown of wrong engine
- Simulated engine failure
- Uncontained failure
ATC & NAVIGATION
Language/communication problems, VFR flight in IMC, Wrong or misinterpreted instructions
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COLLISIONS
Collisions between aircraft on the ground and in midair, collisions with birds and objects.
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Controlled Flight Into Terrain (CFIT)
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Flight Crew
Alcohol/drug usage, Mental condition, Non adherence to procedures, Insufficient rest / fatigue etc.
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Loss of Control–In Flight (LOC-I)
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Runway Safety (approach and landing)
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