Correcting deviations as early as possible during instrument approach procedures — within a comprehensive strategy that helps flight crews to consistently accomplish stabilized approaches in large commercial jets — offers significant potential to avert predominant types of air transport accidents, according to results of French research begun in 2011.
André Vernay, human risks program manager, Direction Générale de l’Aviation Civile (DGAC) of France, in November explained threat concepts and solutions derived from the DGAC’s ongoing analysis of noncompliant approaches (or NCAs), during Flight Safety Foundation’s 67th annual International Air Safety Summit in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.
A DGAC-appointed research team inside the directorate’s Safety Management Coordination Office coined this term as a research construct during preliminary reviews of 13 accidents and major incidents — drawn from a 35-year period — after common causal factors sparked …
