Abstract
The United States Army Agency for Aviation Safety determines ways and means to conserve aviation resources of the United States Army. An important function of the Agency is to conduct an active accident research program. This paper overviews some of the accident research techniques, methodology, and application of results that have been used. This includes accident research in hardware and selected engineering changes, human factors research in accidents, a pilot error model, concept of human error as a “behavioral anomaly” and multivariate statistical techniques used in accident research. A challenge is issued to accident researchers and other areas of human factors research to align their efforts in reducing accidents.
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