Quality as the basis of flight safety

Abstract

The speed of technological development during the twentieth century was fully reflected in the aviation world, whether it was in terms of aircraft development systems for controlling air traffic or flight control systems. The fast pace of change continues today. Obviously, aircraft reliability and complexity have extremely improved for years, but nearly all accidents in civil aviation in recent memory have been the result of human error. At the early stage of aviation development the human factor (HF) share in total reasons of aviation accidents was 20 per cent, later it increased fourfold and currently it makes up about 80 per cent. It turned out, that the human in the system “Human – Aircraft” is the most unstable, the most unreliable and the weakest link: humans may make mistakes, moreover, the human has the right to be mistaken. No doubt, human errors preventing system must be worked out. The challenge is to make flying safer. It will be discussed below.