Safety Is No Accident
SAFETY IS NO ACCIDENT
INTRODUCTION
This book provides a rare insight into aviation safety from the work carried out by the UK Government’s Accidents Investigation Branch, by its former Chief Inspector. It is an account of the particular contribution that aircraft accident investigation has made, and can make, to the ever improving standards of flight safety. The basic objective of an accident investigation team is to bring to light a potential or actual failure, either technical or human. It is a fascinating challenge, sometimes exciting, but always involving patient examination of every aspect of the accident. The book will be of interest to all those who fly, whether as flight crew or passengers, as well as all those people who are involved with the aviation business.
BOOK’S REVIEW
This book is about safety in the air and the particular contribution that aircraft accident investigation has made and can make to the ever improving standards of flight safety.
The emphasis on accident investigation is in no respect an attempt to be little the part played by many other organizations in the pursuit of greater safety in the air. It is merely a case of accident investigation having been within the author personal experience while he was employed by the UK government for twenty-six years in a professional capacity as an accident investigator.
During the later ten years or so of that period it became apparent to him that most members of the public have only the remotest idea what the investigator is trying to achieve, why they do what they do or even who pay them to do it.
The author does not wish to bore the reader with what could so easily become a text book on the subject. Rather, it is his intention to throw some light on aircraft accident investigation generally by means of illustrations of events, examples and occasionally comments, in the hopes of interesting the reader in what has been for him a satisfying, even fulfilling activity. It has given him the
INTRODUCTION
This book provides a rare insight into aviation safety from the work carried out by the UK Government’s Accidents Investigation Branch, by its former Chief Inspector. It is an account of the particular contribution that aircraft accident investigation has made, and can make, to the ever improving standards of flight safety. The basic objective of an accident investigation team is to bring to light a potential or actual failure, either technical or human. It is a fascinating challenge, sometimes exciting, but always involving patient examination of every aspect of the accident. The book will be of interest to all those who fly, whether as flight crew or passengers, as well as all those people who are involved with the aviation business.
BOOK’S REVIEW
This book is about safety in the air and the particular contribution that aircraft accident investigation has made and can make to the ever improving standards of flight safety.
The emphasis on accident investigation is in no respect an attempt to be little the part played by many other organizations in the pursuit of greater safety in the air. It is merely a case of accident investigation having been within the author personal experience while he was employed by the UK government for twenty-six years in a professional capacity as an accident investigator.
During the later ten years or so of that period it became apparent to him that most members of the public have only the remotest idea what the investigator is trying to achieve, why they do what they do or even who pay them to do it.
The author does not wish to bore the reader with what could so easily become a text book on the subject. Rather, it is his intention to throw some light on aircraft accident investigation generally by means of illustrations of events, examples and occasionally comments, in the hopes of interesting the reader in what has been for him a satisfying, even fulfilling activity. It has given him the