Air Crashes Proven Due to Human Factor Under “Latent Error
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Date
2021
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UMT, Lahore
Abstract
In aviation industry, all activities revolve around the aircraft to ensure the effective and safe
operations. Aviation industry ensure and prioritize the safety of an aircraft. But somehow air
crash occurs due to mainly three factors which are technical factor, external factor and human
factor. Out of these, human factor or latent error is most crucial cause of accidents because it is
almost unnoticeable and often overlooked while finding the cause of accidents. For this issue,
HFACS model was proposed which looks into different types of latent errors that may occur in
aviation industry. Using this model, accidents occurred in Pakistani, American and Canadian
Airlines were analysed and found out what kind of latent error is occurred most and which
country’s airline reported more accidents due to latent error. It was found that Canadian Airlines
reported more case due to latent error and was found that the latent error is not blamed as the
major cause of the accident.