ANALYSIS OF THE CAUSES OF FLIGHT SAFETY BREACHES AND STATISTICS OF ACCIDENTS ON AIR TRANSPORT

Abstract

The modern development of the Russian economy is accompanied by the development of air transport, which is equipped with new sophisticated aviation technology, while at the same time having a fairly large fleet of aircraft of past generations. Under these conditions, flight safety is of particular importance as one of the main components of the quality of the functioning of the aviation transport system. The reasons for the violation of flight safety are the imperfection of the system of professional training of specialists, errors of the crew and ground services workers, shortcomings in the organization of flight work, air traffic control services, engineering staff, design or production shortcomings of aviation equipment, imperfection of regulatory and technical documentation, etc. All this leads to accidents. Moreover, the causes and threats to flight safety that led to aviation accidents often remain unidentified even during the investigation of severe accidents. This can largely explain the weak effectiveness of measures to prevent them in air transport today. In this article, we analyze the causes of violations of flight safety and the statistics of aviation accidents.