SAFETY RECORD OF OUR AİRLİNES
Cathay Pacific Flight 700Z
Date: 15 June 1972 Reason: Aviation bombing
Site: Over Pleiku, South Vietnam Passengers: 71
Crew: 10 Fatalities: 81 Route: Singapore-Hong Kong
Kenya Airways Flight 507
Date: 5 May 2007 Reason: Pilot error, spatial disorientation
Site: End of Douala Airport runway Passengers: 108
Crew: 6 Fatalites: 114
Kenya Airways Flight 431
Date: 30 January 2000 Reason: Electrical fault combined with pilot error
Site: Off the coast of Côte d’Ivoire Passengers: 169
Crew: 10 Injuries (non-fatal): 10
Fatalities: 169 Route: Côte d’Ivoire-Nairobi
Jet Airways Flight 9W2423
Date: 13 April 2015 Reason: Unspecified problem occurred with the left hand main gear
Site: Khajuraho Airport Passengers: 59
Crew: 8 Fatalities: 0
Route: Varanasi-Khajuraho
Southwest Airlines Flight 1248
Date: 8 December 2005 Reason: Runway overrun in snowstorm
Site: Chicago Midway International Airport Passengers: 98
Crew: 5 Injuries (non-fatal): 12 ( 9 on ground)
Fatalities: 1 on ground Route: Washington-Las Vegas
Pegasus Airlines
Date: 30 October 2009 Reason: pilot error- hitting to light column at apron
Site: Malatya Airport Passengers: 98
Crew: 8 Fatalities: 0
Route: Istanbul-Malatya
Implications and Consequences of Accidents:
After Cathay Pacific Flight 700Z accident, the security on airports and on board has been increased. They have hardened the cocpit doors. Except emergency situations cocpit doors cannot open without pilot’s permission. There is a code ( password ) to open cocpit door.
After Kenya Airways Flight 431 accident, they attached new panels and new door design for new aircrafts. They also created new systems for electrical problems. If something goes wrong with electrical system, this second system will be displayed and help pilot.
After these crashes, companies had some bad reputation for a while. In order to encourage people to buy their tickets, to use their flights they have decreased the prices. Airlines have also changed the training system of pilots.
Service quality refers to the type of aircraft, the arrangement of flight schedule, and the record of safety performance. The better the service quality the airline offers, the more passengers it would attract. As a result, the airline would suffer less from the impact of an accident. Route character refers to the structure of routes, the existent competitive airlines and the alternative modes of travel available. The more competitive the route is, the greater loss the airline would suffer from an accident.
For purposes of better understanding the causes of aircraft accidents, it is advisable to look at the phases of a flight. Figure shows the flight phases according to the percentage of accidents occurring per phase. The majority of fatal accidents happen during the landing phase. Even though, landing, take off and taxi represent a small portion of the total Percentage of a flight, most nonfatal and fatal accidents happen during these particular phases.
