Human Factors In Aviation Case Study

Introduction
Basically, human factors are important in relation with the aviation industry. It is the human interaction with the surrounding system. Furthermore, “Human factors discovers and applies information about human behaviour, limitations, abilities, and other characteristics to the design of tools, tasks, jobs, systems, machines, and environments for productive, safe, comfortable, and effective human use” (Chapanis, 1996).
Besides that, human factors can maintain the performance of the personnel in doing tasks in which will lead to more safety during works and thus can boost the economic growth for the aviation industries. Despite the human factors can also lead to catastrophic and disaster if the personnel or pilot do not rely on the proper procedure for works or flight. Thus, there were few aircraft disasters had happened for the past years. The incident and accident occurred because of the error made by human being.
Moreover, an incident can be explained by any event which is not part of the standard operation of a service and which causes, or may cause, an interruption to or a reduction in, the quality of that service. In airliners, the incident such as the defects in an aircraft can lead to the catastrophic failure without the loss of life. Likewise, an accident is an unforeseen and unplanned event or circumstance in which often with lack of intention or necessity. An accident can occur if there is lack of intention and no proper procedure being made either by the maintenance personnel or pilot can lead to the disaster which will cost a lot of life.
The following assignment on the Tenerife accident, between KLM 4805 and Pan Am Clipper 1736, on March 27, 1977, is a research of human error occurred in the accident base...

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...r technical crews and staffs for their behavior and performance. Positive employee will results in positive growth of the company itself thus create a safe-making profit aviation industry. Without positive growth of industry, there will be no positive growth of income for the nation.
As for accident and incident, as Murphy law has stated "Anything that can go wrong will go wrong". But if this event may happens a preventative and safety action must be taken to minimize the casualty that may occur. By following the safety operational procedure, the odds that failure may happens will be less and this may help to preserve life, maintenance and economy. History will become the guide line on perfecting the technology and the system to prevent mistakes from repeating. From previous accident and incident, although the history cannot be change but the future may be different