How past loss of control accidents may inform safety cases for Advanced Control Systems on commercial aircraft

Holloway, C.M. and Johnson, C.W. (2008) How past loss of control accidents may inform safety cases for Advanced Control Systems on commercial aircraft. In: Third IET Systems Safety Conference, NEC, Birmingham, UK, 2008, Birmingham, UK, 20-22 October 2008,

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Abstract

This paper describes five loss of control accidents involving The remainder of this paper follows a simple structure. In commercial aircraft, and derives from those accidents three section 2, we describe the five accidents. In section 3, we principles to consider when developing a potential safety case posit that these five accidents suggest three principles that for an advanced flight control system for commercial aircraft. should be considered in developing a safety case for any One, among the foundational evidence needed to support a advanced flight control system. We give brief concluding safety case is the availability to the control system of accurate remarks and suggestions for future work in section 4. and timely information about the status and health of relevant systems and components. Two, an essential argument to be 2 The Accidents sustained in the safety case is that pilots are provided with adequate information about the control system to enable them In this section, we describe each of the following accidents: to understand the capabilities that it provides. Three, another (1) The in-flight loss of hydraulics and subsequent crash on essential argument is that the advanced control system will landing of United Flight 232 on July 19, 1989; (2) The not perform less safely than a good pilot.

Item Type:Conference Proceedings
Status:Published
Refereed:Yes
Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID:Johnson, Professor Chris
Authors: Holloway, C.M., and Johnson, C.W.
Subjects:Q Science > QA Mathematics > QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science
H Social Sciences > HV Social pathology. Social and public welfare
T Technology > TL Motor vehicles. Aeronautics. Astronautics
College/School:College of Science and Engineering > School of Computing Science
Publisher:IET Conference Publications

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