A Case Study of Taxiway Landing (1982-2016)

Linfeng Jin and Chien-Tsung Lu

ABSTRACT

  Statistically, aviation accidents and incidents were mostly resulted from operators’ error. An operator’s error was due to correlated precedent issues such as carelessness, ignorance, fatigue, lack of training/knowledge/skills, health, peer pressure, just to name a few. Landing on taxiway is very unique in aviation system but it happened. To understand better about the causes of the aforementioned problem, the authors visited NTSB’s database and discovered 26 reports dated between July 4th, 1982 and March 10th, 2016. Using the inductive analysis, the result showed that skill-based error was the major deficiency leading to “landing on taxiway” cases. Student pilots contributed most cases to the problem followed by airline transport pilots.

KEYWORDS: Landing on Taxiway; Flight Safety; Skill-Based Error; SHELL

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