Status: COMPLETED

Background

The purpose of this Safety Enhancement is to outline research to be conducted by the aviation community (government, industry and academia) to develop flight deck systems that enhance flight crew awareness of system status and the interaction of systems, particularly in non-normal situations involving failures in one or more systems.

In a Commercial Aviation Safety Team (CAST) study of 18 loss-of-control accidents and incidents, 15 events involved a lack of aircraft system state awareness. The aviation community should conduct research and development on aircraft systems that improve flight crew awareness of system status and the interaction of systems, particularly in non-normal situations involving failures in one or more systems, including: