Every year in last 5 years ATR has crashed this is the 2018 second month and ATR crashed again. Come man just to make sales on ATR you people need to stop selling this flying coffin and start caring about human life. Investigation should be launched into ATR immediately. for 5 consecutive years is not a coincident. You cannot blame human error every time. ATR pays the investigators and makes sales on this flying coffin.
A faulty product should not be allowed to be sold on the market.
Each mishap investigation is its own event, meaning any tie-in to any previous mishap is the last resort.
When you begin flying lessons, among the first things you
WILL learn in ground school is that %50 of
ALL aviation mishaps -- general, commercial, and military -- are human errors. When we say 'all' we are talking about ground to in-flight events, fixed and rotary wings.
http://planecrashinfo.com/cause.htm
The next highest cause is 'mechanical', next is 'weather'. These two categories have gray areas that crosses into 'human'.
Take weather, for example. If a pilot is informed of or encounter light rain, he has the authority to deviate or fly thru. If the rain turns out to be heavier than expected and resulted in a mishap, the event will count as 'human error'. Same with anything mechanical. If engine One oil pressure indicator is fluctuating but Two is not, the pilot have the authority to either fly or call for maintenance. There is practically nothing ground controllers can do about his decision. If the cause turned out to be the indicator itself and nothing about the engine, then the write-up and remedy will reflect that. But if there is a mishap and it turned out to be the engine, then the mishap will be recorded as 'human error'.
Every aircraft has unique handling characteristics, from being on the ground to in-flight. That is why each aircraft in development has to be tested by varieties of pilots with diverse background. Their inputs, ranging from opinions to factual observations, are analyzed and if there is a potential that a certain trait can cause a mishap independent of aircrew actions, that will be investigated. This does not mean there are no genuine flaws that escaped development testing, but the reality is that inherent flaws are actually less prevalent as causes of mishaps than human errors are.
Am not defending ATR here but talking from aviation experience that started before I have a driver's license. I learned to fly and drive in high school. Then came my USAF time on the F-111 and F-16. Modern fly-by-wire flight control systems cannot adequately compensate for what a pilot can do in the cockpit. Collision avoidance system can be turned off. Transponders can be turned off. An elbow turned the wrong way can reduce one throttle but not the other, producing asymmetric thrust that can cause a mishap. When you look at driving, which is a 2D environment, and how much road mishaps are caused by drivers, it is not that difficult to see how human errors are the highest causes of aviation mishaps.
Mikheil Janelidze
