Suggestive Events of the aeromedical certification safety failure

This project would locate source datasets, identify, collect, and analyze suggestive events of failure of the aeromedical certification safety case for certified pilots. These events include medical disqualification, new special issuance, pilot enforcement action for alcohol/drug use, and death match by NDI/CDC. The objective is to establish methods and algorithms to evaluate effectiveness of aeromedical dispositions and verify achievement of an Acceptable Level of Safety (ALOS) in the National Airspace System (NAS). The project will also establish datasets holding the results of the events, and thus contribute to data-driven safety management system (SMS). For medical disqualification, new special issuance, pilot enforcement action for alcohol/drug use, events since year 2010 will be identified and collected. The trend analysis will be performed. For NDI mortality data match to determine pilot off-flight incapacitation. The target cohort will be those former aeromedical certificate holders in the United States whose certificates expired in a previous time frame who did not seek to recertify. Such required data fields as names and SS numbers will be collected from each pilot's most recent application of aeromedical certificates to provide to the National Death Index supplied by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) for potential death matches. The death rates and causes of death of these former aeromedical certificate holders will be assessed. Causes of death will also be evaluated for relevance to the aeromedical certification process.

Language

• English

Project

• Status: Active
• Sponsor Organizations:

  Department of Transportation

  1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
  Washington, DC, Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Managing Organizations:

  Federal Aviation Administration

  800 Independence Avenue, SW
  Washington, DC, Washington, DC  United States  20591
• Performing Organizations:

  Civil Aerospace Medical Institute-Federal Aviation Administration

  P.O. Box 25082
  Oklahoma City, Oklahoma  United States  73125
• Principal Investigators:

  Ding, Michael

• Start Date: 20220921
• Expected Completion Date: 20240328
• Actual Completion Date: 0
• USDOT Program: Aeromedical Research
• Subprogram: aviation safety

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Air pilots; Aviation medicine; Data analysis; Fatalities
• Identifier Terms: Civil Aeromedical Institute
• Subject Areas: Aviation; Data and Information Technology; Research; Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01860454
• Record Type: Research project
• Source Agency: Federal Aviation Administration
• Files: RIP, USDOT
• Created Date: Oct 4 2022 4:35PM