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Investigation on the failure data of commercial aircrafts and computer motherboard

  • Deng Fengli*
  • , Zhang Shunong
  • , Kang Rui
  • , Michael Pecht
  • *Corresponding author for this work
  • Beihang University
  • University of Maryland, College Park

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Abstract

In this paper, an assessment of commercial airplane accident and incident data collected by the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) between 1990 and 2009 was provided. The data was analyzed to look for failure characteristics regarding avionics systems and failure data from which the avionics systems of Airbus A319/320 planes operated by China Southern Airlines (CSA) during 2005 was also analyzed. A list showing the proportion of failures caused by various significant parts in these avionics systems was created and the differences between the NTSB data and the CSA data were analyzed. The results of a case study that performed on a major component of commercial avionics systems the Flight Management System (FMS) was presented. FMSs built by different manufacturers was studied, and the failure statistics of these FMSs was presented, which was obtained from our analysis of NTSB and CSA accident and incident data, and then described the typical failure modes of FMSs, and compared them with the failure modes of computer main boards.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationICRMS'2011 - Safety First, Reliability Primary
Subtitle of host publicationProceedings of 2011 9th International Conference on Reliability, Maintainability and Safety
Pages1003-1009
Number of pages7
DOIs
StatePublished - 2011
Event2011 9th International Conference on Reliability, Maintainability and Safety: Safety First, Reliability Primary, ICRMS'2011 - Guiyang, China
Duration: 12 Jun 201115 Jun 2011

Publication series

NameICRMS'2011 - Safety First, Reliability Primary: Proceedings of 2011 9th International Conference on Reliability, Maintainability and Safety

Conference

Conference2011 9th International Conference on Reliability, Maintainability and Safety: Safety First, Reliability Primary, ICRMS'2011
Country/TerritoryChina
CityGuiyang
Period12/06/1115/06/11

Keywords

  • commercial aircraft
  • Failure data
  • failure mode
  • flight management system

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