Maintenance and inspection as risk factors in helicopter accidents: Analysis and recommendations.

In this work, we establish that maintenance and inspection are a risk factor in helicopter accidents. Between 2005 and 2015, flawed maintenance and inspection were causal factors in 14% to 21% of helicopter accidents in the U.S. civil fleet. For these maintenance-related accidents, we examined the i...

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Main Authors: Joseph Homer Saleh, Archana Tikayat Ray, Katherine S Zhang, Jared S Churchwell
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2019-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0211424