Aviation Safety

Revised: May 2007

NASA's forerunner, the National Advisory Council on Aeronautics, was founded by President Wilson in order to "...supervise and direct the scientific study of the problems of flight, with a view to their practical solution, and to determine the problems which should be experimentally attacked, and to discuss their solution and their application to practical questions" (Public Law 63-271). Although the headlines often focus on NASA's activity outside of the Earth's atmosphere, a lot of NASA's successes lie in its continual effort to develop safer aircraft, keeping a promise made to the American people almost a century ago.

All items are available at the Headquarters Library, except as noted. NASA Headquarters employees and contractors: call (358-0172) or email Library@hq.nasa.gov for information on borrowing or in-library use of any of these items. Members of the public, contact your Local Library for the availability of these items. NASA Headquarters employees can request additional materials or research on this topic. The Library welcomes your comments or suggestions about this webpage.


Contents: Books Journals Internet Resources

Books

Adair, Bill. The Mystery of Flight 427: Inside a Crash Investigation. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 2002.
TL553.525 .P4 A33 2002 BOOKSTACKS
 
Connell, Linda J. Cabin Crew Safety Information and the NASA Aviation Safety Reporting System. Mountain View, CA: Aviation Safety Reporting System, 2000.
TL553.5 .C67 2000 BOOKSTACKS
 
Faith, Nicholas. Black Box: The Air-Crash Detectives - Why Air Safety is no Accident. Osceola, WI: Motorbooks International, 1997.
TL589.2 .F5 F35 1997 BOOKSTACKS
 
Gero, David. Aviation Disasters: The World's Major Civil Airliner Crashes Since 1950. Sparkford, UK: P. Stephens, 1996.
TL553.5 .G476 1996 BOOKSTACKS
 
__________. Military Aviation Disasters: Significant Losses Since 1908. Newbury Park, CA: Haynes North America, 1999.
TL553.5 .G37 1999 BOOKSTACKS
 
Huettner, Charles H. Toward a Safer Twenty-First Century: Aviation Safety Research Baseline and Future Challenges. Washington, DC: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 1996.
TL553.5 .H84 1997 BOOKSTACKS
 
Krause, Shari Stamford. Aircraft Safety: Accident Investigations, Analyses, and Applications. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill, 1996.
TL553.5 .K73 1996 BOOKSTACKS
 
Leary, William M. "We Freeze to Please": A History of NASA's Icing Research Tunnel and the Quest for Flight Safety. Washington, DC: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Office of External Relations, NASA History Office, 2002.
TL557 .I3 L43 2002 BOOKSTACKS
 
McIntyre, Geoffrey R. Patterns in Safety Thinking: A Literature Guide to Air Transportation Safety. Aldershot, UK: Ashgate, 2000.
TL553.5 .M32 2000 BOOKSTACKS
 
National Research Council. Committee on the Effects of Aircraft-Pilot Coupling on Flight Safety. Aviation Safety and Pilot Control: Understanding and Preventing Unfavorable Pilot-Vehicle Interactions. Washington, DC: National Academy Press, 1997.
TL553.6 .N38 1997 BOOKSTACKS
 
Strauch, Barry. Investigating Human Error: Incidents, Accidents, and Complex Systems. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2004.
TL553.5 .S77 2004 BOOKSTACKS
 
United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Subcommittee on Aviation. Aviation Safety: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Aviation of the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, United States Senate, One Hundred Ninth Congress, First Session, November 17, 2005. Washington, DC: U.S. G.P.O., 2006.
KF26 .C67 A95 2006 BOOKSTACKS
 
United States. Federal Aviation Administration. Human Factors Team. Report on the Interfaces Between Flightcrews and Modern Flight Deck Systems. Washington, DC: The Administration, 1996.
TL589.5 .U55 1996 BOOKSTACKS
 
Walters, James M. Aircraft Accident Analysis: Final Reports. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill, 2000.
TL553.5 .W34 2000 BOOKSTACKS
 
Wells, Alexander T. Commercial Aviation Safety. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill, 2001.
TL553.5 .W46 2001 BOOKSTACKS
 
Wickens, Christopher D., Anne S. Mavor, and James P. McGee (eds.). Flight to the Future: Human Factors in Air Traffic Control. Washington, DC: National Academy Press, 1997.
TL725.3 .T7 H865 1997 BOOKSTACKS
 
Wiegmann, Douglas A. A Human Error Approach to Aviation Accident Analysis: The Human Factors Analysis and Classification System. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2003.
TL553.5 .W54 2003 BOOKSTACKS

Journals

Aeronautical Journal
 
Aerospace America
 
Aerospace Daily and Defense Report
 
AIAA Journal
 
Aviation Week and Space Technology
 
Callback
 
FAA Aviation News
 
Flight International
 
Interavia

Internet Resources

NASA Resources
Ames Homepage Team. Aeronautics Research. 3 May 2007 [21 May 2007]
http://center.arc.nasa.gov/category/aeronautics/
 
Bond, Tom. The Icing Branch at NASA Glenn Research Center. 9 March 2007 [21 May 2007]
http://icebox-esn.grc.nasa.gov/
 
Carmona, Mariana. Aviation Safety Reporting System. 7 May 2007 [21 May 2007]
http://asrs.arc.nasa.gov/
 
Dunbar, Brian. Flight Research Projects. 3 May 2007 [21 May 2007]
http://www.nasa.gov/centers/dryden/research/index.html
 
__________. NASA Langley Aeronautics. 9 May 2006 [21 May 2007]
http://www.nasa.gov/centers/langley/aeronautics/index.html
 
Martzaklis, Konstantinos. NASA Weather Accident Prevention. 7 Jan. 2007 [21 May 2007]
http://wxap.grc.nasa.gov/
 
Springer, Tony. Aviation Safety Program. 14 May 2007 [21 May 2007]
http://www.aeronautics.nasa.gov/programs_avsafe.htm
 
__________. Document Archive. 8 March 2007 [21 May 2007]
http://www.aeronautics.nasa.gov/doc_archive.htm
 
__________. Partnerships. 19 April 2007 [21 May 2007]
http://www.aeronautics.nasa.gov/partners.htm
Other Federal Resources
Federal Aviation Administration. 18 May 2007 [21 May 2007]
http://www.faa.gov/index.cfm
 
__________. Programs. 27 March 2007 [21 May 2007]
http://www.faa.gov/safety/programs_initiatives/
 
__________. Safety. 7 May 2007 [21 May 2007]
http://www.faa.gov/safety/
 
National Transporation Safety Board. 5 May 2007 [21 May 2007]
http://www.ntsb.gov/
 
__________. Aviation. 25 Feb. 2005 [21 May 2007]
http://www.ntsb.gov/Aviation/Aviation.htm
Non-Governmental Resources
Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association. Air Safety Foundation. 2007 [21 May 2007]
http://www.aopa.org/asf/
 
Flight Safety Foundation. 2007 [21 May 2007]
http://www.flightsafety.org/home.html
 
International Civil Aviation Organization. 2007 [21 May 2007]
http://www.icao.int/
  May 2007