In this research we are going to talk about the safety record of three Airlines. These Airlines are Cathay pacific, Air Asia and China Southern Airlines, and the research covers these Airlines accident history, specifically the period between 2001 until now according to Air Asia as it has been established in 2001. Firstly, let’s start with Cathay pacific, the Airline has 11 accidents and incidents since it started their flight operations, but since 2001 till now they had 2 accidents one was in 2004 and it happened because of loss of control, and the other one was in 2010 because of engine stall with high speed landing.
Although Air Asia is one of the largest (LCC) airlines in Asia and the world, it has seven accidents and incidents since its inception in 2001 in the order in 2004, 2011, 2014 and four accidents in 2017. The Air Asia group has had a troubled history of technical failures and human error over the last five years. Comparing with China Southern Airlines and Cathay Pacific it has the largest number of accidents. In 2014 a A320 plane crashed after a high-altitude stall killing 162 people, which was the most horrible accident in the history of the Air Asia, which put pressure on them to raise the level of safety and a lot of changes in 2014. Most people believe that the cause of this number of accidents is because of the lack of experience for its new age in the aviation sector.
China southern Airlines was founded in 1988, and since it was founded until now the Airline had just three accidents and incidents because of three different reasons, the first one was on 1990 and it was hijacked the flight number was 2812, the second one was in 1992, the airplane crashed on descent to Guilin Airport, killing 141 abroad, Finally and the third one was in 1997, flight 3456, Boeing 737 crashed during the during the second attempt to land in thunderstorm. And since 1997 they haven’t had any accident, so from 2001 until now their percentage in the chart will be 0%
This chart presents the total number of accidents divided by 18, which is the number of years between 2001 and 2019. In this period China Southern Airlines didn’t have any accidents that’s why its percentage is 0, but Cathay Pacific had 2 accidents in 2004 and 2010 as it was mentioned above, with percentage of 22%, And Air Asia had 7 accidents in 2004,2011,2014 and 2017 with percentage of 78%.
Finally, Cathay Pacific Flight 780 (13/APR/2010) Flight accident, the flight was going from Surabaya international airport to Hong Kong, the occupation was 322, 309 passengers and 13 from the crew, and 57 passengers got injured. Fortunately, no one died, the accident happened because of Engine failure and landed at almost twice the speed of a normal landing. Analysis of the engines found that their fuel systems were contaminated with spherical particles. The Hong Kong Civil Aviation Department’s Accident Investigation Division concluded that the accident was caused by these spherical particles.
AUTHERS
KHALED ELASHRY
OMAR SHIEKH
ARMAGAN AYDIN
REFERENCES
https://aviation.stackexchange.com/
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4638476/AirAsia-history-mechanical-failure-human-error.html
https://www.icao.int/safety/iStars/Pages/Accident-Statistics.aspx
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