Tenerife Accident Analysis: a comparison of Fault Tree Analysis, Failure Mode and Effects Analysis and Causal Analysis based on System Theory

Authors : Fatih ÖZTÜRK, Ahmet Ebrar SAKALLI, Gökmen TAK, Emin TARAKÇI

Pages : 773-790

Doi:10.35378/gujs.1014604

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Publication Date : 2023-06-01

Article Type : Research Paper

Abstract :Air transport is considered to be the safest means of transport. However, if an accident occurs, it often ends in catastrophe. Thus, significant efforts have been paid to sustain successful operations in aviation. Several studies have been carried out to understand the underlying reasons for accidents. This study used Fault Tree Analysis insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(FTA);, Failure Mode and Effects Analysis insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(FMEA); and Causal Analysis based on Systems Theory insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(CAST); methods to analyse Tenerife aircraft accident and to compare the findings of different methods. The findings showed that while all three methods provided some overlapping findings, the CAST method led to the identification of all causes that were identified by other methods. Considering the nature of the causal factors, FMEA provided more causal factors that are related to organisation and technology than FTA. This study indicates that CAST has a significant value to identify all causes that can be identified by the use of traditional methods.
Keywords : Accident investigation, CAST, FMEA, FTA, Risk management