Risks Involved in The Aviation Industry

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There will always be risks involved with the aviation industry. Even with the great deal of resources available to mitigate these risks, mishaps can occur. Mishaps can occur during any phase of flight, to include ground handling. The cause of these mishaps can be from pilot error, equipment failure, maintenance malpractice, weather, or even terrorism. Crash recovery is a very important part of the aircraft maintainers’ job. During war or peacetime operations, the runway must be clear and ready for operations 24 hours a day.
Aircraft recovery is an operation which results from an aircraft having experienced reliability induced forced landing on the ground or being disabled as the result of an accident. The operation includes an assessment, repair, and fly-out if possible, or recovery by ground means to an appropriate maintenance facility for repair and eventual return to service. Aircraft recovery and maintenance evacuation are closely related since, in each case, the aircraft must be rigged for lift by a crane device and secured aboard a ground vehicle. Aircraft recovery, however, requires extensive coordination and is usually time sensitive.
The Air Force developed the Crash Damaged and Disabled Aircraft Recovery (CDDAR) program to ensure there are trained technicians and equipment available to recover aircraft and get an airfield back into operations as quickly as possible. The term CDDAR is specific to the Air Force; however, aircraft recovery is performed by other services in the Department of Defense and by the civilian aviation industry.

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Two elements critical to executing a successful recovery are planning and preparation. Together these two elements are what make a CDDAR Team Chief and CDDAR team capable o...

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... accumulators, Aircraft engine fire bottles, Emergency nitrogen blow down bottles, Parachute severance cartridges, Ejection seat(s) unexploded CAD/PAD bottles, Ejection seat(s) emergency oxygen bottles, Canopy removers and thrusters, Liquid oxygen bottles, Chaff and flare dispensers
Electrical Power lines, Live wires
Electronic radiation Avionics equipment
Toxic Hypergolic mixture in propellants, Hydrazine, Cargo may contain hazardous chemicals
Composite AFFF soaked composite material, Damaged composites bundles and airborne particulate, Fuel contaminated composites, Cutting operations
Miscellaneous Battery acid, Accumulators, Shocks, Struts, Tires, Pneumatic systems, Fire bottles, Shattered metal
A/C Lifting Unequal distribution of weight, Pitch and roll attitudes outside of maximum limits, Work zone distances
(Retrieved from T.O. 00-105E-9, Chapter 3, Table 3.7-7)

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