What this profile covers
Structured identification of hazards, consequences, existing controls, likelihood, severity, uncertainty, risk ownership, and additional treatment.
Why it matters
Safety management determines whether weak signals become trusted learning, proportionate action, and resilient barriers before harm occurs. For safety risk assessment, useful analysis connects the immediate event with exposure, defenses, recurrence, and the wider operating system rather than treating one observation as a final conclusion.
Organizational controls, learning systems, risk governance, data, culture, change, and new aviation hazards.
Understand the subject before interpreting a signal.
In plain language, this profile examines structured identification of hazards, consequences, existing controls, likelihood, severity, uncertainty, risk ownership, and additional treatment.
Build a multi-source picture
- Hazard registers, risk assessments, and management review
- Reports, audits, investigations, and flight-data trends
- Action ownership and effectiveness evidence
- Change, culture, governance, and external safety intelligence
Timing, relationships, and recurrence
Relevant recorded context may include normal acceleration, pitch attitude, roll angle, engine thrust, autopilot status. Use validated mappings and examine signal relationships over the applicable flight phase.
Do not turn an observation into a conclusion
A dashboard, audit finding, or model score is an input to governance—not proof that a risk is controlled or that a safety action is effective.
Keep controlling material visible
Apply the current approved manuals, procedures, authority requirements, investigation evidence, and validated organizational definitions for any operational decision.
Normal acceleration
Acceleration measured broadly along the aircraft's vertical body axis; its touchdown peak can help characterize a landing load when interpreted with other signals.
Open parameter guide ↗degPitch attitude
Aircraft body attitude above or below the local horizontal reference.
Open parameter guide ↗degRoll angle
Aircraft bank attitude about the longitudinal axis.
Open parameter guide ↗% / ratio / aircraft-specificEngine thrust
One or more recorded measures of commanded or produced propulsion; the correct signal depends on engine and aircraft type.
Open parameter guide ↗discrete / modeAutopilot status
Engagement and mode states for automatic flight-control systems; useful analysis normally needs more than a single on/off bit.
Open parameter guide ↗From a broad topic to a defensible safety review.
Define
State what safety risk assessment means for the aircraft, operation, authority, and organization in scope.
Verify
Confirm the provenance, quality, timing, units, completeness, and limitations of every data source used.
Describe
Reconstruct what happened and quantify relevant exposure before discussing causes or corrective action.
Corroborate
Compare flight data with reports, operational context, technical evidence, and authoritative source material.
Test barriers
Identify which preventive, recovery, and consequence-mitigation controls should have worked and how their performance can be measured.
Assure
Assign proportionate action and verify whether the control and safety performance improve without harmful unintended effects.
Questions before conclusions
- Q1
How is safety risk assessment defined for the aircraft, operation, authority, and organization being reviewed?
- Q2
Which precursors, recorded signals, reports, and external data would confirm the event and describe its context?
- Q3
Which preventive, recovery, and consequence-reduction barriers should work, and where could they weaken?
- Q4
What does recurrence, exposure, severity potential, or change over time show before choosing a safety action?
4 connected event profiles
These are terminology and family connections for exploration—not claims that FDM alone can determine the topic.
Convective-weather deviation
Recorded track departs from the planned or cleared route in proximity to convective weather identified by external data.
Open FDM profile ↗FDM-116 · Systems & warningsFlight-control law or mode degradation
Recorded flight-control status changes to a degraded, alternate, direct, backup, or otherwise reduced-protection mode.
Open FDM profile ↗FDM-118 · Systems & warningsElectrical-system warning or degradation
Generator, bus, battery, voltage, frequency, or warning data indicate loss or degradation of electrical supply.
Open FDM profile ↗FDM-119 · Systems & warningsAnti-ice configuration mismatch
Anti-ice or de-ice system state differs from the validated environmental, phase, or procedure context.
Open FDM profile ↗Go deeper into the closest ASIP research guides.
Flight-Deck Automation
Use mode awareness, active monitoring, and aircraft-response verification to keep automation aligned with crew intent.
Open intelligence brief ↗Safety ManagementSafety Management Systems
Connect policy, risk management, assurance, and promotion so hazards are controlled and performance is reviewed over time.
Open intelligence brief ↗Human FactorsHuman Factors and Fatigue
Study how workload, fatigue, expectation, communication, interface design, and organizational conditions shape performance.
Open intelligence brief ↗12 useful starting points
Original ASIP summaries lead to publisher pages. ASIP does not copy or host the reports.
SAFO 13001 — Safety Hazard Concerning Bursting Coffee Filter Packages
Official U.S. Federal Aviation Administration material indexed for aviation safety. Open the publisher source for the complete document, scope, and current status.
Open official sourceSAFO 08007 — Hazard Present on Airplanes Pressurized by an A/C Cart During Ground Operations
Official U.S. Federal Aviation Administration material indexed for ground operations. Open the publisher source for the complete document, scope, and current status.
Open official sourceSAFO 08021 — Importance of Standard Operating Procedures ( SOP ) as Evidenced by a Take off Configuration Hazard in Boeing DC-9 series, MD-80 series, MD-90, and B-717 Airplanes
Official U.S. Federal Aviation Administration material indexed for takeoff and maintenance. Open the publisher source for the complete document, scope, and current status.
Open official sourceSAFO 06008 — Fire hazard with flameless ration heaters ( a.k.a. meals, ready-to-eat ( MRE ))
Official U.S. Federal Aviation Administration material indexed for fire and smoke. Open the publisher source for the complete document, scope, and current status.
Open official sourceSAFO 06009 — Atlanta airport ( ATL ) runway 10-28, potential hazard
Official U.S. Federal Aviation Administration material indexed for approach and landing and runway safety. Open the publisher source for the complete document, scope, and current status.
Open official sourceNTSB Safety Alert SA-068 — Flight Helmet Cords Can Impede Egress: Understand the hazard of direct-to-airframe cord connections
Official U.S. National Transportation Safety Board material indexed for emergency preparedness. Open the publisher source for the complete document, scope, and current status.
Open official sourceNTSB Safety Alert SA-071 — Do Your Takeoff Homework; Runway Length Matters - Understanding the Potential Hazards of Intersection Takeoffs
Official U.S. National Transportation Safety Board material indexed for approach and landing and takeoff. Open the publisher source for the complete document, scope, and current status.
Open official sourceAnnex 19 — Safety Management, Third Edition
Annex 19 consolidates ICAO safety-management provisions, including State safety responsibilities, SMS, safety-data collection and processing, and the protection and sharing of safety information.
Open official sourceAnnual Safety Review 2025
EASA's review uses occurrence and accident information to describe performance across aviation domains and to support the European safety-risk-management process.
Open official sourceStatistical Summary of Commercial Jet Airplane Accidents, 1959–2024
Boeing's 56th annual statistical summary organizes commercial-jet accident data using stated definitions and the CAST/ICAO occurrence taxonomy.
Open official sourceIATA Annual Safety Report — 2024
IATA's 61st annual report provides an interactive, method-defined view of commercial aviation accident performance and contributing-factor classifications.
Open official sourceAC 120-92D — Safety Management Systems for Aviation Service Providers
FAA guidance explains performance-based, scalable approaches to integrating safety policy, risk management, assurance, and promotion into aviation organizations.
Open official sourceCommon Taxonomy Team
International work on common aviation occurrence categories and definitions for consistent reporting and analysis.
Open referenceSafety Risk Management
European safety-risk process connecting data, safety issues, risk portfolios, priorities, and safety action.
Open referenceAnnual programmes and reports
Annual safety reviews and risk portfolios used to identify key risk areas, safety issues, and emerging issues.
Open referenceEuropean Plan for Aviation Safety 2025
A broad evidence-based portfolio showing the scale and connected nature of current aviation safety issues.
Open referenceOperational issues index
A practical discovery index for operational safety subjects; official authority and manufacturer sources remain controlling where applicable.
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