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<h2>7.5.1 Aircraft Accident Investigation</h2>
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<p style="padding-left: 80px; padding-right: 90px;"><em>"When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth."</em></p>
<p style="padding-left: 340px;">- Sherlock Holmes<br /> Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, <em>The Sign of the Four</em> (1890)</p>
<p>Despite our best efforts to ensure the safety of aerospace systems, unfortunately accidents do happen. When they occur, it is the job of the accident investigation team to collect evidence, examine various hypotheses, determine the factor(s) that contributed to the accident, and if appropriate, make recommendations for future improvement. In the following video, Prof. Hoffman takes us through the steps of an aircraft accident investigation, using as an example the 1995 crash of American Airlines Flight 965 en route to Cali, Colombia.</p>
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<h3>Researching Aircraft Accidents</h3>
<p style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 25.6000003814697px;">This section is provided to help students who would like to learn more about specific aircraft accidents.</p>
<p style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 25.6000003814697px;">Wikipedia is a helpful tool to learn about aircraft accidents, but should NOT be trusted as a primary source of research, since the origins of its information cannot always be determined. You should always track down the original accident investigation report where possible. In the United States, the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) is charged with investigating aircraft accidents and is a great resource. Many other countries have similar agencies that handle aircraft accident investigations. Listed below are some resources to get you started on your research. Please feel free to suggest additional resources in the discussion forum.</p>
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<li>Worldwide: <a href="http://aviation-safety.net/investigation/aaibs.php" target="[object Object]">List of aircraft accident investigation board by country</a></li>
<li>US (NTSB): <a href=" http://www.ntsb.gov/_layouts/ntsb.aviation/index.aspx" target="[object Object]">Searchable database of aviation accidents</a></li>
<li>US (NTSB): <a href="http://library.erau.edu/find/online-full-text/ntsb/aircraft-accident-reports.html" target="[object Object]">Library of NTSB aircraft accident reports sorted by year</a></li>
<li>Canada (Transportation Safety Board): <a href="http://www.tsb.gc.ca/eng/rapports-reports/aviation/index.asp" target="[object Object]">Aviation investigation reports</a></li>
<li>UK (Air Accidents Investigation Branch): <a href="http://www.aaib.gov.uk/publications/index.cfm" target="[object Object]">AAIB publications database</a> </li>
<li>India (Air Accident Investigaton Bureau): <a href="http://dgca.gov.in/accident/reports/contents_acc_rep.htm" target="[object Object]">Accident investigation reports</a></li>
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