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Analyzing a Mid-Air Collision Over the Hudson River

Published 2019-07-12 From Langley Research Center 2 authors
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Abstract

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On August 8, 2009, a private airplane collided with a sightseeing helicopter over the Hudson River near Hoboken, New Jersey. All three people aboard the airplane, the pilot and two passengers, and all six people aboard the helicopter, the pilot and five passengers, were killed. The National Transportation Safety Board report on the accident identified inherent limitations of the see-and-avoid concept, inadequate regulations, and errors by the pilots and an air traffic controller as causing or contributing to the accident. This paper presents the results of analyzing the accident using the Systems-Theoretic Accident Model and Processes (STAMP) approach to determining accident causation.

Authors

  • Brown, Sean Brown Univ.
  • Holloway, C. Michael NASA Langley Research Center

Citation: Brown, Sean, Holloway, C. Michael (2019). Analyzing a Mid-Air Collision Over the Hudson River. Langley Research Center. NASA NTRS ID 20120013555. https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/20120013555 ↗