Identification of Major FOD Contributors in Aviation Industry

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Author(s): Hammad Ahmed Rafiq (Centre for Advance Studies in Engineering (CASE), Pakistan), Irfan Anjum Manarvi (HITECH University Taxila, Pakistan)and Assad Iqbal (Bahria University Islamabad, Pakistan)
Copyright: 2013
Pages: 14
Source title: Business Strategies and Approaches for Effective Engineering Management
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Saqib Saeed (Department of Computer Information Systems, College of Computer Science and Information Technology, Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, Dammam, Saudi Arabia), Mohammad Ayoub Khan (Centre for Development of Advanced Computing, India)and Rizwan Ahmad (Qatar University, Qatar)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-3658-3.ch014

Keywords: Business Science Reference / Industrial Engineering / Operations and Service Management / Science & Engineering

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Aviation safety is considered of paramount importance, and the Foreign Object Debris and the resulting Foreign Object Damage (FOD) is one of the major causes that put aviation safety at risk. FOD Prevention is thus a continual challenge for all aircraft operators and maintenance crew. It costs the aviation industry millions of dollars every year. This financial effect is a result of direct costs, such as harm to aircraft structures or damage of aircraft engines, as well as the indirect costs, which include flight schedule delays, cancellations, disruptions, and additional effort for the employees. In addition, on occasion, more critical than the financial impact, is the safety impact and potential loss of human life associated with occurrences caused by FOD. It is therefore ranked as the most likely potential ground-based cause that can lead to a catastrophic aviation event. The present chapter is based on statistical analysis of aircraft occurrences attributed to various types of FOD during the last ten years of operations in an aviation organization. Eight major cause factors contributing towards these cases have been identified. A broad FOD prevention and control plan is thus proposed to address the foremost cause factors and improve organizational response to FOD. The objective of the research is to promote ground and flight safety and the preservation of assets by reducing FOD.

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