AVIATION SAFETY AND SECURITY: utilizing technology to prevent aircraft fatality
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Author -- List of Abbreviations -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: History of Security Events -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Threat and the Use of Violence in Aviation -- 2.3 Murder at the Controls of an Aircraft -- 2.4 The Second World War, and the Immediate Period Thereafter -- 2.5 The Late 1950s and 1960s -- 2.6 The 1970s Onwards -- 2.7 Conclusions -- Chapter 3: Flight Data Recorders and Cockpit Voice Recorders -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Flight Instrument Recording -- 3.3 Certification and Flight Instrument Recording -- 3.4 Decoding Flight Instrument Data from Data Recorders -- 3.5 Conclusions -- Chapter 4: Flight Controls and Environmental Control Systems -- 4.1 Relevance of Flight Controls Air-Conditioning Systems and Commercial Aviation -- 4.2 Comparing the Underlying Philosophy of Flight Controls for Airbus and Boeing -- 4.3 Air-Conditioning Systems and Commercial Aviation -- 4.4 Conclusions -- Chapter 5: Use of Live Aircraft Data in Aircraft Maintenance Management -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Aircraft Maintenance Management and Its Commercial Importance -- 5.2.1 Maintenance Planning by the Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) -- 5.2.2 Unscheduled Maintenance -- 5.2.3 Minimum Standards of Equipment of Systems -- Master Minimum Equipment List -- 5.2.4 Component Reliability and Maintenance Strategy -- 5.2.5 Bathtub Curve for Reliability and Mathematical Predictions -- 5.3 Technical Components Combined with Data Logging -- 5.4 Live Streamed Data and Radio Communication Technologies -- 5.4.1 ACARS -- 5.4.2 British Airways Engineering Maintenance Management -- 5.5 Data Mining of Very Large Data Bases and Commercial Solutions to Predictive Maintenance -- 5.5.1 Rolls Royce Commercial Engines -- 5.5.2 Airbus, Palantir and Skywise.