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Designing an NHTSA Crash Injury Research Analog Program for General Aviation / Advanced Air Mobility
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2023-07-01
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Abstract:The MITRE Corporation was tasked by the Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA’s) Office of Aerospace Medicine (FAA-AAM) to benchmark the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s Crash Injury Research and Engineering Network (CIREN) and develop an analogous program focused on general aviation (GA) crashes with potential extensibility to Advanced Air Mobility (AAM). The resulting program model proposed in this document is referred to as GA/AAM CIREN. After benchmarking the current CIREN program, experts responsible for collecting and processing fatal GA accident and injury data were consulted. While CIREN is operationally very different from FAA crash investigation processes, the program has elements that the FAA can replicate to collect similar data for injury causation research. The FAA gathers GA crash scene, aircraft, and autopsy data for its own needs and to support National Transportation Safety Board investigations. However, the data collected are not typically sufficiently detailed for assigning occupant injury causation. The FAA can use the program model and implementation plan presented here as a framework for collecting and conducting CIREN-like data and research with existing FAA resources and expertise. If the proposed pilot study proves feasible, a longer-term program to research fatal GA crashes and those from emerging aircraft could be established.
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