Author
Listed:
- Wang, Wenchao
- He, Jian
- Wang, Jingjing
Abstract
The insufficient hazard management capacity of general aviation enterprises has led to frequent safety incidents and placed the industry in a persistent safety dilemma. Enhancing hazard identification and control is therefore critical to improving the current unstable safety situation. This paper proposes an evidence-based analytical approach to systematically examine hazard causation in general aviation, integrating factors across human, technical, environmental, and managerial domains. Drawing on accident chain theory, a risk coefficient-based optimization model is developed, and an evidence-based hazard tracing method is constructed within the EBAS-HO framework, which builds upon and improves the HOP-HFACS model. Grey Relational Analysis and structural entropy theory are employed to assess hazard interactions and system structure. Results. The analysis of 43 accident cases identifies six key hazard factors: safety production cost, human error, occupational factors, emergency preparedness, technical safety measures, and environmental conditions. In addition, violations behavior serves as a critical mediating factor linking other variables to accident occurrence. Comparative model evaluation demonstrates that the proposed EBAS-HO framework outperforms traditional HFACS in terms of accuracy, structure, and predictive capability. Compared to conventional hazard identification approaches, the integration of evidence-based tracing and control enhances the visibility and traceability of system hazards, enabling more targeted safety interventions. This approach substantially improves hazard governance and safety management capacity in the general aviation sector.
Suggested Citation
Wang, Wenchao & He, Jian & Wang, Jingjing, 2025.
"Evidence-based analysis on the hazard causation of general aviation in China,"
Journal of Air Transport Management, Elsevier, vol. 128(C).
Handle:
RePEc:eee:jaitra:v:128:y:2025:i:c:s0969699725001206
DOI: 10.1016/j.jairtraman.2025.102857
Download full text from publisher
As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to
for a different version of it.
Corrections
All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:eee:jaitra:v:128:y:2025:i:c:s0969699725001206. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.
If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.
We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .
If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.
For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Catherine Liu (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-air-transport-management/ .
Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through
the various RePEc services.