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AVIATION ACCIDENT INVESTIGATORS
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Abstract
The aviation industry is exposed to numerous problems, especially those that deal with accidents.
When an accident has taken place, there are teams of investigators that are assigned to perform
an investigation on the cause of the accident and what could be done to avoid the possibility of
the accident occurring the future again. However, numerous issues are involved in the
investigation, making it quite difficult to perform. Various human factors are associated with
threats, stress, and illnesses such as post-traumatic stress disorder. When an accident has
occurred, investigators have to be assigned to different scenes so that they can ascertain the
caused accident. During this process, the first challenges come from the media and to the
relatives of the people involved in the accident, making them vulnerable to giving wrong reports
because of the pressure. Hence, the investigators have to identify human factors that can affect
the investigation and know of methods of dealing with them to give the most appropriate reports.
This paper will analyse key human performance elements being an aviation accident investigator
including influences from the physical perspectives and psychological perspectives that effect an
investigator and potential strategies of managing it.
Keywords : Human factors in aviation, investigators, accident investigators, aviation, plane crash,
human factors analysis classification system, human error,

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Introduction
Aviation investigators are charged with numerous activities, including traveling to
various locations to conduct an investigation. In their line of duty, they face many challenges,
including having to sustain the pressure of wanting to give the right information. Additionally,
the investigators have to deal with the physical barriers and changes in climate to perform their
roles of finding the cause of an accident. Some of the issues that the investigators face come
from the human factors that prevent them from performing their roles as required. It is therefore
important that these human factors are managed or coped with in a better manner. Hence, it is the
responsibility of the management to recognize the problems that they go through so that they can
contribute towards the accuracy of the information (Low et al., 2018, 34). The most common
human factors include fatigue, stress, PTSD, among others. Coping with fatigue is difficult
because of its involuntary. It requires extensive preparation from the management and aviation
instigators themselves (Shearer et al., 2016, S165). This work presents a critical evaluation of the
key human performance elements of being an aviation accident investigator such as include
fatigue, stress, PTSD, and the potential strategies that can be used to manage these elements.