VMC vs IMC Weather Conditions - The major contributors
VMC (Visual Meteorological Conditions)
The meteorological conditions and scenarios in which a pilot can retain sufficient and safe views of all other aircraft and the ground around them are referred to as VMC conditions. Visibility, cloud ceilings, and cloud clearances are all elements that influence VMC.
IMC (Instrument Meteorological Conditions)
The term "IMC " refers to a scenario in which visibility and weather force the pilot to rely on his or her instruments, resulting in an IFR flight. This is usually done when flying through clouds or in terrible weather in general.
Why is it that the vast majority of accidents occur during VMC weather conditions and during which phase of flight is it most common?
The majority of the incidents in the dataset occur in VMC weather, which is ideal for flying since VMC demands more visibility and cloud clearing than IMC. Because most aircraft fly during this weather, there are more accidents reported during VMC conditions. The majority of mishaps, according to the data, happen during the landing and take-off stages of a flight. The industry recognizes that these are high-risk periods, which are often referred to as "sensitive phases of flight."
Please refer the below Video to understand Why most plane crashes occur during takeoff or landing so that we can get more context on the Analysis of the above Bubble Hierarchy chart.
Aviation Types and the contribution of accidents from each:
Aviation includes a lot of vehicles and this Dataset is collection of all the Aircrafts put together. Hence it is important to understand the what type of aircraft has contributed to how many accidents. This helps us get to know which are the major contributers and delve deep analysis on it to thus contain the accidents.
Using the data above let us analyse the Aircrafts and it Fatalities rate:
From this we can understand which means of Aircraft carrier is contributing for the maximum percentage of Fatal accidents and we get the below observation.
-->As seen in the above bar graph, we know that there are various types of aircraft, the most amount of fatal injuries are observed in a Gyrocraft at 38%.
-->This is followed by a weight shift at 29% and Flight at 26%.
-->The least percentage of fatal injuries are experienced in a balloon at just7%
In the Section-2 we have done the basic root cause analysis and it is now important the critical element and do more deep analysis of the contribution factors and this will be coverd in the Section - 3.