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Title: Taking data to a Higher Plane

Author: Temin, Thomas R Article Type: Product Analysis
Source: Government Computer News, v23 n14 p10(2) Publication Date: Jun 14, 2004
  ISSN: 0738-4300
  Illustrations: Charts
URL of Publication: http://www.gcn.com

Because U.S. air routes have too many near-misses, the Federal Aviation Administration office is looking into data analysis tools for possible use by airlines to determine possible unnoticed conditions or chains of events that point to possible accidents. The emphasis is on data because the FAA gets large quantities of data that is generated by flight data recorders. Airlines algorithm output piles of unstructured text from forms that are filled out by flight, ramp, and maintenance crews. Christopher Hart, FAA assistant administrator for system safety, is convinced that if such data stores can be analyzed for patterns, indicators of the causes of near misses and accidents would become known before those events occur. Although the data and analysis of it are proprietary to the airlines, Hart wants to create a market in the airline industry for analytical tools. The FAA does not analyze data, but assist the airlines in analyzing their own. Hart wants to make the tools broadly available at low cost, and his office is working with three leading carriers and two air industry trade associations that have volunteered to supply large data sets confidentially from their own operations.

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