Review of Aircraft Crash Reports and Engine Pod Location

Abstract

One of the biggest achievements of mankind has been the rapid growth in the aerospace industry. Despite the huge progress in aviation sector; human errors, equipment malfunctions as well as unusual events occur and therefore accidents still do take place. Aircraft crashes are studied from year 2000 till 2020. From this extensive study of crash reports, it was found out that major crashes happened due to structural failures which included the engine. In the past 50 years, over 1900 accidents have occurred worldwide. Due to problems in engines and different locations of engines many crashes have happened. 111 crash investigation reports are studied. For focusing on below-wing engine pod location airport handling manuals produced by OEMs like Airbus and Boeing are used. Engine pod location data produced by scatter plot gives prominent idea about, engine pod location data of various aircrafts. Common engine pod position is between 20% and 40% of wingspan from FRL. Outliers exist in scatter plot, for which the extreme case, Antonov An-225 Mriya, has it's 3rd engine at ~ 55% of wingspan.