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Annual Safety Review 2014
General Aviation
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Key Safety Risk Areas for General
Aviation Fixed Wing Aeroplane
The key risk areas for GA Fixed‑Wing Aeroplane have been taken from the top Occurrence Categories as pro‑
vided in Figure 31. The key risk areas are based on their overall ranking in terms of the number of accidents
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Abnormal runway contact/Loss of control ground/Runway excursion (ARC/LOC‑G/RE)
: ARC is often
a pre‑cursor to LOC‑G and RE occurrences in GA fixed‑wing aviation, therefore for the purpose of con‑
sidering safety issues all three safety risk areas have been combined.
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Loss Of Control – In flight (LOC‑I)
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System Component Failure (SCF)
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Ground Collision (GCOL)
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Low Altitude Operations (LALT)
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Fuel related occurrences (FUEL)
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Controlled Flight Into Terrain (CFIT)
12 For a complete list of CICTT occurrence categories, refer to Appendix 1.