The Fundamentals Of Ethics And Morals In Aviation

Abstract

In aviation people tend to obey the principle of ethics and morals. Ethics is more in some situation they tend to have more self-interest. The person mindset is either good or bad. There morals determine how they were raised and depict what is good and bad. In situations on a day to day industry they develop a way to help people with their ethics. Since ethics have principles and theories they determine what and how they get to a problem and solve it. In accidents that occur it helps people to find solutions that may help with aviation or to prevent the mistakes to occur. Two of which I have spoken are wire and a pilot which both have ethics and human factors. Human factors are 12 problems that a human might have from fatigue to the lack of resources. It may be from ethics and morals or safety ethics that help people to prevent accidents to occur again down the line. That and how it was develop and where it may help in the future from preventing the problem to occur again.

Ethics and Morals

One thing about life is what we learn from our past and what we get from it. It may also be that we get our principles during work. You may wonder what I’m talking about, is ethics and moral, but you may be asking what does these two have to do with anything. What is ethics, it’s impossible to define the term some people may say it means rules of conduct, values, affirming specified group, field, or form of conduct, but another way of saying Beabout and Wennemann said “How to live life well”. Now what are principle there the fundamental truth or position that serves as the foundation for a system, but there are six of principle in corresponding duty. What those six principles are autonomy, non-maleficence, beneficence, Justice, truth-telling, Promise keeping. Autonomy to respect others. Non-maleficence not to inflict harm to others. Beneficence It to promote good to others. Justice Give others what is owed or due to them. Truth-telling don’t intentionally deceive. Promise-keeping Be faithful to just agreements. Beabout and Wennerman also talks about ethics theories with their strengths and weaknesses which are Egoism, Conventional Morality, Unitarianism Duty ethics, Virtue ethics. Ethics in how they describe them for each is egoism is selfness but can’t decide which one, morality is conform to one society and the weakness if two groups are involve, Unitarianism is the judgement that benefits majority of people might inflict with personal gain, duty ethics one’s moral duty might be for the company or family, Virtue ethics for wisdom, justice…etc. the weakness is varies in time of the person. Ethics plays a role in everyone, but in all ethics is a skilled based decision that may or not affect the outcome. Now morals are more of a lesson that a person might experience from when they were a kid. Moral some way is a group specific in a point in time. A short way of defining moral is baggage with experience or a principle between good and bad. About half or less than half think that moral requires sacrifices between amoral and immoral to for a while to have an interest that benefits society. The difference between them are ethics are principles that one must follow, and morals are the way of the person life on how they decide without principles but understand the good and the bad.

Safety ethics and aviation

Safety ethics it’s an ethical challenge day to day with respect to safety decision, by the profession healthcare, and occupation and environmental health. Ethics is how to live life and safety ethics helps people with their profession. Ethics has more in common in outside or in of work and safety ethics are place into work. Safety ethics is more of a safety net that can catch a problem, so it can be fixed right away to whoever it may be. Aviation in federal aviation administration (FAA) ethics, moral and safety ethics are used, and it helps keeps more people in line for their profession. In this profession in aviation what is more less likely to be used is ethics. Due to how fewer plane crashes are cause by it seems, but let’s talk about American Airline Flight 1 where it began. In this incident the main problem was wiring. This accident which help later with life was to check the wiring. Now technician or inspectors probably didn’t check to see if the wires were damage or just wanted to get done with the aircraft, but in aviation nothing can be to bring people back

Accidents

In this incident which it crashed is named “Runway Overrun During Landing, American Airlines Flight 1420, McDonnell Douglas MD-82” (NTSB). In this location of the accident that occur at little rock Arkansas. This reported the issue of why it crashed was that due to a few human errors that follow the human factors. Human factors are problems that the human have by themselves or groups. Which follows another safety issue and it’s stress and fatigue that has one probable cause that the aircraft had crash. The reason why it should be is that no one can perform a job when they are stress and fatigue. In this moral is involve with technician approval which the other caused might have been was maximum crosswind which can affect the planes components that one engineer might have not of notice and had to implement it or no replacement to it. In the end it took 11 people with the captain due to his mistakes of being fatigue and 105 were in serious or minor injury. The issues were brought up to FAA and National weather service. During these plane crashes they hardly used truth-telling which helps people keep at bay for a moment to ensure that everything is done with the plane. There should be no mistakes that people take when it comes to this. People are risking their lives not knowing what they haven’t been told and yet commercial airplanes do whatever is done to gain a quick buck. Yet they also break another principle non-maleficence airplane are supposed to take you to one location to another not make it past the incline make it to the location and the landing gear isn’t place correctly, or corrosion. Yet at the end the person does get their justice, but more people died, and it should only take a second to stop it from flying and do all the repairs. They lose 250,000$ a year but those numbers are to ensure that the plane works correctly. As of 2019 Some people who have them are telling people not to go onto which one due to people who wanted to airborne a plane to make some cash. In this incident it’s called Crash “During Takeoff in Icing Conditions” there was one fatal injury of three people out of the six. During the history of the flight the location was at Montrose reginal airport where it was snowing. The group of six people were consisting of a captain, flight attendant, three passenger and first officer. It was stated that the airplane landed on runaway 17 on Van Nuys where it was ramp at a fixed-base operator for about 40 to 45 mins. A pilot who was certified stated that there seem to appear that the snow on the aircraft that lead to one of the disasters. Another person who was a lineman who was fueling the plane stated, “there appeared to be snow on the accident airplane’s wings, but he could not tell how much” (2006, May 2, p. 9). It was also stated that the fuel truck was kept outside and unheated. The lineman said something to the accident flight crewmembers to deice the plane, which none of the crew didn’t do and left it as it was. Later the first officer didn’t provide information regarding the incident. Due to their time in flight there was a record that had everything he said about the engine bleed, wings, location of where it was landing and throughout the flight a passenger said it look like it showered. In the end the alarm came up and the aircraft wing dropped, and the plane went into a angle that killed the captain, flight attendant, and a passage. One witness who seen what happened when the plane fell and drop like bricks said, “violently slammed back to the right” (2006, May 2, p. 9). What happened to the plane both engines were consumed in fire the wings were 216 feet away from the debris and the impact crater was about 62 inches. Records later shows the total flight hours and days it’s been on flight and what happened to the other three people. Probable cause was the wings themselves since no one wanted to deice the wings and the captain was lacking winter condition experience.

Both Scenarios

Now with both scenarios most problems can be fixed if the person knew right away, but we are only human capable of doing our limit of our knowledge. Now the information that they got might have help the industry respond and to solve them quickly. Yet people need to understand what they need to do to get the job done the first time. It may take them longer, but the quality of an aircraft is more important than the money, but it may be the opposite if it was the manager position and the money is important than the quality. It must be balanced with ethics and morals it changes everyone or a person that may help them or not depending about deciding on what they must do in order to prevent things from happening. In the “Crash During Takeoff in Icing Conditions” was another cause where people interest for telling the truth was there and non-maleficence when both the pilot didn’t say a word about it. When the fuel truck was unheated and kept outside it may be due to some factor of an explosion but done correctly would still cause problems that might have got some drips of water inside the aircraft that may have gone differently. The only one who had morals was the lineman guy which only helped to his side and none of the others which didn’t do anything. When the officer didn’t want to say anything even though he was there a bit of truth-telling is what he didn’t want to say. I guess that his duty ethic was to pretend it didn’t happen. Close to the end since the evidence was shown that they did have something to say it was later that the plan was blown up and due to their ethics with some human factors and they were lacking teamwork, communication and knowledge. Due to this accident they needed up fixing to prevent these problems occurring again.

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