THE FINAL PHASE OF THE FLIGHT OF AIRCRAFT AS AN ELEMENT OF CRISIS MANAGEMENT IN AVIATION

Abstract

Airline companies have a fundamental existential need to operate in a highly regulated environment. In order to accurately plan their activities and achieve their strategic objectives concerning the safety of the passengers and freight, they should provide a highly competitive labor market in which safety control would be a key point. In conditions of high competitiveness of the ideas, events, or commercial success, the risk must be constantly analyzed and controlled in all respects. The risk itself exists as long as the mankind. It is a complex, ongoing, inevitable and uncertain phenomenon, which is a part of our lives. Concerning aviation, the risk is present both on the ground and in the air. The risks are particularly present during the transport of passengers and goods. Proactive planning and responsibility of  the airline companies allows managers to control, influence and solve the crisis, diminishing the possibility of its occurrence. Many theorists, in an attempt to make a definition, equate the crisis management with actions in emergency situations. Crisis management in aviation can be defined as a set of functions or processes that are designed to identify, investigate and predict potential crises and to establish specific procedures that will enable the company to prevent a crisis and to overcome it.

Editor’s note: This article is too large to fit into any one of our issues. But, due to specific thematic and its importance, we have decided to run it as a two part series. The first of these, below, features the introduction, the aviation history and crises management in the aviation. Part II, to appear in our third issue, contains most of the analysis of the main problems of landing, and ends with the authors’ conclusion and bibliography.