Ethics in Aviation

    "The effects of encountering volcanic ash during flight."           Encountering volcanic ash in-flight has been known to have damaging effects on aircraft such as surface abrasion, and loss of pilot visibility. When ash is sucked into jet engines, it can melt and then re-solidify in cooler parts of the engine reducing the performance, and even causing engine stress.            It has been known also that volcanic ash can cause avionics and electrical equipment to fail. " Encounters of Aircraft with Volcanic Ash Clouds: A Compilation of Known Incidents, 1953-2009  documents 79 damaging  ash /aircraft encounters. Twenty-six of those involved significant to very severe aircraft damage, including nine encounters where engine failure occurred during the flight."    (Volcano Hazards Program, 2015)   Luckily, according to the NTSB , there have been no known plane crashes or fatalities recorded ...

     In the aviation profession, ethics means caring about the well-being of others and doing the right thing every time. Aviation jobs can easily become monotonous, but we all know what the right thing to do is. The morality of an aviation professional has the power to save lives because the people who are relying on you to do your job the correct way are people who don't know how to protect themselves aside from what you teach them to do in emergency situations. It is not the sole responsibility of one person to ensure that an aircraft is safe, it is the collective effort of several people in several professions that make flying safe. I believe that ethics in aviation is important because aviation professionals hold the power to save lives and keep passengers and personnel safe. There are many examples of this throughout aviation history including the famous landing in the Hudson River by "Sully". If it were not for the collective efforts of Sully, his co-pilot, and ...