What the profile screens for
Recorded smoke, ventilation, avionics, or air-quality warning data indicate a possible occupied-area or equipment-bay smoke event.
Why it matters
Smoke source uncertainty, toxicity, visibility, system effects, and time to landing make early detection and context critical.
Build the event around relationships—not one number.
Define the operating context
Identify the taxi / takeoff / climb / cruise / descent / approach / landing state, aircraft configuration, location, and any required external data before applying logic.
Screen the signal relationship
Use validated combinations of smoke warning, ventilation state, recirculation fan; avoid treating one isolated value as the whole event.
Confirm it is a genuine event
Check polarity, units, source, recording rate, dropouts, air/ground logic, persistence, and false-positive mechanisms.
Connect data to the safety question
Review procedures, reports, weather, airport and traffic context, exposure, recurrence, and the strength of the related barriers.
Recorded signals that may help explain the event.
These signals are not yet represented by a separate ASIP parameter guide.
Questions before conclusions
- Q1
Are smoke warning, ventilation state, recirculation fan valid, correctly decoded, time-aligned, and sampled well enough for this event?
- Q2
What changed immediately before, during, and after the cabin or avionics smoke warning indication?
- Q3
How do aircraft configuration, weather, airport geometry, automation state, and crew reports change the interpretation?
- Q4
Which current flight manual, SOP, maintenance, or operator event definition controls the final conclusion?
Safety topics that broaden the event review.
Flight-control system failure
Failure or degradation of primary or secondary controls, actuators, computers, sensors, protections, or associated indication.
Open topic profile ↗SAT-050 · Aircraft systems & airworthinessDeferred defect management
Risk control when dispatching with permitted inoperative equipment, including combinations, intervals, procedures, placards, and operational context.
Open topic profile ↗SAT-051 · Powerplant & fuelEngine failure in flight
Loss or severe degradation of propulsion after liftoff, including aircraft control, diagnosis, restart, shutdown, diversion, and landing considerations.
Open topic profile ↗SAT-059 · Powerplant & fuelEDTO fuel planning
Fuel strategy for extended diversion operations, including critical fuel scenarios, alternates, weather, system status, and diversion time.
Open topic profile ↗SAT-082 · Cabin, cargo & dangerous goodsCabin smoke and fumes
Detection, reporting, source identification, crew protection, communication, diversion, and occupant effects during smoke, odor, or fume events.
Open topic profile ↗SAT-087 · Cabin, cargo & dangerous goodsCargo loading
Planning, restraint, distribution, loading, offloading, documentation, special cargo, damage prevention, and verification before flight.
Open topic profile ↗SAT-088 · Cabin, cargo & dangerous goodsDangerous goods
Identification, classification, packaging, declaration, acceptance, segregation, loading, notification, response, and undeclared hazardous material.
Open topic profile ↗SAT-090 · Cabin, cargo & dangerous goodsUnruly passenger
Prevention, recognition, de-escalation, communication, restraint, diversion, reporting, and crew or passenger protection during disruptive behavior.
Open topic profile ↗Fire and Smoke
View fire safety as detection, containment, checklist action, diversion, evacuation, and rescue barriers.
Open topic brief ↗Safety ManagementSafety Management Systems
Connect policy, risk management, assurance, and promotion so hazards are controlled and performance is reviewed over time.
Open topic brief ↗Human FactorsHuman Factors and Fatigue
Study how workload, fatigue, expectation, communication, interface design, and organizational conditions shape performance.
Open topic brief ↗12 useful starting points
Terminology and topic relationships select these links; the publisher source remains authoritative.
SAFO 18003 — SAFO 18003, Procedures for Addressing Odors, Smoke and/or Fumes In-Flight
Official U.S. Federal Aviation Administration material indexed for fire and smoke. Open the publisher source for the complete document, scope, and current status.
Open official sourceThe SMOKE-FUMES-AVNCS SMOKE Procedure
Official Airbus Safety First material indexed for fire and smoke. Open the publisher source for the complete document, scope, and current status.
Open official sourceAnnual Safety Review 2025
EASA's review uses occurrence and accident information to describe performance across aviation domains and to support the European safety-risk-management process.
Open official sourceSafety Management Manual (Doc 9859), Fourth Edition
ICAO's fourth-edition manual explains how safety data, risk management, assurance, culture, and governance work together in State and service-provider safety management.
Open official sourceAnnex 19 — Safety Management, Third Edition
Annex 19 consolidates ICAO safety-management provisions, including State safety responsibilities, SMS, safety-data collection and processing, and the protection and sharing of safety information.
Open official sourceStatistical Summary of Commercial Jet Airplane Accidents, 1959–2024
Boeing's 56th annual statistical summary organizes commercial-jet accident data using stated definitions and the CAST/ICAO occurrence taxonomy.
Open official sourceIATA Annual Safety Report — 2024
IATA's 61st annual report provides an interactive, method-defined view of commercial aviation accident performance and contributing-factor classifications.
Open official sourceAC 120-92D — Safety Management Systems for Aviation Service Providers
FAA guidance explains performance-based, scalable approaches to integrating safety policy, risk management, assurance, and promotion into aviation organizations.
Open official sourceGo-Around Decision-Making and Execution Project — Final Report
The Flight Safety Foundation project examines go-around policy compliance, decision biases, operational pressures, and the risks that also need to be managed during go-around execution.
Open official sourceCAP 739 — Flight Data Monitoring, Second Edition
CAP 739 presents FDM as the systematic, proactive use of routine digital flight data within a non-punitive, just safety culture.
Open official sourceAC 120-82 — Flight Operational Quality Assurance
Active FAA guidance describes one acceptable way to establish a voluntary FOQA programme using de-identified aggregate flight data to identify and reduce operational risk.
Open official sourceSAFO 21003 — SAFO 21003, Inspection of Lavatory Fire Extinguishing Bottles on Aircraft Parked or Stored for a Prolonged Period of Time in a High-Temperature Environment
Official U.S. Federal Aviation Administration material indexed for fire and smoke and maintenance. Open the publisher source for the complete document, scope, and current status.
Open official source