What the profile screens for
Recorded door, slide, evacuation, engine, fire, or aircraft-state signals indicate activation of an emergency evacuation sequence.
Why it matters
Evacuation analysis connects the initiating event, aircraft configuration, exits, hazards, timing, and emergency response.
Build the event around relationships—not one number.
Define the operating context
Identify the taxi / rejected takeoff / landing state, aircraft configuration, location, and any required external data before applying logic.
Screen the signal relationship
Use validated combinations of door state, slide armed or deployed, engine state; 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.
Engine thrust
One or more recorded measures of commanded or produced propulsion; the correct signal depends on engine and aircraft type.
Open parameter guide ↗psi, bar, or %Brake pressure
Hydraulic pressure or command associated with wheel braking; it is not a direct measurement of tyre/runway friction.
Open parameter guide ↗discreteLanding gear status
Command, position, lock, and ground-sensing states associated with the landing gear; these are separate signals with different meanings.
Open parameter guide ↗Questions before conclusions
- Q1
Are door state, slide armed or deployed, engine state valid, correctly decoded, time-aligned, and sampled well enough for this event?
- Q2
What changed immediately before, during, and after the evacuation-system activation 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.
Smoke and fire detection
Detection coverage, warning reliability, false indications, source isolation, suppression, ventilation, and continued monitoring after an alert.
Open topic profile ↗SAT-052 · Powerplant & fuelEngine fire
Confirmed or suspected engine, nacelle, pylon, or auxiliary power fire requiring warning assessment, isolation, suppression, and landing strategy.
Open topic profile ↗SAT-083 · Cabin, cargo & dangerous goodsEmergency evacuation
Decision, command, aircraft configuration, exit selection, slide use, occupant flow, external hazards, and rescue coordination during evacuation.
Open topic profile ↗SAT-086 · Cabin, cargo & dangerous goodsAircraft door operations
Arming, disarming, opening, closing, cross-checking, indication, pressure risk, slide deployment, and coordination around aircraft doors.
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.
Annual 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 sourceSAFO 25003 — Addressing Risk Associated with Passenger Non-Compliance and Retention of Carry-On Baggage and Personal Items During Emergency Evacuations
Official U.S. Federal Aviation Administration material indexed for cabin and cargo and emergency preparedness. Open the publisher source for the complete document, scope, and current status.
Open official sourceSAFO 08017 — Embraer ERJ-170/190 — Unintended Deployment of the Emergency Evacuation Escape Slide
Official U.S. Federal Aviation Administration material indexed for cabin and cargo and emergency preparedness. Open the publisher source for the complete document, scope, and current status.
Open official sourcePreventing Inadvertent Slide Deployments
Official Airbus Safety First material indexed for cabin and cargo. Open the publisher source for the complete document, scope, and current status.
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 source