A preliminary assessment by the Indian authorities said fuel was cut off to both engines shortly before Air India Flight 171 crashed last month, appearing to rule out mechanical failure or design ...

Civil aviation flight accidents are commonly recognized as low probability events. For the purpose of rational assessment of flight accident risk, information diffusion technique is adopted to develop ...

This paper addresses the problem of autonomous transition between hover and level flight for a model-scale fixed-wing Unmanned Air Vehicle (UAV). The UAV system is described as a Hybrid Automaton ...