Ground

Stationary operations: parking, boarding, servicing, refuelling and maintenance.

Ground occurrences include fires during refuelling or servicing, evacuation injuries, ground-handling damage that later becomes an airworthiness problem, and events during maintenance ground runs.

Related terms

Taxi

Manoeuvring on the ground under the aircraft's own power. The phase where runway incursions happen.

Human Factors (Maintenance)

An engineering or maintenance action — a part fitted wrongly, an inspection missed, a repair done off-manual — contributed to the accident.

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