Exploring National Transportation Safety Board Aviation Modality Recommendations Through Content and Sentiment Analyses: 2015–2019

Aviation safety recommendations are the National Transportation Safety Board’s key mechanism for effecting improvements and curtailing subsequent accidents. Aviation safety recommendations and their associated correspondence have been minimally explored in the extant literature, potentially overlook...

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Main Author: Brian J. Roggow
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Published: MDPI AG 2025-06-01
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description Aviation safety recommendations are the National Transportation Safety Board’s key mechanism for effecting improvements and curtailing subsequent accidents. Aviation safety recommendations and their associated correspondence have been minimally explored in the extant literature, potentially overlooking constrained versus successful risk mitigation themes. This research aimed to qualitatively explore 187 aviation safety recommendations using a framework adapted from the SHELL model. The research also examined the recommendations’ correspondence content to illuminate the characteristics typical of positive versus negative sentiments. The results included risk mitigation themes distributed across the categories of addressees, report statuses, and reiterations. Addressing company, management, manning, or regulatory issues was the most prevalent risk mitigation strategy, followed by physical environment and other human-system support mitigations. The sentiment analyses’ results included distributions across addressees, statuses, time, reiterations, and correspondences. NTSB and addressee correspondence sentiments remained mostly consistent over time and interactions, whereas differences were observed based on addressees and unacceptable report statuses. This article offers the first systematic analysis of NTSB aviation safety recommendations’ risk mitigation themes and addressee correspondences.
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spelling doaj-art-0cbc79c3906d4d68a81f34a76d2d82b52025-06-25T14:24:45ZengMDPI AGSafety2313-576X2025-06-011125410.3390/safety11020054Exploring National Transportation Safety Board Aviation Modality Recommendations Through Content and Sentiment Analyses: 2015–2019Brian J. Roggow0Robertson Safety Institute, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, 3700 Willow Creek Rd., Prescott, AZ 86301, USAAviation safety recommendations are the National Transportation Safety Board’s key mechanism for effecting improvements and curtailing subsequent accidents. Aviation safety recommendations and their associated correspondence have been minimally explored in the extant literature, potentially overlooking constrained versus successful risk mitigation themes. This research aimed to qualitatively explore 187 aviation safety recommendations using a framework adapted from the SHELL model. The research also examined the recommendations’ correspondence content to illuminate the characteristics typical of positive versus negative sentiments. The results included risk mitigation themes distributed across the categories of addressees, report statuses, and reiterations. Addressing company, management, manning, or regulatory issues was the most prevalent risk mitigation strategy, followed by physical environment and other human-system support mitigations. The sentiment analyses’ results included distributions across addressees, statuses, time, reiterations, and correspondences. NTSB and addressee correspondence sentiments remained mostly consistent over time and interactions, whereas differences were observed based on addressees and unacceptable report statuses. This article offers the first systematic analysis of NTSB aviation safety recommendations’ risk mitigation themes and addressee correspondences.https://www.mdpi.com/2313-576X/11/2/54aviation safetysafety recommendationsrisk mitigationaccident investigationcontent analysissentiment analysis
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Exploring National Transportation Safety Board Aviation Modality Recommendations Through Content and Sentiment Analyses: 2015–2019
Safety
aviation safety
safety recommendations
risk mitigation
accident investigation
content analysis
sentiment analysis
title Exploring National Transportation Safety Board Aviation Modality Recommendations Through Content and Sentiment Analyses: 2015–2019
title_full Exploring National Transportation Safety Board Aviation Modality Recommendations Through Content and Sentiment Analyses: 2015–2019
title_fullStr Exploring National Transportation Safety Board Aviation Modality Recommendations Through Content and Sentiment Analyses: 2015–2019
title_full_unstemmed Exploring National Transportation Safety Board Aviation Modality Recommendations Through Content and Sentiment Analyses: 2015–2019
title_short Exploring National Transportation Safety Board Aviation Modality Recommendations Through Content and Sentiment Analyses: 2015–2019
title_sort exploring national transportation safety board aviation modality recommendations through content and sentiment analyses 2015 2019
topic aviation safety
safety recommendations
risk mitigation
accident investigation
content analysis
sentiment analysis
url https://www.mdpi.com/2313-576X/11/2/54
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