But the founder of America's Flight Safety foundation, Jerome Lederer, commented that evacuation of such numbers in the event of disaster would be troublesome. Sitting next to an emergency exit did not promise anything, as shown by this tragedy. Only a bare few escaped and only as fate had it. These were the musings of many when dead bodies were brought down by helicopters from Mount Osutaka in bright blankets (Magnuson, Aviation Safety Network, AAIC, BBC, BBC (. This disaster and others before and subsequent call for more responsive prevention measures to save lives in this era of massive global air travel. VII. Recommendations

The Safety Promotion Center was opened in 2006 to train employees and alert them to the importance of airline safety and personal responsibility for safety. The ultimate responsibility falls squarely on the shoulders of Japan Airlines and the Japanese government. Japan's reported refusal to allow U.S. military forces to immediately provide rescue at the crash site is well documented. But this and other documented air disasters show the two countries' significant differences in caring for lives. The protection of individual privacy points to the strong individualism in the United States. In contrast, Japan relishes more deeply entrenched cultural expectations than the United States' (Haruta & Hallahan, 2000). Culture surfaces as the central basis for the difference in managing communication and taking action in emergencies. As the world continues to become more and more independent, culture should be the key consideration in handling and undertaking difficult situations like this.

The foregoing data should draw attention to the role of human error in disasters and proposed models of safety. The Human Factors Analysis and Classification System framework connects theory and practice. Thus, it arms investigators of air disasters with a comprehensive, practicable tool in identifying and classifying the human causes to an air accident. The HFAC covers the entire gamut of human error, including the conditions of craft operators and organizational failure. It and other similar methods are helpful tools in discovering and measuring human error and remedying it. In the hands of safety professionals who investigate human error right in the disaster field, it can help them trace or detect disaster loopholes. More importantly, HFAC can evaluate the

That way, research investments and safety programs can be re-adjusted or reinforced to respond to safety and prevention requirements. #
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