Classification rule discovery for the aviation incidents resulted in fatality

Data mining methods have been successfully applied to different fields. Aviation industry is one of them. There is a large amount of knowledge and data accumulation in aviation industry. These data could be stored in the form of pilot reports, maintenance reports, incident reports or delay reports. This paper explains the data mining application on the incident reports of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Accident/Incident Data System database, contains incident data records for all categories of civil aviation between the years of 2000 and 2006. In this study, we applied data mining methods on the incident reports. Moreover rough sets concept is used to reduce the attributes of data set. The purpose of this application is to find out the effective attributes in order to reduce the number of the fatality in the incidents. The categorization tools and decision trees are used to find the relations and rules about the incidents resulted in fatality. For this purpose data-mining analysis is conducted. As a result some rules about the fatality are obtained and also the parameters that affect the fatality in the incident have determined. The rules found are tested in terms of their accuracy and reliability, and these results are seen to be meaningful.

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