Suggested Citation:
Rapetti, Ryan, Nesrin Sarigul-Klijn, Albert Jordan, Israel Lopez, Marti M. Sarigul-Klijn (2008) A Novel Probabilistic Approach in Determination of Landing Site for Distressed Aircraft . Proceedings of AIAA Guidance, Navigation and Control Conference and Exhibit

A flight path planning strategy based on a novel probabilistic approach is proposed and developed. The main goal is to increase overall survivability of an in-flight distressed aircraft by biasing the flight path closer to possible abort airports so that in the event of an abort, the aircraft has less distance to fly to reach the abort field. Probabilistic methods are used to derive an optimal biased path and to evaluate the efficacy of such a path in improving overall aircraft survivability. Simulation results show that this novel probabilistic approach to flight path planning increases survivability of an in-flight distressed aircraft.