Risk assessment framework

A system for evaluating aircraft flight risk comprising:

• a first risk factor evaluation module configured to evaluate a first flight risk factor for scheduled flights, wherein the first flight risk factor is predictive of a safety of the scheduled flights and represents a pre-flight attribute of the scheduled flights;
• a second risk factor evaluation module configured to evaluate a second flight risk factor for the scheduled flights, wherein the second flight risk factor is predictive of the safety of the scheduled flights;
• and
• a flight risk assessment module communicatively coupled to the first risk factor evaluation module and the second risk factor evaluation module, the risk assessment module configured to:
• apply a first weighting to the first flight risk factor to generate a first weighted flight risk factor, and a second weighting to the second flight risk factor to generate a second weighted flight risk factor, wherein the first weighting and the second weighting represent a respective contribution of the first flight risk factor and the second flight risk factor to a flight risk level of the scheduled flight,
• assess the flight risk level for the scheduled flights based on the first weighted flight risk factor and the second weighted flight risk factor, and
• provide data indicating the assessed flight risk levels for the scheduled flights for display to a user.

A non-transitory computer-readable medium encoded with a computer program comprising instructions that, when executed, operate to cause one or more processors to perform operations comprising:

• receiving, by the one or more processors, data related to a first flight risk factor and data related to a second flight risk factor for a scheduled flight, wherein the first flight risk factor and the second flight risk factor are each predictive of a safety of the scheduled flight and represent a pre-flight attribute of the scheduled flight;
• applying, by the one or more processors, a first weighting to the first flight risk factor to generate a first weighted flight risk factor, and a second weighting to the second flight risk factor to generate a second weighted flight risk factor, wherein the first weighting and the second weighting represent a respective contribution of the first flight risk factor and the second flight risk factor to a flight risk level of the scheduled flight;
• assessing, by the one or more processors, the flight risk level for the scheduled flight based on the first weighted flight risk factor and the second weighted flight risk factor;
• and
• providing, by the one or more processors and for display to a user, data indicating the assessed flight risk level for the scheduled flight.