Patent ID: 8838326

Claim:
A device for processing failures, comprising: circuitry configured to receive data regarding detected and identified failures in a course of a flight of an airplane; store a history of occurrences of failures having a same identification, in a course of a plurality of flights; for each identified failure, determine status, ongoing or intermittent, based on the identified failure and stored history of occurrences of failures having the same identification as the identified failure, in a course of at least one preceding flight of the plurality of flights; determine an impact of each identified failure on availability of the airplane in a predetermined period based on the determined status; associate a hierarchical attribute with each failure detected and identified in the course of the flight, the hierarchical attribute being dependent on the history of occurrences of failures and the determined impact on availability of the airplane in the predetermined period; and cause display of identified failures that are associated with a part of the hierarchical attributes.