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February 12, 2012

2011 was a safe year in the skies
Ottawa Citizen
... PM OTTAWA — Commercial plane crashes reached an all-time worldwide low last year, according to a report released Friday by the Flight Safety Foundation.

February 10, 2012

Major Air Crashes Traced to Runway Operations
THISDAY Live
“The initiatives were endorsed in late May 2011 by ICAO member states, IATA (International Air Transport Association), and the Flight Safety Foundation ...

January 19, 2012

Air Controller Discipline Probed by US in Near Plane Crash
Bloomberg
A government safety investigation into a near mid-air collision in Mississippi is ... president of the non-profit Flight Safety Foundation in Alexandria, ...

January 11, 2012

NTSB: Planes came within 300 feet of each other
CNN
Kevin Hiatt, a former 737 pilot now with the non-profit Flight Safety Foundation, said it is still unclear what caused the mishap, but credited the ...

December 31, 2011

The past 10 years have been the safest in American aviation history; deaths ...
Chicago Tribune
It had the second-fewest number of fatalities worldwide, according to the Flight Safety Foundation, with 507 people dying in crashes. Seven out of 28 planes in fatal crashes were on airlines already prohibited from flying into European Union because of ...

December 28, 2011

Airlines Count Down to Safest Year on Record
Wall Street Journal
While the year’s records are noteworthy, they don't guarantee future safety — and could even undermine it by breeding complacency, warned Bill Voss, ...

December 23, 2011

Pilot-Rest Rules May Force Adjustments by US Regional Airlines
BusinessWeek
“It’s going to take the airlines a little bit of time to settle in and really optimize their planning algorithms to make it as efficient as they can,” Bill Voss, president of the Alexandria, Virginia-based Flight Safety Foundation said. ...

October 25, 2011

Pilots Flying Troops Work Long Hours as Charter Carriers Fight ...
Bloomberg
... airlines or the military’s own pilots, putting troops at risk, said Bill Voss, president of the Arlington, Virginia-based Flight Safety Foundation. ...

October 14, 2011

Air mishaps soar, government debates why
CNN
Bill Voss, president of the Flight Safety Foundation, said he supports the FAA’s non-punitive reporting system, saying it is bringing to light errors … 

October 6, 2011

Overshooting a runway wrongly perceived as pilot problem: expert
Montreal Gazette
based Flight Safety Foundation told the 2nd annual International Winter Operations conference hosted by the Air Canada Pilots Association that of the 1508 ...

September 14, 2011

Fatigue may have caused fatal crash of UN chief
Huffington Post
But aviation experts now say the flight most likely fell victim to a danger foremost ... occurred,” said William Voss, head of the Flight Safety Foundation. ...

September 6, 2011

Multiple factors likely at play on weekend Ottawa jet mishap, lead ...
Ottawa Citizen
Jim Burin, director of technical programs for the Flight Safety Foundation, agreed, though he said often a contaminated runway — coated in snow, ice, ...

August 30, 2011

AP IMPACT: Automation in the air dulls pilot skill
The Associated Press
The ability of pilots to respond to the unexpected loss or malfunction of automated aircraft systems “is the big issue that we can no longer hide from in aviation,” said Bill Voss, president of the Flight Safety Foundation in Alexandria, Va. ...

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