FSF in the News
March 18, 2010
Air-Safety Gurus Slam EU Crash Probe Plan
Wall Street Journal
“Voluntary cooperation is a recipe for not getting cooperation,” said Kenneth Quinn, general counsel and secretary of the Flight Safety Foundation …
March 17, 2010
Runway safety incidents may be responding to treatment
Flightglobal
By David Learmount In the third year since it launched its runway safety initiative, Flight Safety Foundation runway safety results appear to have improved ...
February 24, 2010
NTSB Recommends Monitoring Pilot Conversations | ABC 7 News
Bill Voss, a flight safety advocate, says there are more important new rules needed to protect fliers. “Actually what they are doing at altitude isn’t much ...
February 24, 2010
NTSB asks to monitor pilots’ talk in cockpits
USA Today
Bill Voss, president of the Flight Safety Foundation, said he would prefer to see other safety initiatives before cockpit recordings are monitored. ...
February 18, 2010
Fewer Airline Crashes in 2009, but More Deaths
ABC News
Air France Flight 447 disappeared over the Atlantic Ocean en route from Brazil to France ... director of technical programs at the Flight Safety Foundation, ...
February 14, 2010
Human error is biggest obstacle to 100 percent flight safety
Denver Post
Bill Voss, president of the Alexandria, Va.-based international nonprofit Flight Safety Foundation, said that worldwide, more accidents reflect the ...
February 13, 2010
World Food Programme to host global aviation safety conference
AME Info (press release)
The event will host aviation industry players such as the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO, Canada), Flight Safety Foundation (FSF, USA); ...
February 2, 2010
French Court Probes Concorde Crash
Wall Street Journal
Bill Voss, president of the Flight Safety Foundation, a global nonprofit organization based in Alexandria, Va., says gross negligence or law-breaking merits ...
February 2, 2010
Safety reforms lag a year after NY plane crash
BusinessWeek
“The Buffalo crash was clearly a watershed event in safety,” said Bill Voss, president of the Flight Safety Foundation of Alexandria, Va. ...
January 29, 2010
Gold standards mooted for fly-in, fly-out miners
Sydney Morning Herald
The Flight Safety Foundation, an independent not-for-profit organisation, has developed new safety standards for the resources industry. ...
January 29, 2010
Pilot disorientation accidents have become a phenomenon
Flightglobal
The Flight Safety Foundation has, for years, noted that loss of control was a growing phenomenon, taking over from controlled flight into terrain as the ...
January 28, 2010
New rules for mud-on-floor airlines
The Australian
“I think sometimes we forget about the aircraft with the mud on the floor mats, the working stuff,” federation global chief executive Bill Voss said ...
January 25, 2010
Ethiopian Airlines Boeing Crashes in Storm Off Beirut
BusinessWeek
... crash since November 1996, when 125 people died during the hijacking of a Boeing 767 en route to Nairobi, according to the Flight Safety Foundation. ...
January 22, 2010
Accident Investigators Sign Criminalization Resolution
Aviation Today
... to criminalize aviation accidents, which can have a chilling effect on cooperation with accident investigators,” said FSF President & CEO Bill Voss. ...
January 21, 2010
President Nominates Weener for NTSB
The Journal of Commerce Online
Weener is a fellow at the Flight Safety Foundation in Alexandria, Va. While a member of the foundation, he worked on runway safety, ground accident ...
January 12, 2010
Many Caribbean, Latin America airports lack safety zones
USA Today
“The problem has been there for a long time and it cuts into the margin of safety,” said Bill Voss, president of the non-profit Flight Safety Foundation. ...
January 11, 2010
Global airline accident review of 2009
Flightglobal
Meanwhile, a Flight Safety Foundation analysis of global accident rates for Western-built jet airliners over the past 20 years demonstrates that the average ...
January 10, 2010
Committee leaders to evaluate progress in implementing global aviation safety ...
AME Info
... International Federation of Airlines Pilots Association (IFALPA); Flight Safety Foundation (FSF); Civil Air Navigation Services Organization (CANSO); ...
January 6, 2010
Assessing the Auditors
Aviation Week
Until this year, the Flight Safety Foundation also maintained its own operational standards program for business aviation dubbed Q-Star; however, ...
January 6, 2010
News | The Independent UK - Experts probe missing plane theories
By The Independent
“They are less common now since it’s easier to avoid thunderstorms,” said Bill Voss, president and chief executive of Flight Safety Foundation, in Alexandria, Virginia. Mr. Voss said planes are built to dissipate electricity along the ...
January 5, 2010
Safety Issues Persist as Air Deaths Drop
Wall Street Journal
“It wasn’t a very flattering year for aviation safety because so much could easily have gone so much worse,” said Bill Voss, chief executive of the Flight Safety Foundation, a nonprofit organization in Alexandria, Va.
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