FSF in the News
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.
December 26, 2009
After United 93, air travelers react to threats
Houston Chronicle
“Aggressive intervention has become the new societal norm,” said Bill Voss, an expert at the Flight Safety Foundation in Alexandria, Va. ...
December 24, 2009
American Airlines Jet Skids Off Runway
Wall Street Journal
... either from airlines or regulators, said Bill Voss, the foundation's chief executive, in an interview Wednesday. While less complicated than many recent ...
December 16, 2009
On wayward flight, attendant alerted pilots to their error
Trading Markets (press release) - Los Angeles,CA,USA
... the fact that this was extreme negligence on their parts," said Bill Voss, president of the Flight Safety Foundation, a group based near Washington. ...
December 10, 2009
How Safe Are International Airlines?
Wall Street Journal
But they have caused people to step up to safety,” said William Voss, chief executive of the Flight Safety Foundation, an international nonprofit group that ...
December 2, 2009
Critics pan FAA’s runway safety, pilot fatigue efforts
Seattle Post Intelligencer
Prater and William Voss, president and chief executive of the nonprofit Flight Safety Foundation, called for using comprehensive fatigue risk management ...
December 2, 2009
Senate Prods FAA On Duty-Time Rule
Aviation Week
Flight Safety Foundation (FSF) President and CEO William Voss noted that FAA faces “a daunting task” in formulating new rules. “Human fatigue is too complex ...
December 1, 2009
FAA Opposes Controlled Naps for Pilots to Cut Fatigue
Bloomberg - USA
“On occasion a pilot may unexpectedly feel extra fatigued,” Bill Voss, president of the non-profit Flight Safety Foundation in Alexandria, Virginia, ...
December 1, 2009
BCA Vision Award To Stimpson
Aviation Week
Edward W. Stimpson, founder of General Aviation Manufacturers Assn., US ambassador to ICAO and most recently chairman of the Flight Safety Foundation, ...
December 1, 2009
Senate Wants Action on Pilot Fatigue
Wall Street Journal - USA
“It should be used as an exception” and not “as a rule,” said Bill Voss, president of the Flight Safety Foundation, which advocates for safety improvements ...
November 29, 2009
Ed Stimpson A Modest Giant In GA
AVweb
Ed served the Flight Safety Foundation until lung cancer struck down another non-smoker. Tragic and puzzling. He was the healthiest guy I knew. ...
November 27, 2009
Industry Debate Focuses On Flightcrew Training
Aviation Week
However, “it’s a different world now — and we are not training for it,” stresses Flight Safety Foundation President and CEO William R. Voss. ...
November 25, 2009
Edward Stimpson, GA Advocate, Dies
Aviation Week - New York, NY, USA
... and finally chairman of the Flight Safety Foundation (FSF), died today at his ... furthering aviation safety, and dedicating his life “to brining light, ...
November 24, 2009
UAE to train India and Italy airline staff
GulfNews — Dubai,United Arab Emirates
The institute, certified by the General Civil Aviation Authority of the UAE and several international industry authorities such as Flight Safety Foundation ...
November 20, 2009
Tech Snafu Grounds Nation’s Fliers
Wall Street Journal - USA
... the house and having to redo the plumbing and electrical,” said William Voss, ... Congress is considering a reauthorization bill for the FAA that is ...
November 18, 2009
Airbus Takes On Test-Flight Hazards
Wall Street Journal - USA
Bill Voss, who runs the Flight Safety Foundation, an industry-supported advocacy organization, also sees dangers in pilots struggling to figure out why ...
November 12, 2009
WFP’s Aviation Safety Unit Receives Award For Its Outstanding Achievements
World Food Programme
… recognized by the Flight Safety Foundation (FSF) for their outstanding efforts and awarded the FSF’s President’s Citation.
November 9, 2009
Pilot Safety Symposium and Job Fair Set by FltOps, Flight Safety ...
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November 1, 2009
At 35000 feet, pilots' main job is fighting fatigue
Minneapolis Star Tribune
asked Bill Voss, president of the Flight Safety Foundation, a group based near Washington that focuses on airline safety issues. Pilots and aviation experts ...
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