FSF in the News
August 24, 2010
As If Mexico Doesn’t Have Enough to Worry About...
New York Observer
... downgraded because of “some problems with its work force of inspectors,” according to William R. Voss, head of the nonprofit Flight Safety Foundation. ...
August 23, 2010
A Global Patchwork of Air Safety Rules
New York Times
“It’s definitely worrisome,” said William R. Voss, president and chief executive of the nonprofit Flight Safety Foundation, although he emphasized that the ...
August 20, 2010
Voss Says New Plane Designs Have Improved Crash Survival: Video
20 (Bloomberg) -- William Voss, chief executive officer of the non-profit Flight Safety Foundation, talks about the improvements in plane cabin design that ...
August 17, 2010
Navy officers walk near wreckage of Colombian passenger plane that crashed in ...
Herald.ie
... “you don't exclude any possibility, but investigators will be looking closely at the weather,” said William Voss, CEO of the Flight Safety Foundation. ...
July 21, 2010
Systems Aim to Provide Real-Time Tracking of ‘Black Box’ Flight Data
New York Times
“People absolutely smell money here,” said William R. Voss, president of the Flight ... he noted, “the real cost is not the system but the phone bill. ...
July 2, 2010
European-US Safety Agreement Nears
Aviation Week
But Bill Voss, president/CEO of the Flight Safety Foundation, points out that the Colgan incident was not an anomaly, noting indications of poor crew ...
June 24, 2010
Crash cause may not be known
The Australian
But the Flight Safety Foundation, an independent international body involved in the research, audit and education of aviation safety, said the Congo would ...
June 23, 2010
CAA opposed to wetland upgrade
Taipei Times
Meanwhile, officials from the Flight Safety Foundation, Taiwan, said the foundation had helped the CAA and the military solve bird aircraft strike hazards ...
June 23, 2010
Collision Alerts on U.S. Flights Top 200 in Three Months, New ...
Bloomberg
Not all alerts signal a real risk of a collision because the devices can't read the intent of pilots, said Bill Voss, president of the non-profit Flight ...
June 22, 2010
Corrections & Amplifications
Wall Street Journal
Bill Voss of the Flight Safety Foundation said that he believes the computers on board a Libyan airliner that crashed in May were functioning properly but ...
June 21, 2010
EU banned charter flight operator
Sydney Morning Herald
Flight Safety Foundation, a global independent body for aviation safety, listed three safety incidents for the Brazzaville, Congo-based company, ...
June 17, 2010
Three injured as US plane slides off Ottawa tarmac
Ottawa Citizen
Bill Voss, president of the Flight Safety Foundation, based in Virginia, said such “runway excursions” don’t always end well. “Of the serious air transport ...
May 28, 2010
Overrun Probed
Aviation Week
According to Flight Safety Foundation President William Voss, the Indian government has been on the “right track” and taken proactive steps to correct ...
May 19, 2010
Dutch boy sole known survivor in Libyan jet crash
Las Vegas Sun
based Flight Safety Foundation said sometimes children survive because of their small size. As far as children are concerned, the only thing we can ...
May 14, 2010
Has the Regional Bubble Burst?
ATWOnline
“ATA is just wrong,” Flight Safety Foundation President and CEO William Voss tells ATW.“The notion that FAA can enforce safety alone is naive. ...
May 10, 2010
Fatigue Risk Management
IATA
ICAO began working with the Flight Safety Foundation, specifically looking at ultra-long-haul operations. In 2006, an ICAO FRM subgroup continued to work on ...
May 4, 2010
Can airlines be ranked for safety?
CNN
“There is no way to answer that question,” said Emily McGee, director of communications for the nonprofit international group headquartered in Alexandria, Virginia.
April 26, 2010
Air safety system strained
TheNewsTribune.com
“We’ve maintained a fairly impressive safety record,” said William Voss, ... Congress is on the verge of approving a far-reaching aviation bill. ...
April 20, 2010
Airports Reopen, Safety Debate Lingers
Wall Street Journal
“What’s missing is some sort of standard, based on science, that gives an indication of a safe level of volcanic ash,” said Bill Voss, president of the ...
April 20, 2010
IATA calls for better response
Montreal Gazette
Emily McGee of Washington’s Flight Safety, a non-profit foundation on aviation safety, said that it has yet to be determined if there actually is a safe ...
April 20, 2010
Volcanic ash: was air travel ban necessary?
Channel 4 News
Its chief executive Bill Voss thinks the decision to close airspace was justified initially. “I firmly believe that if action hadn't been taken very ...
April 19, 2010
Aircraft enginemakers, regulators study ash impact
Reuters
“We don't know what the acceptable (ash) concentration level is,” said Bill Voss of the Virginia-based Flight Safety Foundation. “There is no safe or unsafe ...
April 17, 2010
Volcano cancels Obama’s trip to Poland
ABC7Chicago.com
... very conservative and make sure the air is really clear before we start launching flights into it,” Flight Safety Foundation President Bill Voss said.
April, 15, 2010
Iceland’s volcanic ash halts flights across Europe
Forbes
“There hasn't been a bigger one,” said William Voss, president of the US-based Flight Safety Foundation, who praised aviation authorities and Eurocontrol, ...
April 12, 2010
Polish Air Crash Puts Spotlight on Pilots’ Duties
New York Times
... such as a desire get home or a desire to get someplace on time,” said Bill Voss, president of the Flight Safety Foundation in Alexandria, Va. ...
April 12, 2010
Clues Sought in Crash of Polish Plane
Wall Street Journal
According to previous studies by the Flight Safety Foundation and other industry groups, nonprecision approaches are at least five times more likely to ...
April 10, 2010
Airline safety: a system under pressure
Sun-Sentinel
“We've maintained a fairly impressive safety record,” said William Voss, CEO of the Flight Safety Foundation, an independent, nonprofit organization that ...
April, 5, 2010
FAA error-reporting program reveals hazards, yields fixes
USA Today
“It’s a systematic attack on the human errors that are inevitable in a system, but were always shrugged off,” said Bill Voss, president of the Flight Safety ...
April 2, 2010
Health Buzz: Pilots’ Antidepressants Cleared for Takeoff
U.S. News & World Report
Bill Voss, president of the non-profit Flight Safety Foundation, tells Bloomberg the agency’s policy change was a result of extensive study on depression ...
March 31, 2010
Almost all regional pilots are seriously fatigued
Flightglobal
US company Alertness and Performance Management (APM) presented the findings at the recent Flight Safety Foundation European Aviation Safety Seminar in ...
March 30, 2010
Chinese-Language AeroSafety World
Aviation Today
FSF President and CEO Bill Voss said “China is an enormous aviation market and its growth rate is impressive. What’s also impressive is the work that the ...
March 29, 2010
EU Makes Push for Real-Time Flight Data
Wall Street Journal
... already transmitted by many commercial airliners could greatly aid accident investigators,” said Bill Voss, president of the Flight Safety Foundation. ...
March 26, 2010
Reaction to systems failure scrutinised
The Australian
Flight Safety Foundation global chief executive Bill Voss said there was increasing concern about the interface between pilots and aircraft automation, ...
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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