FSF in the News
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. ...
August 23, 2011
United puts iPads in cockpits for ‘paperless flight deck’
Macworld
“About 75 to 80 percent of a flight is done using the autopilot, in conjunction with the flight management system,” Kevin Hiatt, executive vice president of the Flight Safety Foundation, told AOL Travel last year. iPads won't completely eliminate paper ...
August 1, 2011
Plane in Guyana Crash Slid off Runway
Wall Street Journal
Still, these earlier crashes prompted industry officials and regulators to rethink safety margins for big jets landing on contaminated runways. For years, international safety groups such as the Flight Safety Foundation of Alexandria, Va., ...
July 31, 2011
Guyana airport being upgraded at time crash
Seattle Post Intelligencer
Bill Voss, president of the US-based Flight Safety Foundation, noted that despite the dramatic crack in the jet after the crash, the incident follows in the ...
July, 30, 2011
WSJ — Air France Crash Report Likely to Alter Pilot Training ...
“It’s not just an Air France issue, but rather an industrywide problem” according to Bill Voss, head of the Flight Safety Foundation of Alexandria, Va., ...
July 28, 2011
Human Factors in Cockpit Displays
Aviation Week
The Flight Safety Foundation published the results of that initiative in 1996 and noted in the report that one key issue centered on the disconnect between pilots and the airplane, often expressed by crew members as “Why did it do that? ...
July 26, 2011
The future of the black box flight recorder explored
Wired.co.uk
“Approach and landing accidents are half the crashes in a given year,” says Bill Voss, president and CEO of the Flight Safety Foundation, "and then you just ...
July 25, 2011
‘You’re Fired’ Doesn't Mean Fired to Four of 10 Air Controllers
Bloomberg
“When you are told you are being removed, you’re at the end of a long road,” said Voss, chief executive officer of the nonprofit Flight Safety Foundation, ...
July 15, 2011
NTSB joins investigation of Boston airport crash
The Associated Press
Contact between airliners on taxiways and runways is rare, said Kevin Hiatt, a pilot and the executive vice president of the Flight Safety Foundation, an independent airline safety advocacy organization. “Two airplanes coming in contact in this manner ...
July 6, 2011
Tower errors run high at MSP
Minneapolis Star Tribune
“I’m trying to think of a reason why Minneapolis would be a more difficult airport,” said Bill Voss, a former FAA official and air traffic controller and ...
June 30, 2011
Pitch and Power: Lessons from Air France Flight 447
Aviation International News
Flight Safety Foundation president and CEO Bill Voss believes “Maybe the solution isn’t that terribly hard because this isn’t just an Airbus issue. ...
June 24, 2011
Information overload and cockpit confusion triggers training call
The Australian
Flight Safety Foundation chief executive Bill Voss told The Australian that “what went right” during a Qantas A380 engine explosion over Singapore last year ...
June 22, 2011
FAA inspections fault Philippine repair station
The Associated Press
Bill Voss, president of the Flight Safety Foundation, an industry-supported group that promotes aviation safety worldwide, said the inspections indicate Lufthansa Technik Philippines has a problem with quality control, but he cautioned against making ...
June 22, 2011
In the Name of Safety, Airlines Can Dance if They Want To
Wall Street Journal
says Kevin Hiatt, vice president of the nonprofit Flight Safety Foundation and a longtime airline pilot. “But it gets the point across.” Airline passengers are a tough audience. Road warriors tune out briefings, while novice fliers can freak out at ...
June 16, 2011
The End of the Black Box: Rescuing Airplane Data From the Wreckage
Wired News
“Approach and landing accidents are half the crashes in a given year,” says Bill Voss, president and CEO of the Flight Safety Foundation, “and then you just ...
June 13, 2011
Mid-flight windshield crack diverts plane
CTV.ca
William Voss, the president and CEO of the Flight Safety Foundation based in Virginia, told CTV News Channel Friday evening that there is an occasional problem with windows on both Airbuses and Boeings cracking. "The important thing to know is that ...
May 28, 2011
Crash Report Shows Confused Cockpit
Wall Street Journal
“Pilots are starting to serve the automation, not the automation serving the pilots,” said Bill Voss, president of the Flight Safety Foundation of Alexandria, Va., an independent advocacy group championing enhanced training. “It’s almost like we have ...
May 25, 2011
CASS attendees share safety solutions
Aviation International News
Flight Safety Foundation executive vp Kevin Hiatt and president Bill Voss presented this year's Business Aviation Meritorious Service Award to Bombardier ...
May 24, 2011
Air France Flight 447: Black Boxes Indicate Pilot Error Caused Accident
ABC News
William Voss, President and CEO of the Flight Safety Foundation, told ABC News that the pilots could have gotten sidetracked trying to deal with the emergency. ABC News has learned the jumbo jet, an Airbus A330 was still flyable, but the pilots ...
May 23, 2011
Air France Flight AF 447 Investigation: Recording Indicates Pilot Wasn’t In ...
Spiegel Online
As William Voss, president of the Virginia-based Flight Safety Foundation, says: “No company wants to have this kind of unexplained crash on its books.” Meanwhile, it will soon be decided whether Pierre-Henri Gourgeon, the CEO of Air France-KLM, ...
May 16, 2011
Head-up guidance moves to smaller aircraft
Aviation International News
A 2009 Flight Safety Foundation study showed that HGS technology could have helped prevent 38 percent of accidents that occurred over a 12-year period. According to Rockwell Collins, “The study also came to the conclusion that a staggering 69 percent ...
May 13, 2011
New Vancouver airport runway rules could cost millions
Vancouver Sun
A 2009 report by the US Flight Safety Foundation found 417 global instances between 1995 and 2008 of commercial transport aircraft running off the end of runways. That's about 30 overruns year, accounting for almost 30 per cent of total aircraft ...
May 9, 2011
Beyond the Blips: Air-Traffic Control’s Postradar Age
TIME
Indeed, as former FAA air-traffic-development director Bill Voss told CNN, the NextGen system is meant to provide another layer of protection, ...
April 29, 2011
The future of air traffic safety
CNN
A lot of people are excited about the implementation of NextGen, and I am one of them. It will be a wonderful change, long overdue, but there are some real concerns.
April 28, 2011
When Does an Airplane Become “Too Old” to Fly?
Argophilia Travel News
According to Bill Voss, CEO of the Flight Safety Foundation, airplanes can actually keep going indefinitely, so long as it is kept well maintained. ...
April 26, 2011
Can technology fix the FAA’s air traffic troubles?
CNN
... F. Kennedy International Airport, said Bill Voss, former FAA air traffic development director and current president of the Flight Safety Foundation. ...
April 25, 2011
Fatigue in US air travel system: It’s not just air traffic controllers
Christian Science Monitor
“They’ve got a couple layers of challenges” at the FAA alone, says William Voss, president of the Flight Safety Foundation, an independent group that draws support from the aviation industry. One is that safety advances often hinge on navigating ...
April 25, 2011
How Alarming are Airport Ramp Accidents?
Seattle Post Intelligencer (blog)
In a recent post on ramp accidents, I cited a Flight Safety Foundation report which gave some pretty alarming numbers. In the May 2007 issue of Aerosafety World, the Flight Safety magazine used numbers from the International Air Transport Association ...
April 25, 2011
Asleep at the controls? What’s going on with air traffic controllers
CNN International
Everyone knows what the common practice has been,” said Bill Voss, president of the nonprofit Flight Safety Foundation in Alexandria, Virginia. ...
April 22, 2011
Furor over air controllers to spill into Congress
Reuters
Bill Voss, a former FAA controller and now an aviation safety advocate, said the air traffic lapses have undercut the union’s position on issues important ...
April 21, 2011
Bill Voss | PRI’s The World
Bill Voss is the President and CEO of the Flight Safety Foundation in San Diego. He talks to anchor Lisa Mullins about how the US air traffic control system ...
April 20, 2011
Recent air controller incidents no sign of crisis, experts say
USA Today
“The rhetoric is completely out of proportion to the risk,” says Bill Voss, a former controller who now heads the non-profit Flight Safety Foundation. "The system isn’t collapsing. It is working at an unprecedented level of safety, overall. ...
April 20, 2011
Laser Hits JetBlue Flight Trying To Land In SD
KGTV San Diego
Hiatt, who is now executive vice president of the Flight Safety Foundation, said he was on approach to Salt Lake City one evening around dusk when his co-pilot was hit by a green laser beam. Hiatt was able to safely land the plane. ...
April 18, 2011
Controller fatigue a threat to air safety
Miami Sun-Sentinel
“If they don’t rest, they can reach a level of impairment that would exceed being legally drunk,” said Bill Voss, president of the Flight Safety Foundation
April 17, 2011
FAA gives tired controllers an extra hour to rest
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
“Given the body of scientific evidence, that decision clearly demonstrates that politics remain more important than public safety,” said Bill Voss, president of the Flight Safety Foundation of Alexandria, Va.
April 13, 2011
JFK runway collision: Who’s to blame?
CBS News
Working ground control at a busy airport like JFK is one of the most demanding jobs in the nation’s air traffic control system, Bill Voss, president of the Flight Safety Foundation, an advocacy group, told the Associated Press. “It is extremely complex ...
April 12, 2011
JFK runway collision spotlights dangers on the ground
USA Today
“This was a significant collision that clearly has safety implications,” Bill Voss, president of the non-profit Flight Safety Foundation, says. The NTSB is investigating the collision, spokesman Keith Holloway says. The potential for accidents on the ...
April 9, 2011
After tear in a 737, asking what’s old for a plane
The Associated Press
Theoretically, a jet could continue flying indefinitely as long as an airline maintained it, says Bill Voss, president and CEO of the Flight Safety Foundation. The costs would eventually be prohibitive, though. Deciding when to mothball an airplane is ...
April 8, 2011
FAA prepares emergency safety order for some B737s
Sify
But Bill Voss, president of the Flight Safety Foundation in Alexandria, Va., said the safety order is an acknowledgement that previous inspection procedures were inadequate. “There is no question this was a very serious safety event,” Voss said. ...
April 8, 2011
In airline ads, safety is off-limits
Philadelphia Inquirer
“It isn’t a good thing to talk about safety because it raises the issue to a level that we would prefer it not to be, either as customers and certainly as airlines.” William R. Voss, president and chief executive officer of the Flight Safety Foundation ...
March 9, 2011
U.S., EU Near Air-Safety Pact
Wall Street Journal
“There’s no better way to create a safe system than to have two competent regulators looking at the same operator and sharing data,” said Bill Voss, president of the Flight Safety Foundation, a nonprofit group based in Alexandria, Va. ...
March 4, 2011
Europe Aviation Industry to Test Volcanic-Ash Response System
Wall Street Journal
“We have a real big interest in how it’s going to help us” cope with future eruptions, said Kevin Hiatt, executive vice president of the Flight Safety Foundation, which sponsored the European safety seminar. Overall, airlines lost an estimated $1.8 ...
March 3, 2011
Aviation Experts See Europe Safety Concerns
Wall Street Journal
Speakers and attendees at the Flight Safety Foundation's seminar discussed sharp spending cuts, which have slashed personnel by 30% or more at some national regulatory authorities over the past few years. And the trend, these officials said, ...
February 16, 2011
NOVA | The Risks of Automated Flight
BILL VOSS: Over the decades, we've done an awful lot about automating the aircraft and giving pilots tools to control where the airplane goes. ...
February 11, 2011
Air traffic control error numbers double; FAA administrator ...
Newser
Bill Voss, president of the Flight Safety Foundation in Alexandria, Va., and a former controller, said there is reason to be concerned, but “how much to be ...
February 7, 2011
Review of NASA reports shows frequent close calls over Washington
The Spokesman Review
Even people who never fly in small planes need to be wary of safety problems with them, notes Bill Voss, president and CEO of the Flight Safety Foundation, ...
January 24, 2011
Airline lawsuit threatens delays for FAA
The Hill
Bill Voss, president of the Flight Safety Foundation, said increased reporting could very well account for the record number of near-misses but stressed the ...
January 14, 2011
GE, Boeing may save airlines $450M
Danbury News Times
“I expect they will be using these vendors to do more,” William Voss, chief executive officer of the nonprofit Flight Safety Foundation in Alexandria, Va., ...
January 12, 2011
‘Star Wars’ tech to keep pilots airborne
BBC News
Bill Voss, president and chief executive officer of the Flight Safety Foundation said he is intrigued by what SEVS promises it can do. ...
January 7, 2011
FAA’s Lockheed Equipment Upgrade to Cost $330 Million More as ...
Bloomberg
“It’s going to be difficult to manage this delay without impacting NextGen schedules,” Bill Voss, president of the nonprofit Flight Safety Foundation, ...
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