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Clamp Down

by Frank Jackman | September 7, 2016

Risk mitigation is necessarily a cooperative activity. It takes stakeholders from across the aviation industry doing their parts individually and in coordination with others to create the effective layers of mitigations that keep crews and passengers safe flight after flight, year after year. Organizations outside of aviation have an important role to play, too, and sometimes that role is to enforce standards and regulations that already are on the books.


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