Implementing Mitigations
One message that came through loud and clear during the Foundation’s 71st annual International Air Safety Summit (IASS) in Seattle was that the aviation community needs to do a better…
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Work Plan
In this issue of AeroSafety World, we dedicated two articles (“Getting Out” and “Marching Orders”) to provisions contained in the FAA Reauthorization Act of 2018, a piece of legislation recently…
Importance of Data
Military aviation typically is not a focus area for Flight Safety Foundation or AeroSafety World. While there are some military variants of civilian aircraft operating with armed forces around the…
Passenger Participation
The highest levels of safety are achieved when stakeholders from across the spectrum of aviation disciplines work together to identify and mitigate risk. Pilots, mechanics, flight attendants, dispatchers, schedulers, air…
Safety Management
In a recent speech, Olumuyiwa Bernard Aliu, president of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) Council, said, “Traditional safety oversight has been focused mainly on assessing compliance using straightforward checklists,…
Regulatory Oversight
In its latest annual safety report, the International Air Transport Association (IATA) points out that in the five-year period from 2013 through 2017, there were 340 accidents in global commercial…
Ready for Change?
In an industry driven by technology, change is a natural part of our condition. What we do for a living and the environment in which we do it changes in…
Taking a Position
On March 1, Flight Safety Foundation released a position paper on pilot training and competency. In the paper, the Foundation says that a pragmatic, data-driven approach to pilot training is…
Unmanned Aircraft Systems, Editorial Page
Drone Regulation
The transformation must be managed for safety.
Planes, Trains and …
As we were putting the finishing touches on this issue of AeroSafety World, Amtrak announced that it has named Ken Hylander, former chairman of the Flight Safety Foundation Board of…