Unmanned Aircraft Systems, Cover Story, Unmanned Aircraft
Fire Traffic Control
Unauthorized UAS flights near U.S. wildfires — about 33 in 18 months — pose untenable risks for air and ground responders.
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Loss of Control–In Flight (LOC-I), Flight Training
Brave New World
FAA simulator requirements enable acceptably realistic recoveries from full stalls and upsets in commercial jets.
Rescuing Search and Rescue
Recent missteps in accident response have fueled calls for global reorganization of SAR.
Accident Investigation, Causal Factors, Safety Oversight
Lack of Restraint
The 747 freighter was doomed when a massive military vehicle broke free in the cargo hold.
Unmanned Aircraft Systems, Basic Aviation Risk Standard, Foundation Focus
BARS and RPAS
Earlier this year, Flight Safety Foundation’s Basic Aviation Risk Standard (BARS) Program Office in Melbourne, Australia, announced that the state government of Victoria’s Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning…
Safety Management Harmonization
Safety management systems (SMS) can be misunderstood, and the more civil aviation authorities can harmonize SMS requirements, the better for global aviation safety and industry organizations — in particular, for…
Fitness for Duty, President's Message
Shared Responsibility
Aviation safety is both an individual and a shared responsibility. The decisions and actions of individuals can have a profound impact on safety in specific situations, and aviation’s justifiably admired…
Focus on M&E
Airbus forecast in July that $1.8 trillion will be spent on commercial aviation maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) activities over the next 20 years as part of a projected $3…
Safety News | July–August 2016
Ice-Protection Alerting The U.S. National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), citing a fatal 2014 crash that it attributed largely to structural icing, is calling for development of a system to automatically…
EASA Outlines Key Safety Risks
European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) member state (MS) operators of commercial air transport (CAT) airplanes of more than 5,700 kg (12,566 lb) maximum takeoff mass suffered one fatal accident in…
Accident Investigation, On Record
‘Flight Level Two Hundred’
Confusing clearance placed a business jet on a collision course with mountains.