The Safety Space and Practical Drift
In everyday operations, aviation organizations operate in what is known as the “safety space.” The safety space is a continuum between baseline performance on the left of the continuum and…
Fitness for Duty, Sabotage/Intentional Acts, Aviation Medicine, Cover Story
Intentional Acts
Germanwings crash investigators urge clear guidelines for weighing medical privacy against the threat to public safety.
Runway Safety (approach and landing), Airport Ops
Trend Spotting
Airports Council International will dive into five years of data to share insights from peer reviews of 50 airports.
Controlled Flight Into Terrain (CFIT), Strategic Issues
Tipping Points
The convergence of familiar factors in a 2012 CFIT accident underscores why ever-present vulnerabilities must be mitigated.
Loss of Control–In Flight (LOC-I), Aviation Research, Flight Training, Winter/Challenging Ops
Simulating Encounters With ICE
Training can help pilots prepare for hazardous aircraft icing.
A Place on the List
European authorities see the EU’s Air Safety List as crucial in improving aviation safety.
Safety Standards, Smoke Fire Fumes
Checking the Checklists
Common-sense recognition of everyday threats and self-auditing are first steps to making effective changes.
President's Message, Unmanned Aircraft
Safely Tapping the Potential of UAS
Not a day goes by when there isn’t some new development — positive or negative — about unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) and their growing presence in national airspace systems. As…
Editorial Page, GSIP Blogs and Opinions
Personal Relationships
Since mid-March, Flight Safety Foundation staff and contractors, led by Vice President, Technical, Mark Millam and Vice President, Global Programs, Greg Marshall have traveled tens of thousands of miles conducting…
Aviation Safety Events | May 2016
MAY 5–6 — Business Aviation Safety Summit 2016 (BASS 2016). Flight Safety Foundation. Austin, Texas, U.S. Namratha Apparao, <apparao@flightsafety.org>, +1 703.739.6700, ext. 101. MAY 9–12 — RAA 41st Annual Convention. Regional…
Safety News | May 2016
No Sudden Moves Pilots of some Boeing 787s are being cautioned against making abrupt flight control inputs in response to “an unrealistic sudden drop in displayed airspeed.” The U.S. Federal…
Trending Downward
For the second year in a row, the fatal accident rate, the number of fatal accidents and the number of fatalities all declined in U.S. general aviation (GA) in fiscal…
Accident Investigation, On Record
Unsafe to Fly
The captain decided to reject the takeoff after the A320 lifted off the runway.