Thirteen Seconds
Premature unlocking of SpaceShipTwo’s reentry system calls into question steps taken to mitigate human errors capable of causing in-flight breakup.
Safety Information Sharing and Protection, Data Sharing
Peripheral Vision
Compelling membership benefits of the FAA ASIAS program attract the first operators from U.S. business aviation.
What Is Trending?
A pilot fails to notice a warning light for two critical aircraft systems and conducts a takeoff. A crew ignores company procedures on a repositioning flight. A maintenance technician fails…
Unmanned Aircraft Systems, Unmanned Aircraft
Learning Curve
New efforts aim to keep small UAS away from airports and manned aircraft.
Trade-Offs
Pilots face constant challenges in managing efficiency and complexity while also reducing risk.
Accident Investigation, Helicopter Safety
Interference
An R44’s proximity to high-intensity broadcast towers resulted in an uncommanded power decrease, NTSB investigators say.
Optimally Safe Practices
Achieving interoperability by harmonization alters aviation risks as the European Union and United States modernize airspace.
History of Firsts
Being a pioneer means that you break new ground, that you are the first organization to do or create something. In our 68-year history, Flight Safety Foundation has been the…
Shades Wide Open
The uncontained engine failure and fire that occurred Sept. 8 on a British Airways Boeing 777 during takeoff from McCarran International Airport in Las Vegas appears to be a good…
Aviation Safety Events | October 2015
OCTOBER 4–6 — 3rd European STAMP Workshop. Aviation Academy of the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences. Amsterdam. <stamp-workshop.eu>. OCTOBER 4–7 — ACI–NA Annual Conference and Exhibition. Airports Council International–North America…
New Website, Focus Groups Mark GSIP Progress
Flight Safety Foundation has launched a new website <www.fsfgsip.org> in support of its Global Safety Information Project (GSIP). The website features details about the ongoing project, answers to frequently asked…
Safety News | October 2015
ICAO Urges Child Restraint Rules | Tracking Trial Completed | and more …
Accident Investigation, On Record
‘I Got It’
The captain took control close to the runway in an attempt to salvage an unstabilized approach.