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Partners and Programs:

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AeroSafety World

AeroSafety World December 2011–January 2012

Safety Oversight

Not Quite Clear

NTSB concern about confusion surrounding oversight of public aircraft operations prompts guidance and standardization.

by Wayne Rosenkrans

Cover Story

Lift Deficit

Misconfigured MD-82 stalled on takeoff.

by Mark Lacagnina

Strategic Issues

Financial SMS

Excel worksheets help airline safety officers to predict return-on-investment while proposing risk mitigations.

by Wayne Rosenkrans

Strategic Issues

Language Gap

Most accident investigators lack the tools and training to analyze language-related factors in aviation accidents.

by Elizabeth Mathews

Seminars IASS

No Longer Best

Proposals call for reworking familiar systems that fall short in mitigating aviation risks.

by Wayne Rosenkrans

First Person

A Black Swan Event

Saving a crippled A380.

by J.A. Donoghue

Helicopter Safety

Downward Trends

Data show a decline in U.S. helicopter accidents in 2001–2010, with an accident rate of 5.7 per 100,000 flight hours.

by Clarence E. Rash

Helicopter Safety

Disorientation After Dark

The flight path of the Bell 206L‑1 was characteristic of a pilot’s spatial disorientation and loss of control, the NTSB says.

by Linda Werfelman

Safety Review

Monitoring Safety

ICAO annual report measures progress in bolstering aviation safety.

by Linda Werfelman

InSight

Curbing a Killer

It’s time to eliminate an age-old cause of fatal accidents: spatial disorientation.

by Randy Gibb, William Ercoline and Lauren Scharff

President's Message

Great Expectations

I spent a couple days in a seminar in Dubai discussing the future of training in our industry — a session dominated, like most recent meetings, by discussions of “the…

by William R. Voss

Editorial Page

Essential Skills

Training is a topic for endless discussion in the aviation community, and for good reason. Accidents often point out gaps in training curriculums that allow hazards to grow with fatal…

by J.A. Donoghue

Safety Briefs

Safety News | December 2011-January 2012

New CAST Charter The U.S. Commercial Aviation Safety Team (CAST) has a new charter and leadership with two “aggressive goals,” says Ken Hylander, one of the new industry co-chairmen and…

by Linda Werfelman

DataLink

Thai Score

Thai Airways flight operations safety analysis finds a reluctance to conduct go-arounds.

by Rick Darby

InfoScan

Measures of Countermeasures

Evaluation of a flight attendant fatigue-fighting program shows promise.

by Rick Darby

Runway Safety (Conflicts), On Record

Head-Down at a Hot Spot

Misunderstood taxi information and distraction led to a runway incursion.

by Mark Lacagnina