Aviation safety has found great advantages to collecting and analyzing data. Airplanes, their engines, avionics and other systems constitute a data rich environment. Information technology can capture all of these units of performance, but for…
Voluntary disclosure systems have been employed by the FAA since 1976 with creation of the Aviation Safety Reporting System (ASRS) to report incidents or safety concerns that could lead to safety errors. Reports sent to…
Drug use by anyone operating equipment capable of inflicting substantial property damage and personal injury is absolutely unacceptable. There is good reason for the government to know to what extent aircraft pilots and their maintenance…
Aviation accidents, like the one reported below↓ in Lake Placid’s local newspaper, usually result in fairly sensational journalism. AOPA Foundation’s President did an admirable job of controlling the tone to explain how GA flying a…
The above ↑picture of the Ben Gurion Airport terminal at Tel Aviv shows little activity There is a lot of bad information being issued as to the reasons why flights have been cancelled – some…
There are many disturbing aspects of the MH 17 tragedy and the potential for further debate on aspects of this crash—the need for an international organization to investigate such accidents, the propriety of sending NTSB…
It is totally inappropriate to comment on this horrible crash of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 for any technical analysis now would be pure speculation. It is appropriate to convey our deep condolences to the families…
The NTSB makes a convincing case (see below↓ release and its full report) for the Coast Guard and the FAA to increase their involvement with the parasailing industry as depicted ↑above). Administrator Huerta, one would…