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Valuable Air Safety Lessons from a JOBY eVTOL accident

Joby Aviation was completing a flight test of its JAS4-2 under Part 91on February 16, 2022, and the EXPERIMENTAL uncrewed eVTOL vehicle suffered a separation of one of its propellors which cascaded into another propellor separating multiple propulsion motor/propeller assemblies and loss of remote pilot

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Jail and Boeing?

Justice and Jail for Boeing vs. NTSB probable cause?

The Department of Justice (DoJ) has announced that it had initiated a CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION “WHETHER THE [Alaska Airlines Boeing 737 Max] PANEL BLOWOUT VIOLATED TERMS OF A 2021 SETTLEMENT that let Boeing avoid prosecution for allegedly misleading regulators who certified the 737 Max.” The charge

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XB-1 with TC

Scholl interview: a blueprint for innovative TC applicants

Advanced civil drones (UASs), green aircraft, air taxis, other eVTOL applications and a whole host of aerospace innovations are being created by this industry. Contemporaneously, a number of traditional type and production certificates are showing some cracks in their performance. On March 22,2024 BOOM Supersonic

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UA Safety Culture

Does United need to do an external audit?

Below are three articles which report the incidents and regulatory consequences of incidents which United recently experienced. The first explains what restrictions the FAA has imposed in response. Number two story recites the opinions of the UA CEO and three experts. The last includes the

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WHAT IS SAFETY CULTURE

What REALLY is SAFETY CULTURE?

FLIGHT SAFETY FOUNDATION’S DR. SHAHIDI reviewed the safety data for Year 2023, commends the industry for a year without fatalities in international commercial aviation; HOWEVER, he warns: . “COMPLACENCY is a stealthy threat that can erode safety and quality unless it is actively COUNTERED WITH

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A Blip is not a Blip.

Secretary Buttigieg: A BLIP is not a BLIP.

Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, at a Press conference introducing his FY 2025 FAA budget, repeated the mantra used by air traffic privatizations proponents (largely Republican), that “A BLIP IS A BLIP” or in his terms that based on solely on raw operations numbers that business

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all modes of accidents plus TV coverage

Aviation Safety Culture works, and Media Bias distorts the record;

so says academic research paper!!! In reviewing a tremendous analysis of SAFETY CULTURES across all transportation modes, these astute observations made by Roslyn Layton ,a Senior Fellow at George Mason University’s Antonin Scalia Law School: “…AIR TRAVEL DEATHS have PLUMMETED BY TWO-THIRDS, even though total miles

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2023 Aviation's Safest Year

IATA’s 2023 Safety Report- good news

Meta Data and powerful analytics are contributing to enhanced aviation safety. The numbers become more powerful as the volume and frequency of the information increases. Seemingly insignificant incidents occurring at different airlines demand attention when the events and their specifics are aggregated. International Air Transport

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Published daily since 2009, the JDA Journal has earned a reputation as a source for concise, unbiased, no nonsense, non-jargon, in depth analysis and incisive commentary on the latest news and important current issues of interest to the aviation community. No other daily aviation journal is as thought provoking, insightful, interesting and sometimes even fun to read at no cost, without advertisements and without overt or subtle marketing messages.

JDA Journal is a forum for JDA Aviation staff and Associates to post their insights on aviation Safety.

Our head writer, Sandy Murdock, was former FAA Chief Counsel and FAA Deputy Administrator. Also NBAA’s former Sr. VP Administration and General Counsel.

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UA Safety Culture

Does United need to do an external audit?

Below are three articles which report the incidents and regulatory consequences of incidents which United recently experienced. The first explains what restrictions the FAA has imposed in response. Number two story recites the opinions of

Read More »
WHAT IS SAFETY CULTURE

What REALLY is SAFETY CULTURE?

FLIGHT SAFETY FOUNDATION’S DR. SHAHIDI reviewed the safety data for Year 2023, commends the industry for a year without fatalities in international commercial aviation; HOWEVER, he warns: . “COMPLACENCY is a stealthy threat that can

Read More »
A Blip is not a Blip.

Secretary Buttigieg: A BLIP is not a BLIP.

Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, at a Press conference introducing his FY 2025 FAA budget, repeated the mantra used by air traffic privatizations proponents (largely Republican), that “A BLIP IS A BLIP” or in his terms

Read More »
2023 Aviation's Safest Year

IATA’s 2023 Safety Report- good news

Meta Data and powerful analytics are contributing to enhanced aviation safety. The numbers become more powerful as the volume and frequency of the information increases. Seemingly insignificant incidents occurring at different airlines demand attention when

Read More »

2 POSTS A DAY — OVER 2,500 ARTICLES

JDA Solutions Journal:
Daily Aviation Insight by FAA Experts

Published daily since 2009, the JDA Journal has earned a reputation as a source for concise, unbiased, no nonsense, non-jargon, in depth analysis and incisive commentary on the latest news and important current issues of interest to the aviation community. No other daily aviation journal is as thought provoking, insightful, interesting and sometimes even fun to read at no cost, without advertisements and without overt or subtle marketing messages.

JDA Journal is a forum for JDA Aviation staff and Associates to post their insights on aviation Safety.

Our head writer, Sandy Murdock, was former FAA Chief Counsel and FAA Deputy Administrator. Also NBAA’s former Sr. VP Administration and General Counsel.

Sandy Murdock 2023

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