In the early days of aviation, Flight Safety Foundation was neutral ground for the industry. We could bring together competitors – airlines or manufacturers – and address aviation safety issues. Some of our finest work came about due to these collaborations.
That tradition continues to this day.
As you have read in AeroSafety World, our Global Safety Information Project continues to advance. We’ll be releasing some of our preliminary conclusions soon, but something occurred to me as I was thinking about who is attending our focus group sessions. In each, we have had some combination of airlines, regulators, airports, air navigation service providers and others. The conversations have been candid and eye-opening.
You may have seen a recent article in the Wall Street Journal, “U.S. Airline Accident Rate Remained Near Record Low Last Year.” We’ve reached levels of safety that we only dreamed about 20 years ago. But that doesn’t mean we declare vict…
