Flight Safety Foundation is developing a new project to identify gaps in existing aviation safety efforts and to determine how to best close those gaps, Henry Gourdji, the Foundation’s director, safety strategy and policy, told the 74th annual FSF International Air Safety Summit (IASS) today (Sept. 21).
Gourdji noted that, for years, the most frequent accident categories have been identified as controlled flight into terrain, loss of control, and runway excursions and incursions. The new Global Aviation Safety Assessment Project will seek to determine whether there might be new contributing factors to those categories and other types of accidents, perhaps in the form of distraction and loss of disciplined behaviors; crewmembers’ personal health and well-being also might be factors, he said.
The project also will address how the COVID-19 pandemic may have affected aviation safety, Gourdji said, adding that recovery from the pandemic is likely to be uneven, with the possibility…
