The aviation community must overhaul its traditional methods of learning about safety issues to examine not only accidents, incidents and other problems in flight but also situations in which everything went right, Flight Safety Foundation says.
In its recent report, “Learning From All Operations, Expanding the Field of Vision to Improve Aviation Safety,” said the industry should implement a “fundamental shift” in its approach to learning about safety.
“In an increasingly interconnected and complex aviation system, it is imperative to learn not only from things that rarely go wrong but also from things that go right,” the Foundation said. “Data collection needs to expand from a focus on hazardous events to analysis of routine operational data. While it will continue to be essential to identify hazards and manage risks, organisations should also…
