In November 2014, in conjunction with Flight Safety Foundation’s 67th annual International Air Safety Summit, we held the second annual FSF Benefit Dinner. The purpose of this event is to raise money for Foundation operations. With our third annual FSF Benefit Dinner coming up on July 30 in Washington, this is a good time to highlight a few of the Foundation’s activities that were at least partially funded with the money raised last year.
In February, I traveled to Montreal for the International Civil Aviation Organization’s High Level Safety Conference and participated in an important panel discussion on the protection of safety data. The Foundation has long been a proponent of increasing the level of protection for safety data. It is our strong belief that the collection and analysis of data from normal operations is the key to improving the already impressive safety record of the aviation industry. Protecting this data from use as evidence in criminal investigations and civil…
