Launching the agency’s first code-sharing safety symposium, moderator Deborah Hersman, chairman of the U.S. National Safety Board (NTSB), reminded panelists, “The overall focus is not to revisit previous accidents and incidents.” Given controversies surrounding the nation’s run of regional airline accidents since 2000, some could not resist.
They ultimately left unsettled, however, the question of when commercial agreements among airlines should be identified as a latent cause.
Titled “Airline Code-Sharing Arrangements and Their Role in Aviation Safety,” the event on Oct. 26–27, 2010, in Washington was designed “to elicit information on the structures, practices and oversight of domestic and international code-sharing arrangements; gain insight into [the exchange of] best practices information between airlines and their [code-share] partners; and explore the role that a major airline would have in the family disaster assistance response for an accident involving a [co…
