Willingness to question established ways to prevent aircraft accidents — and to update or reinvent solutions if their results fall short — linked a number of presentations during Flight Safety Foundation’s International Air Safety Summit. A team of European safety analysts, for example, challenged sole use of any investigative method limited to listing the contributing factors involved in runway incursions and in-flight loss of separation, subject matter experts said in November in Miami Beach, Florida, U.S.
Eurocontrol Priorities
European air traffic managers set out with Eurocontrol to identify their five highest safety priorities for 2015. Given a two-month assignment to lead the development and publication, and to justify the choices, Tzvetomir Blajev considered compiling contributing factors but chose instead to strike out in a new direction. Blajev is operational safety coordinator for Eurocontrol, development leader for SKYbrary, chairman of the FSF European Advis…
