New risks to aviation safety may emerge from the industry’s growing reliance on complex technologies and systems, as well as from encounters with increasingly severe weather events associated with climate change, according to a U.S. scientific advisory group.1
A report issued earlier this week by the Transportation Research Board of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine said that a research committee had developed a “tentative list of potential emerging hazards” based on briefings from the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), aviation organizations and other experts from the global aviation community.
“The focus is on identifying systemic stressors on aviation safety potentially arising from increasing pressure on current safety controls or by undermining the assumptions on which they are based. These include safety management in increasingly complex systems, new entrants in aviation, new business models and the intr…
