United Airlines recently was given credit in a Wall Street Journal article for performing safety analysis that is saving the airline millions. The article speaks about how the idea for this analysis was derived from an open-source violent crimes study under way in academia. In the aviation industry, we have seen how an analysis of flight paths is more enlightening when the path(s) are illustrated with 3D tools across the terrain. Some of the issues at certain airports are better understood when visualizing the full approach and departure paths with obstacles and other nearby traffic flows. These illustrations provide a powerful understanding of safety and risk acquired by using tools that are being applied across many different industries, often by industry novices who are applying what was learned somewhere else.
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