The Transportation Safety Board of Canada (TSB) has issued the newest version of its safety Watchlist — including five problem areas involving aviation — and pledged “a more proactive approach” to improving safety across Canada’s transportation network.
The Watchlist, made public on Oct. 31, singles out 10 areas in need of improvement. Three areas address problems that specifically affect the aviation community: unstable approaches, risk of collisions on runways and runway overruns. Two other areas are problems throughout the transportation industry: safety management and oversight, and slow progress addressing TSB recommendations.
In addressing the aviation-specific recommendations, TSB cited Flight Safety Foundation research in noting that 3.5 to 4 percent of approaches are unstable and that, of these, only 3 percent result in go-arounds, “despite airlines’ stable-approa…
