Unstable approaches that continue to landing have been dropped from the Transportation Safety Board (TSB) of Canada’s Watchlist of top transportation safety issues, TSB said today in releasing its Watchlist 2018.
TSB said unstable approaches that continue to landing at Canadian airports was one of three issues removed from the list because of “actions taken by stakeholders and/or progress achieved in reducing the underlying safety deficiencies.” The other two issues were the transportation of flammable liquids by rail and the need for on-board voice and video recorders in main-track locomotives.
“That’s the good news, said TSB Chair Kathy Fox in releasing the new Watchlist. “What’s more troubling is the ongoing status of some persisting issues that have been on the Watchlist for some time.”
Watchlist 2018 contains two aviation-specific issues, one each for the rail and marine sectors, and thr…
