Making this year a successful year for your commercial aviation organization depends on one word: training. By emphasizing flight crew training, a commercial company equips their operating crew members with the tools to conduct flight operations smoothly and to confront any unexpected challenges successfully. When this fiscal year comes to an end, success could beContinue reading “Making This Year a Successful Year for Your Commercial Aviation Organization”
Category Archives: Safety Forecasts and Plans
How Unusuality and Reality Intersect in Flight Safety: A Simple Metric for Determining Major Hazards to Commercial Flight Operations from the Unremarkable Accumulation of Minor Unfavorable Elements and a Recommended Operations Adjustment Procedure to Avoid Mishap Occurrence
Abstract: The cascading collection of seemingly minor unfavorable elements during a particular commercial flight can often arouse little notice because there may be no collective safety measuring system or metric to assemble disparate elements. However, just as the story of “the straw that breaks the camel’s back[1]” informs us, flight crew members facing unusual accumulationsContinue reading “How Unusuality and Reality Intersect in Flight Safety: A Simple Metric for Determining Major Hazards to Commercial Flight Operations from the Unremarkable Accumulation of Minor Unfavorable Elements and a Recommended Operations Adjustment Procedure to Avoid Mishap Occurrence”
Air Asia 8501 Crash: Cause is No Mystery-Thunderstorms Can Kill
In the 1931 novel “Night Flight” by Saint-Exupéry, we learn that even intrepid pioneering aviation heroes in the end are not match for thunderstorms in Patagonia. We find out that thunderstorms can and will kill. We loose the wonderful hero of this timeless novel, a story of some of the earliest commercial night mail pilots.Continue reading “Air Asia 8501 Crash: Cause is No Mystery-Thunderstorms Can Kill”
Qantas Weight and Balance: Don’t Scrape Your Tail, Instead Hold Your Nose Steady
The below cited flight safety story contains a reference to an ATSB report, about which I have a comment. The story alleges that the report cites an incorrect weight and balance calculation as the problem. They say, “This meant that the captain had to apply a significant amount of back pressure [to the yoke] atContinue reading “Qantas Weight and Balance: Don’t Scrape Your Tail, Instead Hold Your Nose Steady”
MH 17 : Is War Downing Of Commercial Airliners a Security or Safety Issue ?
When a purposeful human pulls the trigger on a sophisticated surface to air missile launcher, but does so without any of the intelligence available to the casual browser on the internet, is this a human error or a military mistake? If the distinction between a commercial airliner and a military target is not discernible byContinue reading “MH 17 : Is War Downing Of Commercial Airliners a Security or Safety Issue ?”
MH370-Were there Hazardous Materials Loaded into the Cargo Hold?
The question of hazardous materials being carried on passenger aircraft has arisen in the quest to determine what happened to MH370. But very little information has surfaced concerning the cargo that was loaded by Malaysian Airlines into MH370. So the question remains unanswered: “Were hazardous materials loaded into the cargo hold of MH370?”
Problem Solving Skills Training a Factor in Fort Hood Shootings?
Solving the mystery of shootings at military activities may involve how the force is trained. First, my sincere condolences to all who have suffered a loss in this and other similar tragedies. Second, my hat is off to the Army Training Command for doing a great job of training soldiers for today’s force. Now inContinue reading “Problem Solving Skills Training a Factor in Fort Hood Shootings?”
Battery Cargo Lobbyists Victorious over Commercial Aviation Safety? What Happened to MH370?
Though ticketed passengers did not suspect, battery lobbyists had been victorious over the very best commercial aviation safety advocates. Through private meetings, where financial benefits of shipping dangerous lithium batteries to the battery industry by air freight are fostered, did lobbyists convince passenger airline executives to allow carriage onboard passenger commercial flights? Many commercial aviationContinue reading “Battery Cargo Lobbyists Victorious over Commercial Aviation Safety? What Happened to MH370?”
MH 370 and UPS 6 near Dubai, 2010: Same Mishap Repeated?
When UPS 6 crashed near Dubai in the evening of September 3, 2010, (http://www.gcaa.gov.ae/…/2010-Interim%20R.) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UPS_Airlines_Flight_6) the crew had been in a battle for their lives for about 20 minutes. Upon first realizing cargo area temperatures were rising and that smoke and fumes were entering the cockpit, the crew made a turn towards a divert field,Continue reading “MH 370 and UPS 6 near Dubai, 2010: Same Mishap Repeated?”
MH 370: Probable Location for Search Malaysian Airlines Flight 370, Missing B777 Was Hazardous Cargo Aboard?
MH 370: Probable Location for Search Malaysian Airlines Flight 370, Missing B777 Was Hazardous Cargo Aboard? Are Cargo Safety Regulations Important for PASSENGER Aircraft Flights? Two Levels of Safety May Mean No Level of Safety MH 370 flight crew members witnessing an overheat in the large cargo compartments of their Boeing 777, would mostContinue reading “MH 370: Probable Location for Search Malaysian Airlines Flight 370, Missing B777 Was Hazardous Cargo Aboard?”
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