If prevention of a mishap similar to the one being investigated is not the purpose of the safety mishap or incident investigation, then what is the purpose of the investigation?If the purpose is to level blame, for one party to escape blame, to shift blame to someone else, to share blame with other parties, wellContinue reading “Prevention by Investigation vs AF 447 Blame Game”
Category Archives: Safety Forecasts and Plans
AF447 again and again?
AF447 will undoubtedly reoccur again and again because the aircraft mishap investigation board failed to discover the cause of the mishap and instead blamed the mishap on the crew. Not only is this an inaccurate and unsubstantiated conclusion, it is also a conclusion that is misinformative. No airline reading this report will be able toContinue reading “AF447 again and again?”
Is Your Safety Investigation Local?
The information gathered from a local investigation to determine ‘what went wrong and how do we prevent it from recurring’ needs to be local. There is a tendency to defer investigations to higher authority, most likely because the local safety managers just do not have the equipment to analyze the DFDR and other technical records.Continue reading “Is Your Safety Investigation Local?”
Go Arounds, Missed Approaches and variations?
I would like to suggest that each reader spend a few minutes thinking about how many different procedures that their airline or aviation organization has for conducting a missed approach and/or a go around. Your first reaction might be “Just one.” But take another minute and consider the variations. Each aircraft type has a slightlyContinue reading “Go Arounds, Missed Approaches and variations?”
Safety Forecasts More AF Mishaps
Safety Forecasts and Plans has determined that since AF has devoted so many resources towards trying to prove that they were not legally at fault for the deaths of their AF 447 passengers, that AF has not devoted sufficient resources to preventing future mishaps of all kinds, and therefor should plan on more mishaps forContinue reading “Safety Forecasts More AF Mishaps”
AF 447, Safety Forecasting and Planning
Did the AF dispatch office fail to fulfill their duty to look at satellite data? Did AF flight ops management have a procedure to get the information about recent bad weather enroute passed to transoceanic flight crews, especially those transiting the tropical convergence zone? When you who are safety managers look at these questions, doContinue reading “AF 447, Safety Forecasting and Planning”
Why Did 44 Die in Russian TU 134 crash near Petrozavodsk
Again, why? Fog does not cause a plane to crash. If a plane is in fog and not able to descend to the runway, the procedure is for the crew to execute a missed approach and try another approach, hold for the weather to improve or divert to an alternate field nearby with better weather.Continue reading “Why Did 44 Die in Russian TU 134 crash near Petrozavodsk”
Did AF 447 use correct Turbulent Penetration Procedures?
The second issue seems to be flight crew training when in heavy turbulence and when the pitot-static system is not operating.Basic Instrument flying procedures in convective turbulence recommend a shift of instrument scan to attitude instruments and a disregard for pitot-static instruments, such as airspeed, vsi and altimeter. The procedure is to keep the wingsContinue reading “Did AF 447 use correct Turbulent Penetration Procedures?”
Does FAA even do safety correctly?
Why does the FAA not take immediate and rapid action on safety issues when a flight crew member, the NTSB or anyone else for that matter brings the issue and a solution to their attention? Quite a simple answer really: the FAA is run by lawyers and not safety professionals. Lawyers deny that there isContinue reading “Does FAA even do safety correctly?”
AF 447 Investigation Flawed itself?
1. Air France Flight Control Dispatcher in Paris should have been monitoring AF 447. Flight Control should have been monitoring all hazards impacting the flight such as severe convective weather and rerouted AF 447 around the hazard. A. Scheduled passenger airlines that operate under both US and European regulations control all flight operations from aContinue reading “AF 447 Investigation Flawed itself?”
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