At its core, the Flight Risk Assessment Tool (FRAT) is a pre-flight evaluation of potential threats faced in a mission or flight....

All organizations need an Emergency Response Plan (ERP). Why? It is all about planning your response before an accident or incident...

If you have a Safety Management System in place in your organization, do you feel you have the risks you deal with under control? Are you...

In 2008, as Flight 81, a Hawker Beechcraft 125-100A departed Atlantic City, NJ for Owatonna, MN, an uncontrolled airport, on a...

Bob Conyers, Senior Manager, Safety Occasionally people who are contemplating SMS implementation express the concern that “SMS will place...

Modern, technology-based safety systems like SMS depend on data. Lots of data. Presumably, the more data, the better the system. If it...

There are new risks facing the aviation industry, with the threat of cyber attacks on automated systems and the growth of drones in...

NASA’s online Pilot Guide to In-Flight Icing offers a review of the science behind ice creation, the symptoms of its effects on flight...

Study To Begin Early Next Year In a speech Wednesday to the Air Transport Association of Canada, Kathy Fox, Chair of the Transportation...

Jan. 15, 2009 was a day that changed the aviation world forever. U.S. Airways flight 1549, with service from New York's Laguardia Airport...

Online Documents Offers Solid Foundation To Enhance Safety, Reduce Accidents Most of the time, getting back to basics can be a helicopter...

Transport Canada is joining a number of other regulators in enacting changes to fatigue risk management regulations that are backed by...

On 20 December 2009 an aircraft almost stalled at high altitude after the crew attempted to continue climbing beyond the maximum...