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Weekly UpdatesJun 14, 2009
RAAOs Strategic Safety Initiative has four elements. It is bringing together safety professionals to review procedures and address issues that can even be perceived as a contributing factor to an accident. The association will commission an independent and scientific study, analyzing the impact of fatigue and other human factors that may affect pilot performance. RAA will create a fatigue awareness management program for use by its member airlines. The industry is reaching out in partnership with Congress, across the government, and to fellow stakeholders in labor and throughout the aviation industry to explore the full range of issues which could help improve safety and prevent future accidents. Among those issues: Establish a single, integrated FAA database of pilot record, extend the period for background checks from five to 10 years, conduct random fatigue testing, examine commuting, analyze information from cockpit voice recorders in settings other than accident investigations and in check ride data for trends. www.raa.org. Jun 12, 2009
US Regional Airline Assn. announced at a Congressional hearing that it would "push for new advances in aviation safety" following this week's announcement that FAA will inspect regional carrier training programs to ensure they are fully compliant. "We need to take bold action to address every single issue that could possibly affect the culture of safety that is the fundamental cornerstone of the aviation industry," RAA President Roger Cohen told members of the House aviation subcommittee. He said RAA will establish a board that will review procedures and issues, conduct a study on fatigue and human factors, create a fatigue awareness program and form an industry-government partnership to develop an integrated database of pilot records. "We need to take steps into the new frontier of information management to better track trends and analyze human factors," he said. Jun 12, 2009
A Senate panel probing the safety of regional carriers is calling on the FAA to mandate that airlines examine full training records when hiring new pilots. Currently, pilots must sign a privacy waiver before the records are released. "We need to fix that and fix that soon," said Sen. Byron Dorgan, D-N.D., chairman of the Commerce Committee's aviation panel. "There is no reason that you can learn everything there is to know about the airplane, but not the pilot." Jun 11, 2009
Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood and FAA Administrator Randy Babbitt have called all U.S. airlines -- both major and regional -- for a safety summit in Washington next week. Labor unions and other industry stakeholders also are being asked to attend, as regulators attempt to hash out a voluntary framework for improving the safety of regional airlines. Jun 10, 2009
US Airways, Airbus, CFMI
U.S. aviation regulators may consider raising engine safety standards after goose strikes forced a US Airways jet to land in New YorkOs Hudson River, a Federal Aviation Administration official said. The FAA will see what changes if any need to occur after the incident, Robert Ganley, the agencies engine and propeller manager, told the National Transportation Safety Board hearing today. The NTSB, which is investigating the accident, may explore recommending tougher benchmarks, board member Robert Sumwalt said after the hearing in Washington. Engine-safety standards are getting scrutiny after investigators said 3 Canada geese, weighing 8 pounds on average, crashed into the US Airways CFM engines Jan. 15, robbing the Airbus SAS A320 jet of almost all its thrust. The FAA requires that engines be able to shut down safely, without breaking apart or catching fire, after a hit by a single 4-pound bird. Jun 8, 2009
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