Maintenance Lapses Tied to Air Accidents

A recent spate of high-profile accidents is putting aviation maintenance procedures under a harsh spotlight, prompting calls in Congress for new legislation and tighter regulatory oversight.

This development will be the focus of a new webinar, “How Safe Are The Skies? Issues, Fears, and Remedies in Air Safety Today”, presented by the web site Aviation Today and scheduled for Tuesday, Dec. 18, 11:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. (ET). The keynote speaker will be John J. Goglia, former member of the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) and currently senior vice president for aviation operations and safety programs at JDA Aviation Technology Solutions. Also on the speaker panel will be Ramon Lopez, editor-in-chief of the Air Safety Week newsletter. The moderator will be John Persinos, publisher and editorial director of Aviation Today. Click here to register for this webinar

“The FAA and the airlines repeat this mantra, over and over again: air travel has never been safer,” says Persinos. “But is it? To be sure, commonly cited statistics seem to indicate safe skies for air travelers everywhere. However, a different story lurks beneath the surface.”

This no-nonsense webinar will look beyond the numbers and provide a realistic assessment of the state of air safety today. Goglia and Lopez, long-time air safety experts, will provide a summary of the top safety concerns and regulatory actions of the past year – and look ahead to what we can expect in the area of safety in 2008.

Continued prosperity in aviation has led to crowded skies and gridlocked airports, putting further pressure on an already overburdened Air Traffic Control system. Accidents and procedural lapses in 2007 have underscored chronic vulnerabilities in air safety that still need to be addressed. This webinar will discuss these challenges head on, providing practical and useful insights that aviation professionals of all types can apply to their jobs and businesses.

Notably, former NTSB official John Goglia will examine why the NTSB has decided to press the Federal Aviation Administration to set working hour limits for flight crews, aviation mechanics and now air traffic controllers, based on fatigue research, circadian rhythms, and sleep and rest requirements.

Goglia also will discuss why there is a new focus on improving safety among ground workers on the tarmac, and why the NTSB has extended its runway incursion reduction crusade to other types of ground accidents, such as runway overruns and takeoffs from the wrong runway, in the wake of high-profile fatal accidents in Illinois, Kentucky and Brazil. To register for this webinar, click here