Webinar: Air Safety Under Tougher Scrutiny

John Goglia, former member of the National Transportation Safety Board, will be the lead speaker in understanding why a recent spate of high-profile accidents is putting air safety procedures under a harsh spotlight during Aviation Today’s next Webinar – How Safe Are the Skies? Issues, Fears, and Remedies in Air Safety Today, scheduled for Tuesday, December 18, 11:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. (ET). Goglia will be joined by Ramon Lopez, editor-in-chief of the Air Safety Week. The moderator will be John Persinos, publisher and editorial director of Aviation Today.
"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 specifically addressing why the NTSB is focusing on regional airline training. 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.
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