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The Flight Safety Foundation (FSF) is a non-profit, international organization concerning research, education, advocacy, and communications in the field of aviation safety. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] FSF brings together aviation professionals [ 4 ] to help solve safety problems and bring an international perspective to aviation safety-related issues for the ...
Template:ASN generates an external link to a page at the Aviation Safety Network website containing a list of aircraft accidents related to a particular airport. These links can be found in airport articles and are also used as a reference for the IATA airport code.
Nepalese authorities found that the probable causes of the accident were the captain and air traffic controller's loss of situational awareness; language and technical problems caused the captain to experience frustration and a high workload; [16] the first officer's lack of initiative and inconclusive answers to the captain's questions; the ...
The Aviation Safety Reporting System, or ASRS, is the US Federal Aviation Administration's (FAA) voluntary confidential reporting system that allows pilots, air traffic controllers, cabin crew, dispatchers, maintenance technicians, ground operations, and UAS operators and drone flyers to confidentially report near misses or close call events in the interest of improving aviation safety.
System Wide Information Management (SWIM) is a global Air Traffic Management (ATM) industry initiative to harmonize the exchange of Aeronautical, Weather and Flight information for all Airspace Users and Stakeholders. SWIM is an integral part of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) Global Air Navigation Plan (GANP). The GANP ...
As of Jul 2006, this was the first-ever civil aviation (non-military) successful proof-of-concept flight test of this kind, conducted in the world. Airborne Internet technology offered potential solid support for the FAA’s NexGen air traffic management system, which required implementation of 4-dimensional trajectory flight planning.
The Expeditionary Combat Support System (ECSS) was a failed enterprise resource planning software project undertaken by the United States Air Force (USAF) between 2005 and 2012. The goal of the project was to automate and streamline the USAF's logistics operations by, in part, consolidating and replacing over 200 separate legacy systems .
An Air Malta crewman performing a pre-flight inspection of an Airbus A320.. Aviation safety is the study and practice of managing risks in aviation.This includes preventing aviation accidents and incidents through research, educating air travel personnel, passengers and the general public, as well as the design of aircraft and aviation infrastructure.