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NATIONAL BUSINESS AVIATION ASSOCIATION • focus
NBAA Continues Work with NTSB
On Behalf of Business Aviation Community
For years, NBAA has represented the recorder labs, as well as the board’s facilities
business aviation community in working
collaboratively with the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) to help enhance aviation safety. That tradition continued on Dec. 3, when an NBAA delegation spent several hours at NTSB’s headquarters in Washington, DC.
Some 20 representatives from the Association toured NTSB’s upgraded facilities, including NBAA President and CEO Ed Bolen; Doug Carr, NBAA’s vice president of regulatory and international affairs; Mark Larsen, NBAA’s senior manager of safety and flight operations and members of NBAA’s Board of Directors and Associate Member Advisory Council.
NBAA representatives toured the NTSB’s cockpit voice recorder and flight data
tasked with repairing electronic equipment, researching materials from accident scenes, and creating post-accident event sequence animations.
Larsen noted that during his meetings with NTSB officials, the safety board indicated it is clearly interested in continuing the focus it has had in recent years on better understanding the operational concerns of NBAA Members and other general aviation operators – including owner-aviators – in order to improve safety.
In addition to the work that the NTSB does with the Association’s professional staff, the safety board also routinely provides input to NBAA’s Safety Committee when the committee develops its annual list of the Top Safety Focus areas for business
aircraft operators.
“NBAA maintains regular communication with NTSB members
and staff, and the crux of those conversations involve finding common ground and working together on all aspects affecting the safety of our
M M e e m m b b e e r r s s , ,” ” L L a a r r s s e e n n e e x x p p l l a a i i n n e e d d . .
Personnel from NTSB also participate frequently in NBAA meetings. Most recently, NTSB’s Acting Chairman Chris Hart delivered the keynote address at the 2014 NBAA Business Aviation Convention & Exhibition (NBAA2014) in Orlando, FL.
NTSB staff will also participate in the NBAA Safety Committee’s annual risk-assessment meeting in January.
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