Flight Safety Information February 17, 2016 - No. 034 In This Issue Seattle-bound Alaska Airlines jet makes emergency landing after smoke fills cockpit 2 Planes Collide On Taxiway At Detroit Metro Airport Passengers Stranded in Hot Plane for 3 Hours at Philadelphia Airport Nok Air Denies Flying Unqualified Trainee Pilots FAA Open to Discussing Turning Over Air Traffic Safety to Nonprofit Qantas' cardboard meal boxes catch alight and smoulder in aircraft ovens IATA: Zero fatal jet hull losses in 2015; four fatal turboprop losses Philippine Airlines bolsters fleet to go nonstop to US UK CAA and IATA Join Forces to Support Civil Aviation in Suriname Why You'll Have to Wait Years Before Getting That Gulfstream Personal Jet Work nearly finished on jet that caught fire in aborted Las Vegas takeoff Boeing Wins $1.3 Billion Order for 737s From China's Okay Air MU-2 Pilot's Review of Proficiency (PROP) Training RESEARCH SURVEY...MENTAL HEALTH & FLYING SURVEY Seattle-bound Alaska Airlines jet makes emergency landing after smoke fills cockpit An Alaska Airlines Boeing 737-800 takes off Tuesday, Jan. 26, 2016, at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport in Seattle. On Tuesday, Feb. 16, an Alaska pilot had to make an emergency landing in at Dulles International Airport in Washington, D.C. after smoke filled the cockpit. No injuries were reported. (The Associated Press) WASHINGTON - A flight headed to Seattle from Reagan National Airport had to make an emergency landing at nearby Dulles International Airport after its pilots reported smoke in the cockpit. Alaska Airlines spokesman Cole Cosgrove says the flight had just taken off around 10:22 a.m. when the pilots "noticed indications of smoke" in the cockpit. The plane landed at Dulles at 10:38 a.m. Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority spokesman Chris Paolino says six people were taken to the hospital. He says they were all members of the plane's crew. The Alaska Airlines Boeing 737 was carrying 161 passengers, all of whom were evacuated safely. Officials say the passengers were rebooked on other flights. Authorities say the cause of the incident remains under investigation. http://www.oregonlive.com/today/index.ssf/2016/02/alaska_airlines_jet_makes_emer.html Back to Top 2 Planes Collide On Taxiway At Detroit Metro Airport ROMULUS (WWJ) - There's been an accident at Detroit Metro Airport involving two planes. The incident happened around 6 a.m. Wednesday when the wing of an American Airlines plane clipped the tail of a Southwest Airlines while on the taxiway. Airport police are investigating what happened and how it happened. Airport Spokesperson Mike Conway said representatives from the National Transportation Safety Board are headed to Romulus to investigate. No injuries were reported, but passengers are still on the planes more than two hours later. The airport is currently working to relocate the planes to other gates, otherwise passengers will have to get off the plane out on the airfield. Rochester Hills resident Jim Bishop, who was headed down to Mexico, is among the passengers still stuck on the American Airlines flight. "We were taxiing over to get the wings de-iced and there was a plane sitting, kind of facing the opposite direction, and our wing came across the back of that plane and we were just too close to it and clipped the back," he said. "It tore a piece of our wing off and the tail cone is cut completely off of the other plane." Bishop, who was sitting in an aisle seat, said the whole plane shook from the collision. "The lady sitting next to me, she was like 'Oh my God! We're too close,'" he said. Roughly five to 10 minutes passed, Bishop said, before crews told passengers what was going on. "Somebody came over and said there was an accident," he said. " And then a stewardess just came by and we asked him what could we do - you know, we've been sitting here for an hour and the air is not on, it's stuffy as it can be in here - and he said 'Well, this has never happened so we don't know what to do.'" Bishop said the passengers are calm but angry - many are now missing connecting flights as they sit on the tarmac and wait for instructions. "The metal is kind of ground together, so we're waiting for the other plane to pull forward to free our wing from the back of their plane," he said. "Their plane died I guess, so that plane is going to have to be towed away from us and then we can go back to the gate." Conway said officials hope to have the situation resolved quickly. "It doesn't look like a lot of damage," he said. "No fuel leakage. No injuries." http://detroit.cbslocal.com/2016/02/17/reports-planes-collide-at-detroit-metro-airport/ Back to Top Passengers Stranded in Hot Plane for 3 Hours at Philadelphia Airport A mechanical issue left more than 150 passengers stranded on a taxiway at Philadelphia International Airport for nearly three hours Monday night, Frontier Airlines confirmed to ABC. After shutting off the engines to conserve fuel while waiting for de-icing, the pilot -- slated to fly from Philadelphia to Tampa -- was unable to re-start the plane. He reportedly told passengers the problem with the auxiliary power unit had also wiped out the jet's heating and air conditioning systems, leaving travelers stuck on a plane with "no air, no circulation and a screaming baby," according to passenger Shana Laura. "I was really trying to keep myself calm," said Laura, who is pregnant with her first child. "You started feeling like you couldn't breathe.... I was on the verge of hyperventilating." The plane sat on the tarmac "just shy of three hours," before being towed to the gate, Frontier said. The airline attributed the delay to a "lack of gate space because of other diversions" at the airport. (Regulations prohibit airlines from keeping passengers inside planes on the tarmac for more than three hours unless there are security concerns or air traffic control "advises the pilot that returning to the terminal would disrupt airport operations," according to the Department of Transportation.) According to Laura, flight attendants made the rounds with a beverage cart just once and instructed passengers that they shouldn't leave their seats to use the bathroom. The flight was eventually cancelled. When passengers returned to the gate just before midnight, they were eventually offered hotel vouchers -- for a hotel that they would later learn was already fully booked. Many of those that didn't have anywhere to go holed up at the airport for the night, the airline confirmed. Frontier eventually offered passengers refunds and travel vouchers and said it was bringing in a plane to fly passengers to Tampa this afternoon. http://abcnews.go.com/US/passengers-stranded-hot-plane-hours-philadelphia- airport/story?id=36978587 Back to Top Nok Air Denies Flying Unqualified Trainee Pilots BANGKOK - Nok Air has been warned it could lose its license if it repeats the poor handling of a crisis that left hundreds of passengers stranded Monday as the airline denies a former manager's accusation that it has been using unqualified trainees to fly its planes. The Tuesday warning from the Ministry of Transport came a day after representatives of the budget airline failed to show up at a meeting to discuss solutions to the situation that left more than 1,500 passengers stranded Sunday. "When this kind of incident happens, the CEO or top executives must take responsibility immediately," government spokesman Maj. Gen. Sansern Kaewkamnerd said. "But in this case, there were only lower rank staff members trying to solve the situation." Meanwhile a pilot who served as the airline's manager of flight standards - and was fired Tuesday - accused his former employer of violating regulations. Sanit Kongpetch said Nok failed to deal with a pilot shortage and instead has been posing unqualified trainees as pilots. He said the airline failed to hire adequate numbers of pilots for its flights since there were at least 30 pilots resigned last year. Nok Air CEO Patee Sarasin this afternoon dismissed the accusation, saying all of the airline's pilots are qualified in accordance with international standards, and that the airline has enough pilots as it reduced its number of flights. The CEO said it would violate regulations to field unqualified student pilots as Sanit alleged because they must be authorized by Department of Civil Aviation. The Civil Aviation Training Center and Department of Civil Aviation could not be reached for comment. Nok Air was called in by the government Tuesday for a stern warning. Minister of Transport Akom Termpitayapaisit said Nok's license will be suspended if an incident such as Sunday's happens again and will be revoked after a third offense. The airline, whose major stakeholder is Thai Airways International, was given until Thursday to submit immediate contingency and risk management plans. At least five flights were abruptly canceled on Sunday. The airline quickly blamed striking pilots who failed to meet heightened standards; the pilots denied organizing a work stoppage and accused the airline of trying to paper over internal issues. Patee said Tuesday that his airline now has only 130 pilots due to many leaving for other airlines during the past year. "After some pilots resigned, we have been reducing flights by 10 percent to 15 percent," he said. "Hence it was our weakness that caused a problem when pilots suddenly took leave together on the same day." Patee said he did not solve the matter in a timely fashion because he was out of town with his wife for Valentine's Day and failed to delegate authority to other executives. The CEO further explained the airline's woes on the Chinese zodiac. Three company executives were born in the Year of the Tiger, the airline CEO explained, which makes for great misfortune in this Year of the Monkey. To turn things around, Patee said the executives plan to make merit together at a temple. http://www.khaosodenglish.com/detail.php?newsid=1455698180§ion=13&typecate=06 Back to Top FAA Open to Discussing Turning Over Air Traffic Safety to Nonprofit By Alan Levin The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration is reviewing a House Republican plan to spin off the nation's air- traffic control system to a nonprofit corporation and hasn't rejected the idea. FAA Administrator Michael Huerta, speaking Tuesday at the Singapore Airshow, said the agency hasn't yet reached a decision on the plan that passed the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee on Thursday. Huerta said the government is "open to having a conversation" on the future of air traffic so long as it promotes safety, enhances development of new technology and guarantees long- term funding. "Clearly there is a lot of controversy around it, and so what we are really looking forward is where there might be opportunities to foster not only a consensus among the airlines but a consensus among all the users of the system and a bipartisan consensus on what's really best for the industry," he said. Transportation Committee Chairman Bill Shuster, a Pennsylvania Republican, included the measure stripping the FAA of its air-traffic function in a bill authorizing agency operations for the next six years. The change is needed to insulate FAA from political pressures that have hindered its efficiency and to ensure it receives adequate funding without threats from political gridlock, Shuster has said. No Position "At this point, we haven't taken a position on the current proposal," Huerta said. "We've been evaluating it. There are a lot of things that are in there, there are a lot of questions that we have and we are going to look at it." "The FAA administrator's comments were made on behalf of the FAA as a federal agency and not on behalf of the administration," the agency said later in an e-mailed statement. The Obama administration hasn't taken a stand on the proposal. Opponents say it would be a mistake to strip Congress of its ability to oversee the agency. The plan has been opposed by most Democrats, and House Republican leaders on Friday signaled that they were putting off a vote on the bill because of disagreements over the measure. The FAA's funding expires on March 31, so lawmakers may have to pass a temporary extension allowing the agency to function while it decides how to handle the controversial proposal. http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/national/2016/02/16/398802.htm Back to Top Qantas' cardboard meal boxes catch alight and smoulder in aircraft ovens Meal boxes found smouldering on Qantas planes Flight attendants have taken scores of photographs of singed cardboard meal boxes to highlight their concerns. Cardboard meal boxes for Qantas economy passengers have been found smouldering in ovens at the back of planes and on one occasion caught alight. In an incident just over two weeks ago, flight attendants discovered flames in an oven on a Qantas 737 aircraft just 5 minutes after they had begun heating cardboard boxes full of food such as meat pastries and sandwiches. The cabin crew used a fire extinguisher on the food which they had heated at the correct temperature of 275 degrees Celsius. Some packages were found smouldering. The plane was on the ground at the time in preparation for take off. Flight attendants have been taking scores of photographs of scorched boxes for the past few weeks to document their concerns. The Flight Attendants Association of Australia, which represents thousands of Qantas staff, had been demanding for several weeks that the airline remove the affected cardboard boxes from service and carry out an independent review. It also took its concerns to Australia's air-safety regulator, the Civil Aviation Safety Authority. "It is extremely important that you are vigilant and report every incident of abnormal marking/scorching, moisture, smell," the union said in a note to flight attendants on February 5 following the most serious incident. "Your association believes there has been significant under-reporting of scorched boxes and that it has become 'normalized'. Qantas maintains it is not a product safety problem." The incidents of scorched meal boxes have been limited to Qantas' 737 aircraft, which have convection ovens, unlike its twin-aisle A330 planes which use steam-based ovens. Qantas has since removed two ovens from its planes. The union said testing immediately after the incident late last month revealed boxes were still scorched despite the removal of a third rung from the bottom of ovens to allow better air circulation as engineers had advised. However, after meeting Qantas management on Wednesday afternoon, the union said it had been given assurances that the product was safe and crews would be given further instructions about how to heat the meal boxes on planes. The national secretary of the FAAA's domestic division, Jo Ann Davidson, said the union had been inundated with photographs of scorched meal boxes from crew. "Having had a meeting with senior management today, I have been given an assurance that the product is totally safe," she said. A Qantas spokeswoman said changes had been made as a precaution to the way crews prepare meals, including reducing the number loaded into ovens at any one time, and reducing heat. "Both the ovens and the oven-safe cardboard are used by many airlines around the world, and we've done additional testing over the past couple of months to ensure that they are safe," she said. "We serve millions of meals in these boxes on hundreds of thousands of flights each year, so this is obviously an extremely rare event." The ovens on Qantas' 737 fleet are designed to contain heat and fire and have a cut-off protection when they reach a certain temperature. The airline has been using cardboard meal boxes on domestic flights for the past three years. As a safety precaution, the union advised Qantas early this month that ovens should be switched off during take off while cabin crew are seated. Any remaining heating can resume once flight attendants are on their feet. A spokesman for CASA said Qantas was keeping it informed of the issue. http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/qantas-cardboard-meal-boxes-catch-alight-and-smoulder-in- aircraft-ovens-20160217-gmwayp.html#ixzz40QkvlsXC Back to Top IATA: Zero fatal jet hull losses in 2015; four fatal turboprop losses Not a single accidental jet hull loss in 2015 resulted in fatalities, according to IATA's 2015 Safety Performance report. Four turboprop accidents resulting in hull loss occurred during the year, resulting in 136 fatalities. The previous five-year period (2010-2014) had an average of 17.6 fatal accidents and 504 fatalities per year. As measured in hull losses per million jet flights, the global jet accident rate in 2015 was 0.32-the equivalent of one major accident for every 3.1 million flights. "This was not as good as the rate of 0.27 achieved in 2014, but a 30% improvement compared to the previous five-year rate (2010-2014) of 0.46 hull loss accidents per million jet flights," IATA said. The global turboprop accident rate in 2015 was 1.29 hull losses per every one million turboprop flights; the rate for the previous five-years (2010-2014) was 3.95 turboprop hull losses per one million flights. "2015 was another year of contrasts when it comes to aviation's safety performance," IATA DG and CEO Tony Tyler said. "In terms of fatal accidents, it was an extraordinarily safe year. And the long-term trend data show that flying is getting even safer." IATA's safety performance evaluation does not include the hull losses and accompanying fatalities incurred from Germanwings 9525 and Metrojet 9268, which resulted in the deaths of a combined 374 passengers and crew. Each incident is classified by IATA as a "deliberate act of unlawful interference," with the Germanwings disaster noted as an act brought on by pilot suicide and the Metrojet downing a result of suspected terrorism. "We were all shocked and horrified by two deliberate acts [of] destruction," Tyler said. "While there are no easy solutions to the mental health and security issues that were exposed in these tragedies, aviation continues to work to minimize the risk that such events will happen again." http://atwonline.com/safety/iata-zero-fatal-jet-hull-losses-2015-four-fatal-turboprop-losses Back to Top Philippine Airlines bolsters fleet to go nonstop to US Philippine Airlines has placed an order for six A350-900 jets with Airbus, with the option to purchase a further six, the two companies announced at the Singapore Airshow Wednesday. The list price is $1.8 billion, Airbus CEO Fabrice Bregier said at a press conference at the airshow Wednesday, but added, "regretfully, PAL didn't pay the catalog price." The order will allow Philippine Airlines to add nonstop service between Manila and the U.S. West Coast and to New York. Currently, PAL's New York-to-Manila route stops over in Vancouver. Philippine airlines aircraft seen through heat haze while parked at Manila international airport. The nonstop services will place the Philippine carrier into direct competition with other airlines, such as Singapore Airlines and United Airlines, which are planning long-haul nonstop flights to the U.S. from Asia. The flights are particularly popular with business travelers as they avoid long layovers. Currently, Emirates is operating the longest nonstop flight, a more than 17 hour trek between its home base of Dubai and Panama City. Other lengthy flights include Dallas to Sydney (almost 17 hours), Johannesburg to Atlanta (16 hours 40 minutes) and Dubai to Los Angeles (16 hours 35 minutes), according to the AFP. PAL also hopes to use the new Airbus jets to add more flights to Europe. The Philippines had been placed on the European Union blacklist in 2010 due to safety concerns about the country, but in 2013, PAL was allowed to resume flights to the region and the carrier currently flies to London. It is hoping to add flights to destinations including Paris and Amsterdam. PAL is also planning to add a nonstop flight from Cebu to Los Angeles next month on the A340. http://www.cnbc.com/2016/02/17/philippine-airlines-fleet-fly-non-stop-to-us.html Back to Top UK CAA and IATA Join Forces to Support Civil Aviation in Suriname CAA International (CAAi), the overseas advisory arm of the UK Civil Aviation Authority (UK CAA), has been awarded a new capacity building project in Suriname. The project, led by CAAi, will be delivered in partnership with the International Air Transport Association (IATA). The 13-month contract will see the UK CAA support the Ministry of Transport, Communication and Tourism (MTCT) of Suriname in the implementation of a modernised legal and institutional framework for civil aviation. Experts from the UK CAA and IATA Consulting visited the South American country last month (January 2016) to embark on the project. They were greeted by key civil aviation representatives of Suriname including the MTCT, the Acting Director of Civil Aviation Safety Authority Suriname (CASAS), and the Senior Adviser to the President of the Republic of Suriname to name a few. The project team also met the Deputy Director of the ICAO South American (SAM) Regional Office to affirm the common goal of raising the level of effective implementation in Suriname and the SAM Region. Sponsored by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), the project aims to raise Suriname's safety oversight system and regulatory effectiveness to support the growth of Suriname and its eco-tourism industry. The UK CAA and IATA will support the drafting of a new Civil Aviation Act, assess options for the establishment of a new Civil Aviation Authority in Suriname and set up an independent air accident investigations body. The project team will support the separation of regulation and service provision functions and will review possibilities of privatisation and/or corporatisation models of other aviation services such as Air Navigation Service Providers (ANSPs) and Aerodromes. The project will also include the development of an implementation plan to support the modernised institutional framework. For more information, please contact: Javier.ColleDeLaTorre@caainternational.com or visit www.caainternational.com. Back to Top Why You'll Have to Wait Years Before Getting That Gulfstream Personal Jet Gulfstream Aerospace Corp. says it's unable to keep up with demand from the rich. Pay $65 million for the G650 or G650ER personal jets, and your wait to board them could be as long as two years, Scott Neal, Gulfstream's senior vice president of worldwide sales and marketing, said in a Bloomberg Television interview Tuesday at the Singapore Air Show. The G650ER "has taken market share at the top end of the market. It's really created a new market to itself," Neal said. "The next available delivery for a new G650 or G650ER is a little over two years from now." Savannah, Georgia-based Gulfstream is seeing such strong demand for its personal jets from corporations and chief executives that the General Dynamics Corp. unit is looking to increase production of planes in the G650 family, Neal said. Gulfstream is grabbing share from rivals with its flagship large-cabin aircraft as the market becomes more receptive to the usefulness of a private aircraft in running a business. Receptive Market "We have seen a real shift to people understanding that business aircraft are truly for business," Neal said. "Large companies and private individuals can't do what they do without the benefit of a corporate aircraft." Millionaires in search of new toys are set to fuel a fourfold jump in Asia's share of private jets in the next five years, according to a 2013 forecast by aviation consultant Jetsolution International Services Ltd. Asians may own as much as 20 percent of the global luxury jet fleet by 2017 as economic growth spawns new millionaires. Southeast Asia will create the next wave of demand for private aircraft, benefiting Gulfstream, Embraer SA and Textron Inc.'s Cessna, the aviation consultant said. Asia Pacific is already Gulfstream's second-biggest market and "will continue to grow," Neal said. "But it will be some time before it overtakes the U.S. I couldn't predict when." The G650 family has a range of about 13,000 kilometers (8,080 miles), sleeps as many as 10 people and can cruise as high as 51,000 feet. Gulfstream delivered about 150 planes last year and is expanding its maintenance support network, he said. The plane can fit 18 passengers in its 8.5-foot-wide cabin, according to the website. A longer, wider cabin and a choice of 12 floorplans offer more design configurations for meetings, entertaining and relaxing, the company says. A convection oven, large ice drawers and fitted storage for flatware and crystal enhance the dining options, according to the company. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-02-16/wait-two-years-for-that-65-million- gulfstream-personal-jet Back to Top Work nearly finished on jet that caught fire in aborted Las Vegas takeoff A damaged British Airways Boeing 777-200 is parked at McCarran International Airport on Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2015, in Las Vegas. An engine caught fire before takeoff Tuesday forcing the evacuation of the crew and passengers. (David Becker/Las Vegas Review- Journal) Work is nearing completion on the British Airways Boeing 777 that caught fire after an aborted takeoff in Las Vegas in September, but airline officials aren't saying when the plane will be flown from McCarran International Airport. A construction tent that had been placed over the hull of the wide-bodied jet has been removed. An aluminum alloy skin patch appears to have been placed on the port side of the aircraft. The port-side jet engine that had been removed last year has yet to be replaced. "Safety is always British Airways' first priority," a spokeswoman for the London-based airline said in an email. "A team from Boeing is carrying out the repair work, which will be certified to the same high standards as if the aircraft was brand new. The aircraft will resume flying once stringent checks have been completed." The spokeswoman said no timeline has been set for when the aircraft would resume flying. While parked at McCarran, British Airways is paying $375 a day in fees and by the end of February, the bill would reach more than $53,000. The jet, a twin-engine Boeing 777-200ER, was scheduled to fly as British Airways Flight 2276 from McCarran to London's Gatwick International Airport on Sept. 8. Midway through its takeoff run, before the plane lifted off the ground, the jet's left engine experienced an uncontained failure that started a fire. Debris spewed out of the engine and onto the runway. The pilot shut down the engine and aborted the takeoff and while McCarran's emergency response crews sped to the burning plane, the plane's 157 passengers and 13 crew members began evacuating on emergency slides. A preliminary National Transportation Safety Board report in October said the "left engine and pylon, left fuselage structure and inboard left wing ... were substantially damaged by the fire." Officials reported 14 people suffered minor injuries, most of them as a result of a rough ride down the emergency chutes. The runway was closed for four hours. Aviation experts initially said they expected the plane's insurers to declare the aircraft a "hull loss," meaning that it was too damaged for repair and that it would be disassembled for parts. In December, the airline determined that the plane's damage was suitable for repair so a plan was established to bring repair crews to McCarran to make the jet airworthy. http://www.reviewjournal.com/news/las-vegas/work-nearly-finished-jet-caught-fire- aborted-las-vegas-takeoff Back to Top Boeing Wins $1.3 Billion Order for 737s From China's Okay Air Boeing Co. secured a $1.3 billion order for narrow-body planes from Okay Airways, with the Chinese regional carrier set to decide on its first wide-body order by the end of the year as it seeks to expand internationally. Okay Air agreed to buy 12 single-aisle 737s, with an option to purchase eight more, Chicago-based Boeing said in a statement distributed at the Singapore Airshow Wednesday. The Chinese carrier, which is headquartered in Beijing and counts Tianjin as its hub, is purchasing eight 737Max-8, three 737MAX-9 and one 737 NG900-ER. The purchase on the second day of the Singapore Airshow comes amid speculation that the heyday of big orders from India and Southeast Asia is ending, and that airlines in the region might have to delay delivery of planes as economic growth slows. Boeing expects China to overtake the U.S. as the world's biggest aviation market in 20 years. Okay Air Chairman Wang Shusheng told reporters Wednesday that the airline needs more planes with its load factor at 90 percent. The carrier plans to fly to Hawaii and Fiji using wide-body planes, and will decide between Airbus Group SE's A350 and Boeing's 787 by the end of the year, he said. Okay Air's deal comes two months after Boeing landed an order for 110 planes valued at $10 billion in list prices from state-owned China Southern Airlines Co. In September, Boeing inked a deal to build a finishing plant for single-aisle planes in China. China Eastern Airlines Corp., Air China Ltd. and other Chinese carriers will require about 6,330 new planes worth $950 billion in the next two decades, according to Boeing. That's about 17 percent of the global total. Chinese airlines and leasing companies announced orders for some 780 planes valued at about $102 billion during last year alone. Okay Air plans to increase international flights to 34 percent of its total by 2020, from the current 5 percent, Wang said. Its only international destinations currently are Thailand, Japan and Korea's Jeju Island, using a fleet made up almost entirely of Boeing narrow-body planes. The airline is the first Chinese airline to order the 737 Max 9, according to Boeing. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-02-17/boeing-wins-1-3-billion-order-for- 737s-from-china-s-okay-air-ikqa7saa Back to Top MU-2 Pilot's Review of Proficiency (PROP) Training April 1-2, 2015 Dallas, TX April 15 - 16, 2016 Tucson, AZ April 29 - 30, 2016 Covington, KY Click Here To Register! www.turbineair.com Back to Top RESEARCH SURVEY MENTAL HEALTH & FLYING SURVEY Hi, my name is Daniel Danczyk. I am soliciting participation in my survey on mental health and flying. If you are involved in seeing pilots with mental health or substance abuse issues, or are involved in their cases, please complete my anonymous survey (link below). On average, completion takes no more than 5-7 minutes. You do not need to be a clinician to participate; I am looking for anyone that is involved in the medical treatment or certification of pilots, whether they are doctors, airline employees assisting with monitoring, private consultants, HIMS participants, government, or other experts. Below the survey link is a more detailed description of my study including consent and contact information. Thank you so much for your time! Daniel Danczyk, MD Fellow in Aerospace Medicine AME/Flight Surgeon/Pilot/Psychiatrist Mental Health and Flying Survey https://src.co1.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_0xLGAkp4CAtv36d STUDY/CONSENT INFORMATION IRB #: 15-008911 Mayo Clinic: Office for Human Research Protection Protocol Title: Airline transport pilots and mental health: A Comparison of the medical certification process between the U.S. and various European countries. Principal Investigator: Lawrence Steinkraus, MD You are being asked to participate in a research study about pilots and their mental health. The purpose of this research is to study how mental health medical certification is processed for pilots in their respective country. You are being invited to participate because you are involved in some aspect of their aeromedical-mental health certification. If you agree to participate you will be asked to complete an online anonymous survey questionnaire. This will take no more than 10-15 minutes of your time. No information will be recorded about you other than your country of origin. Confidentiality will be maintained by NOT being able to trace back your responses to you. In other words, your survey response will be assigned a random number for tracking/statistical purposes but cannot be traced back to you. You will receive no payment for your participation. There are no known risks to you from taking part in this research study. You may refuse to answer any question(s) that you do not wish to answer. The benefits which may reasonably be expected to result from this research study are to improve the process for mental health medical certification of pilots in your country. Please understand your participation is voluntary and you have the right to withdraw your consent or discontinue participation at any time without penalty. Your submission of the survey questionnaire signifies your consent to participate. Moreover, your current or future medical care at the Mayo Clinic will not be jeopardized if you choose not to participate. If you have any questions about this research study you can contact my co-investigator, Dr. Daniel Danczyk, at danczyk.daniel@mayo.edu. If you have any concerns, complaints, or general questions about research or your rights as a participant, please contact the Mayo Institutional Review Board (IRB) to speak to someone independent of the research team at 507-266-4000 or toll free at 866-273-4681. Curt Lewis