Flight Safety Information April 14, 2016 - No. 073 In This Issue Plane makes emergency landing in Portland FAA Confirms Shooting A Drone Is A Federal Crime Asiana Airlines to pay city $3.45 million for SFO crash costs Aviation bosses reject safety recommendations made after part of passenger jet falls off mid flight EASA Chief Issues Safety Warning for Asia and Europe Tail-strike damage found after Corendon 737 diversion Operating licence withdrawn from loss-making Senegal Airlines Brazil Launches New International Airshow in Rio From 2017 Airlines improve punctuality, but complaints persist Austrian Airlines to hire 160 pilots, 400 flight attendants Rand Paul Wants to Allow Every Airline Pilot to Carry a Gun How to take a private jet from LA to SF for only $109 INFLIGHT EMERGENCY RESPONSE - 2016 Official Recommends FAA Plan To Control Space Traffic PhD Research Request Graduate Research Request 1st Risk Culture Survey Plane makes emergency landing in Portland PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - An Alaska Airlines flight has made an emergency landing in Portland. The Boeing 737 flight was headed to Phoenix from Portland Wednesday. It returned to Portland International Airport, safely landing at 11 a.m. Alaska Airlines spokeswoman Bobbie Egan says the plane returned because of a loss of pressure in the cabin. She says the airline was working to put the 144 passengers on another flight to Phoenix. http://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/plane-makes-emergency-landing-in-portland/ Back to Top FAA Confirms Shooting A Drone Is A Federal Crime. So When Will U.S. Prosecute? By: John Goglia - CONTRIBUTOR In the wake of the latest drone shooting, this time in Norfork, Ark., many in the drone community have been wondering whether unmanned aircraft were federally protected from criminal destruction just like manned aircraft. Since the FAA considers drones to be aircraft, it makes sense that they would have the same federal protections as manned aircraft since the FAA holds their operation to many of the same standards. But with at least a dozen reported shootings of drones and no federal prosecution, the question of their federally-protected status remained open. But today the FAA in response to my questioning confirmed that shooting down a drone is a federal crime and cited 18 USC 32. That statute makes it a felony to damage or destroy an aircraft. Mark Zuckerberg, founder and chief executive officer of Facebook Inc., views a drone flying while speaking at the Facebook F8 Developers Conference in San Francisco, California, U.S., on Tuesday, April 12, 2016. (Michael Short/Bloomberg) According to Loretta Alkalay, an aviation attorney who teaches Drone Law at Vaughn College of Aeronautics and Technology, the statute also prohibits interfering with anyone "engaged in the authorized operation of such aircraft" and carries a penalty of up to 20 years in prison. Since drones are considered aircraft, threatening a drone or a drone operator, according to Ms. Alkalay, would also be a federal crime subject to five years in prison under this same statute. The question I have not been able to get an answer to - despite repeated calls and emails to the FBI and the Department of Justice - is when the United States will federally prosecute someone for shooting down a drone. According to the FAA "regardless of the situation, shooting at any aircraft - including unmanned aircraft - poses a significant safety hazard. An unmanned aircraft hit by gunfire could crash, causing damage to persons or property on the ground, or it could collide with other objects in the air. " It's time the United States put an end to these dangerous acts and criminally prosecuted those who shoot at unmanned aircraft. The recent case in Arkansas would be a good place to start. http://www.forbes.com/sites/johngoglia/2016/04/13/faa-confirms-shooting-drone-federal-crime-so-when- will-us-prosecute/#568c33f153ef Back to Top Asiana Airlines to pay city $3.45 million for SFO crash costs Fire crews pour water and foam on an Asiana Airlines Boeing 777 that crashed while it was attempting to land from Seoul, South Korea at San Francisco International Airport in San Francisco, Calif. Asiana Airlines has agreed to pay San Francisco $3.45 million to resolve the city's civil claims against the airline for its July 2013 crash at San Francisco International Airport, in which three passengers were killed and 50 others seriously injured. The proposed settlement, which is subject to approval by the Board of Supervisors, would resolve all of San Francisco's unlitigated claims against the South Korean airline. The money would cover the city's costs for legal fees and site cleanup, according to the city attorney's office, which negotiated the deal. "This proposed settlement represents the final chapter in the sad tragedy Asiana caused, and we're grateful to reach a resolution on our claims without the need for litigation," City Attorney Dennis Herrera said in a statement. Asiana Flight 214 smashed into a seawall while attempting to land at SFO. Three teenage girls died, including one who was run over by a rescue vehicle while she lay injured on the runway. The two others were in the tail of the plane, which came off when the plane hit the seawall. The National Transportation Safety Board determined that the crash was caused by errors on the part of the crew. The settlement will go before the supervisors' Government Audit and Oversight Committee before returning to the full board for a vote. http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Asiana-Airlines-to-pay-city-3-45-million-for-SFO-7247069.php Back to Top Aviation bosses reject safety recommendations made after part of passenger jet falls off mid flight (U.K.) Gatwick Airport AVIATION bosses have rejected safety recommendations made after part of a passenger jet fell off mid flight. The Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) suggested new measures to regulators including the European Aviation Safety Agency and the Federal Aviation Administration and company Boeing Commercial Airplanes after a Boeing 757-300 was forced to return to Gatwick Airport in October 2014. But company bosses said the requests to make their handbooks easier to understand were unnecessary. The wing slide unit of the Thomas Cook Flight TCX1638 plunged to the ground on October 31 while en route to Hurghada in Egypt. The aircraft left at 9am with 239 passengers and ten crew members on board. The object fell from 5,250 feet landing on Sussex and Kent border near Tunbridge Wells. Two passengers saw "something white" detach from the aeroplane and informed a member of the cabin crew, the AAIB report said. Eye witnesses described seeing an object of four metres long by a metre wide fall from the sky. Police were called in to search for it but the fault was not reported until the aircraft was flying over Belgium. The plane landed safely and no-one was injured. Thomas Cook apologised to customers for the delay and they were put on a replacement flight later that day. A probe by the AAIB was launched and a report was published in August last year. Two safety recommendations to the European Aviation Safety Agency, the Federal Aviation Administration and other regulators calling for the way door and emergency exits were described to be standardised to avoid "potential misunderstanding" between crews and emergency services during an evacuation. The agency said clear and plain wording was used in the majority of communications as well as alternatives like hand signals but there were differences between organisations. It said some services found a number system was "prone to errors" and not all had access to information on different planes in advance. It asked 30 emergency service staff for their experiences and none had experienced any safety problems during an airport incident. It added: "During an emergency, very little or no time at all is available to consult a crash card or equivalent document. As no evidence of a safety case has been reported, the agency will not impose a standard of doors numbering." Boeing Commercial Airplanes was told to amend a handbook on procedures but it "respectfully disagreed" to do so. The company said the plane could be landed safely if this sort of incident occurred and it would not affect a pilot's control of the plane. It added: "Boeing cannot find any compelling information requiring a change that would potentially limit the options available to crews for landing." The AAIB received the responses in November but has only just made them public. Background THE wing slide unit is a part of an aircraft containing an evacuation chute. This is used in an emergency after the plane lands. In this incident the object was thought to be trailing from the plane before it fell off. Passengers saw it fall off the aircraft and alerted air cabin crew. Eye witnesses also saw it fall from the sky. No one was injured and police were sent to look for it. http://www.theargus.co.uk/news/ Back to Top EASA Chief Issues Safety Warning for Asia and Europe Along with many other Indonesia carriers, Lion Air remains on a European Commission safety black list, over concerns that the country's aviation authorities are not equipped to enforce safety standards. [Photo: Airbus] The European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) is concerned that some southeast Asia countries may jeopardizing safety because their civil aviation authorities do not have the skills to oversee their own airlines, many of which are rapidly expanding their fleets. At the same time, EASA executive director Patrick Ky also warned a recent briefing in Paris, organized by French publication Air & Cosmos, that Europe may soon face similar problems because some states are cutting back on staffing for their national civil aviation authorities as part of cost-cutting measures. Expressing unease about regulatory enforcementin southeast Asia, Ky specifically referred to Malaysia and Indonesia. The latter country, for example, has the majority of its air transport operators on the European Commission's black list (the list is officially called "List of air carriers which are banned from operating within the European Union"). One of them, Lion Air, made headlines in 2013 with an order for 234 Airbus A320 family aircraft-kicking off an ambitious fleet expansion that will create more work for Indonesia's safety regulators. Questioning the competence of southeast Asian aviation authorities covered by the European black list, Ky expressed concern for travelers flying with carriers in this region. "How can we educate these authorities?" he asked rhetorically. Adding to the difficulty is EASA's modest presence overseas, with just one representative in China, one in Montreal and one in Washington. Meanwhile, in Europe, cash-strapped states are threatening to reduce an already small number of employees in their civil aviation administrations. When EASA was established back in the 1990s, the theory had been that it would progressively take over regulatory responsibilities from national aviation authorities, but with the understanding that the national officials would continue to play a key role in enforcing safety standards. "Estonia employs only 34 people for air transport oversight," Ky said, by way of example. Yet, the country has eight operators, 100 pilots and three airports, not counting general aviation and air traffic control needs, he added. Ky met with Estonia's transport minister, who reportedly does not see an imminent danger in aviation, as no accident happened in the country over the last 20 years. Meanwhile, his government has pressing development priorities in education and public health, etc. Separately, in pilot training, EASA is moving toward "evidence-based training." The agency, which is headquartered in Cologne, Germany, hopes to implement new rules covering this approach with 12 months. "What counts is not a number of hours; effective training is rather about customization," Ky said. He also would like training service providers to re-create spatial disorientation for flight crew. http://www.ainonline.com/aviation-news/air-transport/2016-04-13/easa-chief-issues-safety-warning-asia- and-europe Back to Top Tail-strike damage found after Corendon 737 diversion Turkish investigators are looking into a serious incident involving a Boeing 737-800 which suffered a tail- strike on departure from Billund. The Corendon Airlines aircraft had been bound for Antalya on 5 March. Although it sustained the tail-strike on take-off, in darkness, the aircraft did not return to the airport but proceeded to follow its course to Turkey. Danish investigation authority HCL says the strike "presumably went unnoticed" by the crew. Some 1h 20min into the flight, in the vicinity of the Polish-Slovakian border, the crew chose to turn north and divert to Warsaw. Initial inspection of the jet - an 11-year old airframe, registered TC-TJP - revealed damage consistent with a tail-strike on departure. HCL has not explained what prompted the diversion to Warsaw. Turkish investigators have started an inquiry supported by the Danish authority. http://flightglobal.com/app/#/articles/424199?context=newsstream Back to Top Operating licence withdrawn from loss-making Senegal Airlines Senegal Airlines' operating certificate expired on 2 April and was not renewed, the national tourism ministry has disclosed. It adds that during four years of operations, the carrier accumulated losses of CFA65 billion ($111 million). As a result, the state has terminated a concession agreement that granted the airline exclusive traffic rights. The government now wants to allow other companies to "temporarily" operate Senegal Airlines' routes. Senegal Airlines did not confirm its grounding when contacted by Flightglobal. Its website, however, does not currently allow bookings to be made. According to the website, the airline began operations in 2011 with two Airbus A320s but "today" uses a single Embraer ERJ-145 on domestic routes from national capital Dakar. http://flightglobal.com/app/#/articles/424160?context=newsstream Back to Top Brazil Launches New International Airshow in Rio From 2017 Organizers of the new International Brazil Air Show (IBAS) this month confirmed plans to hold the inaugural event from March 29 to April 2, 2017, at Rio de Janeiro's Galećo International Airport. The new event, which will include exhibitors from both the commercial and military aviation sectors, will be held in alternate years to Chile's established FIDAE show. Rio de Janeiro's existing LADD defense exhibition will start a day after IBAS, with organizers predicting that this event will increasingly focus on military ground and marine equipment. The IBAS event organizer is private company Sator, which is already involved in staging the Latin American Business Aviation Conference & Exhibition, which is held in Sćo Paulo each August. The Galećo International Airport site offers just over 430,000 sq ft (40,000 sq m) of space for exhibits, including room for around 50 aircraft on outdoor static display. The show has the backing of local airport consortium RIOgalećo, as well as from city officials, the Brazilian civil aviation authority ANAC, aeronautical university ITA, the International Air Transport Association and Brazil's airline association. According to show supporter Francisco Lyra, a partner with Brazilian business aviation services group C>Fly Aviation, IBAS will have a strong focus on the aerospace supply chain. He noted that while Mexico does not produce a single aircraft, it now has more aviation manufacturing jobs than Brazil, largely due to its success as a supplier to the U.S. industry. He wants the Brazilian industry to be less reliant on airframer Embraer as its sole customer. "Brazil should be exporting more, and the exchange rate is currently favorable," Lyra told AIN. According to Brazilian development bank BNDES, the aviation sector currently contributes around $6.4 billion gross ($1.5 billion net) to the economically struggling country's balance of trade and support around 23,000 jobs. Embraer itself has yet to commit to supporting IBAS. Winning this important backing will clearly be an important objective for show organizers. http://www.ainonline.com/aviation-news/aerospace/2016-04-13/brazil-launches-new-international- airshow-rio-2017 Back to Top Airlines improve punctuality, but complaints persist WASHINGTON - Airlines were more punctual in February and they canceled fewer flights, according to Transportation Department statistics released Wednesday. But traveler complaints continue to skyrocket, even as airline performance improves, according to the monthly Air Travel Consumer Report. Flights arrived within 15 minutes of their schedules 83.6% during February, which was up from 72.8% for the same month a year earlier and 81.3% in January, according to the Bureau of Transportation Statistics. Southwest Airlines at 87.8%, displaced Delta Air Lines, at 86.4%, to rank among the best three carriers for on-time arrivals. Hawaiian, Alaska and Southwest had the most on-time arrivals in February, while Delta dropped to fifth in the rankings. But airlines reported a relatively high 10 tarmac delays of more than three hours, which could result in fines and are being investigated. The lengthy delays all occurred at East Coast airports during snow storms on Feb. 5 and Feb. 15. Airlines canceled 1.6% of their flights in February, down from 4.8% a year earlier and 2.6% in January, according to the report. Airlines mishandled bags at a rate of 2.64 reports per 1,000 passengers in February, down from a 3.64 rate a year earlier and a 3.32 rate in January. But complaints poured in. The department received 1,504 complaints about airline service from consumers, a 9.9% increase from the same month a year earlier. The figure was lower than 1,697 complaints in January. Among the complaints, 71 were related to disabilities, up from 57 the same month a year earlier. And seven complaints alleged discrimination for factors such as race, religion or sex, up from five the same month a year earlier. http://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/2016/04/13/airlines-improve-punctuality-but-complaints- persist/82980424/ Back to Top Austrian Airlines to hire 160 pilots, 400 flight attendants Lufthansa subsidiary Austrian Airlines is set to recruit 160 new pilots and 400 flight attendants as it expands bilateral air traffic between Austria to Germany. The Vienna-based airline has been offering four daily flights between Graz and Frankfurt since last week, which was previously served by Lufthansa. Austrian has already added flight traffic between Innsbruck and Salzburg to Frankfurt to its route network. Austrian will also add two more Airbus A320s to its existing fleet of 29 A320-family aircraft. It operates up to 296 weekly flights between Austria and Germany, including up to 119 flights from Austria's federal provinces and 177 from its Vienna hub. This includes flights from Graz, Innsbruck, Klagenfurt, Linz, Salzburg and Vienna to Berlin, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Cologne, Leipzig, Munich and Stuttgart. Austrian Airlines said it has already begun searching for 130 fully trained pilots-so-called "ready entries"-to be deployed in flying Dash, Airbus and Embraer aircraft. It also plans to hire 30 prospective pilots or so- called "ab initios" as of the middle of 2016, and train them in cooperation with Lufthansa Flight Training. At the end of 2015, the Star Alliance carrier employed 950 pilots; the recruitment of new staff will increase this figure to about 1,030 pilots. The carrier is also undergoing a massive training program as its replaces aging Fokker 70/100s with Embraer E195s. "That means every second pilot in our company undergoes a type rating for a different aircraft type," CFO Heinz Lachinger told ATW. "This is because we are adding 17 E195s to our fleet. We expect this transition mode will continue throughout 2017 [when the fleet rollover to E195s will be complete]. This costs a lot of money and is challenging for our organization." Austrian currently operates three E195s; a fourth aircraft will enter service shortly. At the end of 2015, Austrian Airlines employed 2,030 flight attendants, which is expected to climb to about 2,260. http://atwonline.com/labor/austrian-airlines-hire-160-pilots-400-flight-attendants Back to Top Rand Paul Wants to Allow Every Airline Pilot to Carry a Gun "Flight attendants please prepare for takeoff. Lock and load." That could be the future under legislation pushed by Senator Rand Paul this week. The former presidential candidate, who is now facing a potentially tough reelection fight in Kentucky, is pressing Congress to pass legislation allowing all pilots aboard commercial flights in the US and internationally to carry firearms. Paul has long advocated for allowing all US airline pilots to carry firearms to prevent potential hijackings and terrorist plots. His bill, the Arm All Pilots Act of 2015, died in committee last year with no co-sponsors. But now Paul is reviving the legislation as an amendment, hoping for a vote as early as this week. "I want every potential jihadist and terrorist in the world to know that our pilots are armed, and that if you come into the cockpit you will be shot," Paul told CNN of his legislation last year. "And so I think there is a deterrent effect from guns." Thousands of pilots are currently able to carry concealed weapons aboard their flights, under the Department of Homeland Security's Federal Flight Deck Officer program, which was passed after 9/11. The FFDO allows pilots and other flight crew members to take special training courses from federal Air Marshals and then, as deputized members of law enforcement, they may carry concealed weapons aboard their flights, although they have to keep their possession of a weapon in-flight quiet. Paul's bill would reduce restrictions on those eligible for the program and create five new facilities to train them. Currently, only one facility in New Mexico handles training for the FFDO program. Paul's legislation would allow pilots to complete much of their training online, he told supporters in a fundraising email touting the legislation on Wednesday. "As you can imagine - this is a crucial program in a time that our airline pilots are the primary target of hijackings and other terrorist attacks," Paul wrote. Paul pointed out that the program is "highly cost-effective," arguing that it costs the federal government just $17 to deputize pilots under the FFDO, compared to the $3,000 bill for a Federal Air Marshal to fly on a single flight. The FFDO program as currently structured has long been a source of contention. Although George W. Bush expanded the program during his presidency, the Obama administration has sought to cut funding for the existing program, arguing that the Transportation Security Administration's pre-flight screening of passengers and locks on cockpit doors make the program unnecessary. But former Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano and the US Airline Pilots Association have voiced support for the program, as a last line of defense against terrorism. Andrew Danzinger, who flew Obama's plane on election night in 2008 and wrote a series of columns for the New York Daily News before his death last year, was also a strong advocate for arming pilots like himself. "Gun control laws are subject to a great deal of debate, but there shouldn't be any disagreement about the desirability of pilots carrying guns in the cockpit," he wrote last year. "For the record, I'm 100% for it - as are most pilots." Since the program began, there has been one incident in which a pilot accidentally fired a handgun in the cockpit while the aircraft was in flight. In 2008, a US Airways pilot fired his .40-calibre semiautomatic Heckler & Koch USP aboard a US Airways flight from Denver to Charlotte as the plane was descending to land. The bullet pierced the aircraft's skin, but the the plane landed safely and all 124 passengers and five crew were unharmed. The pilot said he was stowing the gun when it went off as he and his co-pilot prepared to land. US Airways fired the pilot, and then later rehired him. The TSA later determined that the design of the agency- mandated holsters could potentially lead to an accidental discharge. https://news.vice.com/article/rand-paul-wants-to-every-airline-pilot-to-carry-a-firearm Back to Top How to take a private jet from LA to SF for only $109 Flying private is a pipe dream for many travelers - a pipe dream that now has a chance of coming true. For those that don't mind a private flight being not-so-private, a charter company is offering travelers the ability to book a seat on "everybody's private jet." JetSuiteX - a subset of JetSuite, a private chartering company - is the "first public charter," where travelers can log on and book a seat just like on an airline's website. The company is offering $109 one-way fares between Los Angeles and San Francisco for the launch on April 19. According to a recent Google flight search, that price is on par with business and first class fares between the cities. In fact, the whole thing is rather like flying first class, if you took away the security lines. JetSuiteX flights will also go between San Jose and Bozeman, Montana (near Yellowstone National Park) and Los Angeles and Las Vegas. The company plans on expanding private booking service to San Diego, Santa Barbara and Phoenix. JetSuite's private jets can still also be chartered - in their entirety - for $8,000 per hour, or about $300 per person per hour for you and 29 of your closest friends (that can afford to pay $300 per hour). http://mashable.com/2016/04/13/jetsuitex-charter/#2Np07BvWzmqH Back to Top Back to Top Official Recommends FAA Plan To Control Space Traffic COLORADO SPRINGS - With the Pentagon looking to remove itself from the role of managing an ever- increasing amount of space traffic, FAA's Office Of Commercial Space Transportation is preparing to take on the mission and recommending the development of a plan to make that happen. The goal, says George Nield, who leads the FAA office, is to manage the traffic without creating a regulatory burden that might force commercial space companies abroad in search of fewer rules. "We think that could be done quite easily by allowing the FAA to issue a mission license or mission authorization based on the finding that the proposed operation was consistent with the international obligations, foreign policy and national security interests of the U.S. and the protection of U.S. government uses in space," Nield said here during the Space Symposium here April 13. Nield says the FAA has spent many months working with the Joint Space Operations Center at the Pentagon and has had preliminary discussions with industry about whether it would be feasible for a civilian agency to process and disseminate safety-related space situational awareness data that could satisfy public and national security interests. "It looks like it would be feasible to do that," Nield said. "It would be our recommendation to develop an implementation plan to start transitioning responsibility for collecting and disseminating space situational awareness from the Air Force to the FAA. We would want to accomplish that transition in a crawl-walk-run manner so that all of the key stakeholders would be comfortable with the approach." He added that could happen in a "surprisingly short period of time" and hinted it would not require large sums of money. Despite that offer, Nield pointed out that real progress on the issue has been minimal. "Even though we've been debating some of these issues for a number of years, certainly since before publication of the National Space Policy in June 2010, we haven't seen a lot of final decisions be made, or concrete actions." Rep. Jim Bridenstine (R-Okla.) on April 12 put forward legislation aimed at reducing the U.S. military's default role in global space traffic management, to allow its space operators to focus on military threats. For the FAA or for some commercial or nonprofit entity to take on the role of space traffic management some additional government action would be required. The current regulations were not designed to handle nontraditional commercial operations in space. But since the FAA's commercial space transportation office has a mission to encourage, facilitate and promote commercial space, the FAA is willing to oversee it "should the White House and Congress decide that would be appropriate," Nield said. http://aviationweek.com/national-space-symposium/official-recommends-faa-plan-control-space-traffic Back to Top PhD Research Request Fellow Helicopter Crewmember, This is a request for you to participate in a research study for my doctoral degree. The purpose is to study the relationship between safety management systems, incidents and accidents, and company performance for small helicopter companies with less than 5 aircraft and in the last 10 years. The survey asks several questions to determine if you can continue. There are series of questions on safety management systems, incidents and accidents, and company performance. To participate, you must be between age 21 to 60, had aircrew experience in a small civil helicopter organization with less than 5 aircraft and in the United States in last 10 years. You may currently be a helicopter student pilot. Please follow the link below and fill out pre-survey questions to confirm your eligibility. The survey does not include any identifiable data about the crewmember or places of employment. It will take about 12 minutes to complete. The survey will remain active through the end of April 2016. https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/5VPCZZ5 Thank you very much for your participation! Principal Investigator Scott Burgess Doctoral student at Northcentral University S.Burgess4793@email.ncu.edu Back to Top Graduate Research Request Research Survey Invitation Are you or have you been a pilot, UAS-pilot or air traffic controller? Do you have an interest in how UAS are integrated into the National Airspace? If so, please consider taking my survey which forms part of a masters research project to see if there are differences in the attitudes of pilots, UAS-pilots, and air traffic controllers when it comes to the integration of UAS into national airspace. The survey will take around 20 minutes to complete and can be saved at any stage. Responses are anonymous. SURVEY LINK: https://coventry.onlinesurveys.ac.uk/unmanned-air-systems-integration Back to Top 1st Risk Culture Survey "1st Risk Culture Survey in Commercial Air Transport Industry was launched on the 1st of April. More information about the concept and the link complete a short questionnaire can be found @ www.riskculture.org The study is part of an academic research and it aims to explore what and how operational risk decisions are made by frontline operators such as pilots, engineers/technicians and their managers. It does not apportion blame to anyone and it aims to identify factors encouraging professionals to accept certain risks. Also there is an opportunity to go into a £1500 bursary draw to attend a course at Cranfield University in United Kingdom. This first survey of its kind will remain open until the end of June 2016 and it will be repeated every year to study emerging risks in the industry." Curt Lewis