Flight Safety Information July 11, 2019 - No. 139 In This Issue American Airlines says Boeing 737 Max grounding cost it $185 million in the second quarter Boeing set to lose biggest planemaker title as deliveries fall 37% Incident: Aeromexico B789 over Atlantic on Jul 10th 2019, loss of communication Incident: Virgin Australia A332 at Melbourne on Jul 10th 2019, fuel leak Accident: Volotea A319 at Bastia on Jul 7th 2019, fumes injure crew Calls from Congress to Change Pilot Training Trump's pick to lead the FAA clears Senate hurdle, despite opposition over whistleblower lawsuit Indian aircraft technician crushed by landing gear Vapes on a Plane: Man Banned for Life for Airplane Vaping NTSB issues preliminary report on fatal plane crash at Addison Airport Northeast ISD starts Aviation Mechanics Program FAA Safety Briefing - JUL/AUG 2019 Virgin Orbit 'drop tests' a rocket from a 747 aircraft 35,000 feet in the sky GRADUATE RESEARCH SURVEY(1) GRADUATE RESEARCH SURVEY(2) Upcoming USC Aviation Safety & Security Program Courses Aircraft Cabin Air Conference Join us in Washington, D.C., on July 15-18 for ALPA's annual...Air Safety Forum American Airlines says Boeing 737 Max grounding cost it $185 million in the second quarter * American says it canceled 7,800 flights in the second quarter, resulting in a $185 million revenue hit. * The airline has had to cancel flights as the Boeing 737 Max planes have been grounded since mid-March. * The reduced flying helped raise a pricing-power metric, boosting American's share price. American Airlines Boeing 737 Max planes sit parked outside of a maintenance hangar at Tulsa International Airport (TUL) in Tulsa, Oklahoma, May 14, 2019. The grounding of Boeing 737 Max jets has forced American Airlines to cancel thousands of flights, costing the Fort Worth, Texas-based airline about $185 million in pretax income in the last quarter, the carrier said Wednesday. Analysts expect the airline to have generated $991 million in pretax income in the three months ended in June, but there is no indication when air safety officials will allow the planes to fly again. American has removed the plane from its schedules through Labor Day but CEO Doug Parker told employees last month that disruptions could last longer than that. The Federal Aviation Administration and other aviation regulators around the world grounded the planes in mid-March after two fatal crashes, one in Ethiopia that month and another in Indonesia in October. The air disasters killed everyone on board both flights, a total of 346 people. American said it canceled around 7,800 flights in the second quarter due to the grounding. While it reduced flying, fuller planes prompted American to raise its forecast for revenue per available seat mile, a key industry gauge of how much airlines make for each seat they fly one mile, to an increase of 3% to 4% from the April to June period of 2018, up from its previous forecast for growth of between 1% and 3%. American shares rose more than 3% after its investor update but later pared gains and were up 1% in midmorning trading. The airline said it would update its estimate of the full-year impact of the Max grounding when it reports quarterly results at the end of July. In April, American said it would cost the airline $350 million in pretax revenue this year. American has 24 of the planes in its fleet of more than 900 aircraft and has another 76 on order. https://www.cnbc.com/2019/07/10/american-airlines-says-boeing-737-max-cost-185- million-in-the-second-quarter.html Back to Top Boeing set to lose biggest planemaker title as deliveries fall 37% (Reuters) - Boeing Co is set to lose the title of being the world's biggest planemaker after reporting a 37% drop in deliveries for the first half of the year due to the prolonged grounding of its best-selling MAX jets. Boeing deliveries lagged those of Airbus SE, which on Tuesday said it handed over 389 planes in the same period, up 28% from a year earlier. Reuters had reported Airbus delivery numbers on Friday, citing sources. The numbers indicate that Boeing's full-year deliveries are likely to fall behind its European rival for the first time in eight years. A new problem identified with the grounded MAX jets last month has delayed the aircraft's entry into service until at least the end of September, disrupting schedules for airline operators and possibly adding to costs for Boeing. To cope with the fallout after the grounding, Boeing has slowed production to 42 MAX jets per month from 52 earlier, causing the planemaker to take a $1 billion charge in the first quarter. J.P. Morgan analyst Seth Seifman has speculated that the new delay could prompt Boeing to consider another production cut and book an additional charge in the second quarter, hurting 737 margins further. Deliveries of the MAX aircraft were stopped in March after an Ethiopian Airlines crash killed all 157 people on board. Since then, Boeing has not reported any new order for the MAX planes. Several analysts have lowered their full year 2019 delivery estimates for the MAX, and many do not expect the aircraft to be handed over to customers before December. Last month, Jefferies analyst Sheila Kahyaoglu said she expected zero MAX deliveries in the second and the third quarters of 2019, with full-year MAX deliveries around 236. Boeing delivered a total of 580 737s in 2018. The American planemaker's net orders for the first six months were in the negative territory, with a total of minus 119 net orders, lagging Airbus which won 88 net orders between January and June. A few airlines have shown confidence in the MAX since the fatal crash, with British Airways-owner IAG last month signing a letter of intent to order 200 versions of the aircraft. https://www.yahoo.com/news/1-boeing-deliveries-fall-37-152959553.html Back to Top Incident: Aeromexico B789 over Atlantic on Jul 10th 2019, loss of communication An Aeromexico Boeing 787-9, registration N183AM performing flight AM-21 from Mexico City (Mexico) to Madrid,SP (Spain), was enroute at FL390 over the Atlantic Ocean about 360nm north of the Azores Islands (Portugal) when the crew set the transponder code for loss of communication. The aircraft continued on their Atlantic track, upon reaching Spanish Airspace about 180nm west of La Coruna,SP (Spain) and exiting Oceanic Airspace the crew was able to restore communication and continued for a safe landing in Madrid about 3 hours after the loss of communication. The occurrence aircraft is still on the ground in Madrid about 6 hours after landing, scheduled to depart for the return flight AM-22 about 6:15 hours after landing. http://avherald.com/h?article=4ca38831&opt=0 Back to Top Incident: Virgin Australia A332 at Melbourne on Jul 10th 2019, fuel leak A Virgin Australia Airbus A330-200, registration VH-XFG performing flight VA-69 from Melbourne,VI (Australia) to Hong Kong (China), was climbing out of Melbourne's runway 34 when white vapour was seen emanating from the outboard side of the right hand engine (Trent 772). The aircraft continued the climb, levelled off at FL300 and returned to Melbourne due to a fuel leak. The aircraft landed safely on runway 34 about 65 minutes after departure. The occurrence aircraft is still on the ground about 19 hours later. The airline reported an engineering fault prompted the crew to return to Melbourne. The aircraft departing Melbourne (Photo: Victor Pody): http://avherald.com/h?article=4ca3869b&opt=0 Back to Top Accident: Volotea A319 at Bastia on Jul 7th 2019, fumes injure crew A Volotea Airbus A319-100, registration EC-MTM performing flight V7-2402 from Bordeaux to Bastia (France), completed a seemingly uneventful flight with a safe landing in Bastia, taxied to the apron, the passengers disembarked. The crew began to prepare the aircraft for the next sector when a strange odour and smoke developed on board causing a number of crew to suffer from nausea, dizziness, skin itching and vomitting. All 6 crew were taken to a hospital. The airline reported they are conducting interviews with passengers to see whether any of them had been affected, too. Emergency services said they suspect fumes, possibly originating from the air conditioning system, as cause of the intoxications. The occurrence aircraft remained on the ground in Bastia for 19 hours, then ferried to Verona (Italy) flying at maximum FL200, remained on the ground in Verona for another 18.5 hours and returned to service in the morning of Jul 9th 2019. http://avherald.com/h?article=4ca38514&opt=0 Back to Top Back to Top Calls from Congress to Change Pilot Training Republicans in Congress are calling for the FAA to increase training requirements for pilots, especially foreign pilots to reflect a new reality first exposed by NBC Bay Area's Investigative Unit. Senior Investigative Reporter Stephen Stock reports. Congressional leaders want to know "are pilots too reliant on automation in the cockpit?" A series of NBC Bay Area investigative reports found that many times pilots over-rely on automation, which can put safety in jeopardy because they let down their guard and don't practice manual, hand-flying skills. NBC Bay Area's investigation, which followed the fatal crash of Asiana Flight 214 while on approach to land at San Francisco International Airport, also found that many times pilots from foreign countries who travel to the US to train and learn to fly don't get the hands-on experience that American-born pilots get and those pilots are even more reliant on automation in the cockpit. Now, in 2019, Republicans in Congress are calling for the FAA to increase training requirements for pilots, especially foreign pilots, to reflect this new reality. Congressional leaders also want the FAA to push the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) to also push for stricter training to emphasize manual flying skills and warn about over-reliance on automation in the cockpit. In 2013, NBC Bay Area spent months traveling to pilot schools, flying with research scientists in the Midwest and sitting with commercial pilots in flight simulators. The investigation discovered that what experts say are too many pilots becoming over- reliant on computer automation, and some aren't actually learning how to take off and land on their own using manual skills. Wednesday, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Sam Graves sent a letter to Acting FAA Administrator Daniel Elwell asking that the agency consider changing standards for training to emphasize how over- reliance on automated systems can lead to fatal crashes and to push for similar changes in other nation's regulatory bodies. According to Wednesday's letter, "Aircraft accidents are rarely the result of just one factor.... Therefore, we write to encourage that those participating in the ICAO pilot licensing review meetings this week on behalf of the United States advocate to place particular emphasis on changes to airline pilot training requirements in the age of highly-automated aircraft systems. A well-trained pilot will always be an aircraft's most essential safety feature. We believe that global regulators must focus on what training and experience pilots need to be able to recognize when a highly-automated aircraft is not operating as expected, how to respond in such situations, and how to operate the aircraft when automated systems fail. Emphasis should be on competency-based training rather than simply amassing unrelated flight hours." Graves in the letter to Elwell also urged the FAA to push the international community to place particular emphasis on changing pilot training requirements, and focus on making sure all pilots can manually fly their airplanes. After Asiana's Flight 214 crashed at SFO, the Investigative Unit in 2013 discovered this over-reliance on computers in the cockpit was at the root of the accident. NBC Bay Area's findings were confirmed about a year later by Federal National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) investigators and the formal conclusion released publicly. The NTSB found the pilots on Asiana 214 set the altitude wrong for the automatic pilot, that they mistakenly thought the auto throttle would keep them from crashing and that those mistaken assumptions allowed the computer to essentially fly the plane into the ground. According to the NTSB investigative reports, all this took place despite the pilots looking out the window and seeing what was happening. But the pilots did not take over actually flying the plane until it was too late. https://www.nbcbayarea.com/investigations/Calls-from-Congress-to-Change-Pilot- Training-512561931.html Back to Top Trump's pick to lead the FAA clears Senate hurdle, despite opposition over whistleblower lawsuit * A Senate committee approved Trump's pick to lead the FAA in a 14-12 vote. * Several senators voted against former Delta executive Stephen Dickson, citing a whistleblower lawsuit. * The FAA has been without a permanent head since early 2018. Stephen Dickson, administrator of Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) nominee for U.S. President Donald Trump, listens during a Senate Commerce, Science & Transportation confirmation hearing in Washington D.C., May 15, 2019. President Donald Trump's nominee to lead the Federal Aviation Administration cleared a hurdle in the Senate on Wednesday, despite objections from Democratic lawmakers over the appointment of a former Delta Air Lines executive who's named in a pilot's whistleblower lawsuit. The Senate Commerce Committee voted 14-12 to approve the nomination of Stephen Dickson, a former Delta senior vice president of flight operations, clearing the way for a vote in the full Senate. If approved, Dickson will inherit an FAA in crisis. The agency in charge of air safety is facing several investigations about how it approved Boeing's 737 Max aircraft, two of which were involved in fatal crashes within five months of one another, killing a total of 346 people. The spotlight on the FAA over safety issues is a departure for an agency that has long taken the lead on aviation safety. Investigators in the two crashes have implicated an automatic anti-stall system on the planes, which some pilots said they did not know about until after the first crash, a Lion Air flight in Indonesia in October. The planes have been grounded worldwide since mid-March. Boeing has developed a software fix for the planes but regulators have not said when they will allow the planes to fly again. The FAA was the last major aviation authority to ground the planes in March but it is aiming to coordinate with foreign counterparts to lift the grounding. Some Democratic lawmakers said they voted against Dickson because of a lawsuit brought by a Delta pilot, Karlene Petitt, which alleged the airline retaliated against her by putting her on leave with pay after she reported safety concerns to Dickson and another executive. Delta has denied the allegations. The FAA hasn't had a permanent head since Michael Huerta stepped down in January 2018. Daniel Elwell currently serves as the acting chief of the agency. https://www.cnbc.com/2019/07/10/trumps-pick-to-lead-the-faa-clears-senate- hurdle.html Back to Top Indian aircraft technician crushed by landing gear A trainee technician in India was crushed to death on Wednesday by the landing gear flaps on an aircraft while conducting maintenance work, airline SpiceJet said. AFP Photo KOLKATA: A trainee technician in India was crushed to death on Wednesday by the landing gear flaps on an aircraft while conducting maintenance work, airline SpiceJet said. "Inadvertently, the main landing gear hydraulic door closed and he got stuck in between the hydraulic door flaps," SpiceJet said after the incident at Kolkata airport in eastern India. "The hydraulic doors were broken to rescue (Rohit) Pandey but he was declared dead," the airline said. "The entire SpiceJet family stands together in grief in this unfortunate incident." Airport director Kaushik Bhattacharya said that Pandey, 26, was "sucked into the lower end of the aircraft due to hydraulic pressure. His body had to be cut out of it." The aircraft was a Canadian Bombardier Q400. -- AFP https://www.nst.com.my/world/2019/07/503181/indian-aircraft-technician-crushed- landing-gear Back to Top Vapes on a Plane: Man Banned for Life for Airplane Vaping Not the Mile High Club You Want to Be a Part Of. Bad news if you're planning to sneak a quick puff to get through the day on your marathon flight to Amsterdam - vaping in an airline lavatory can set off the plane's smoke detectors. A Spirit Airlines passenger just found out the hard way. According to the New Orleans police report, the Florida man had been caught trying to vape in the cabin. CBS Miami reported that the flight attendant on Flight NK 985 said "she saw him take a drag from an e-cigarette and exhale into a bag while he was sitting in his seat." When the flight attendant shut him down (airplane vaping is generally against the rules on major carriers), he snuck off to grab a puff in the plane's bathroom, triggering the smoke detector. The incident occurred on a flight traveling from Detroit, MI to New Orleans, LA. Generally speaking, e-cigarettes are unlikely to trigger a traditional smoke alarm, but in a small, tightly enclosed space like an airplane lavatory, vapor can set off the device - especially if the vapor is blown directly into the smoke detector. The Spirit Airlines pilot had to descend to 35,000 feet to deactivate the smoke alarm. When the plane landed in New Orleans, the police were waiting for him. The passenger reportedly appeared to be intoxicated, and smelled stringly of alcohol. While the man denied he had engaged in airplane vaping in the plane's bathroom, he also stated to police that he was not aware that e-cigarette use was prohibited on planes. The passenger was not arrested by the New Orleans deputy, however Spirit Airlines did ban the man from flying on the airline for life. If you want to know more about airport and airplane vaping, check out this great article from Soupwire clears up a lot of the confusion - from where you can vape at the airport, which airports are e-cigarette-friendly, to whether of not it's safe to bring your vape onboard a flight. https://soupwire.com/vapes-on-a-plane-man-banned-for-life-for-airplane-vaping/ Back to Top NTSB issues preliminary report on fatal plane crash at Addison Airport The National Transportation Safety Board has issued a preliminary report on the June 30 plane crash at Addison Airport that killed all 10 people on board, but officials are still working to determine what caused the tragedy. Most of the details in the report have previously been publicized. It could take 18 months for the full report to be issued on what led the twin-engine Beech BE-300 to hit a hangar shortly after takeoff. The report provided further detail about evidence that the crew noted a problem. Eight seconds before the cockpit voice recorder cut off, the audio captured a comment about the left engine, the report said. The crew included pilots Howard Cassady and Matthew Palmer. Also killed were passengers Brian and Ornella Ellard; their children Alice Maritato and Dylan Maritato; Steve and Gina Thelen; and John and Mary Titus. The plane had been headed to St. Petersburg, Fla. https://www.dallasnews.com/news/addison/2019/07/10/ntsb-issues-preliminary-report- fatal-plane-crash-addison-airport Back to Top Northeast ISD starts Aviation Mechanics Program At Northeast ISD, students now have a unique opportunity to prepare for the future: NEISD has partnered with Hallmark University to offer college-level courses in the Aviation Mechanics Program - designed to help students pursue career paths in aerospace manufacturing and maintenance. According to information from NEISD, the program, open to all NEISD juniors and seniors, allows students to earn college credits - at no cost - toward a double associate's degree in Power Plant (Aircraft Engines) and Air Frame (Aircraft Structures), and complete their freshman year in an Aviation Technician Degree Program. Students interested in participating in the program can select the Hallmark course on their course card, and Hallmark University will contact students to complete registration, All interested students will complete a safety test and skills test. Recently, several NEISD students participating in the burgeoning program earned a Level 1 certificate of completion in the Aviation Mechanics Program. Angel Gonzalez of MacArthur High School and Jirina Bredberg of Reagan High School earned special recognition for making the Dean's List, and Bredberg received a trophy for earning the highest GPA. Hallmark University states in its literature that the program - called the Aerospace College Headstart Institute, or Aero CHI - currently partners with both NEISD and San Antonio ISD, with 22 seats available for the 2019-20 school year for NEISD students and 25 seats available for SAISD students. According to Hallmark University, students in the program can earn 31 semester credit hours - half of an AAS degree - saving students over $11,000 in tuition. Hallmark University states it produces more FAA licensed graduates than any other program in Texas, and as of 2016, over 90 percent of its graduates were working in the field. According to information from the San Antonio Economic Development Foundation, 13,000 San Antonio employees work in the aerospace industry making an average amount of $60,000. This rapidly growing field is an exciting career choice for any up- and-coming NEISD junior or senior. https://www.mysanantonio.com/real-estate/sellingsa/article/Aviation-Mechanics- Program-14082438.php Back to Top Back to Top Virgin Orbit 'drop tests' a rocket from a 747 aircraft 35,000 feet in the sky Virgin wants to launch a rocket off a 747 New York (CNN Business)People near the Mojave Desert may have caught a strange sight Wednesday morning: A 70-foot rocket plummeting from the sky. It's was part of a pre-planned test carried out by Virgin Orbit, the space startup backed by British entrepreneur Richard Branson. The company wants to fire satellites into orbit using rockets that launch mid-air from under the wing of a plane. Wednesday's spectacle, during which a Virgin Orbit LauncherOne rocket was intentionally left to freefall back to the ground for a "drop test," was the final step toward reaching that goal. LauncherOne took off from a Mojave runway nestled beneath the wing of a modified Boeing 747 airplane, nicknamed Cosmic Girl. Once the plane reached about 35,000 feet, the typical cruising altitude for commercial aircraft, the rocket was released. It then slammed to the ground at a test range at Edward's Air Force Base. During operational missions, the LauncherOne rocket would fire up its engine shortly after detaching from Cosmic Girl's wing and continue flying into orbit in order to drop off satellites for Virgin Orbit's customers. But for the drop test, a dummy rocket was used to simulate the entire commercial flight experience - just without the part where the rocket zooms off into orbit. Virgin Orbit said in a blog post that it would be "monitoring and rehearsing a million things" during the drop test - but it was primarily intended to "ensure the rocket and aircraft separate cleanly" and allow engineers to "observe how the rocket behaves" during freefall. It was the last planned test flight before Virgin Galactic will attempt an orbital mission. CEO Dan Hart told CNN Business on Wednesday after the flight that initial data reports about the test "were absolutely perfect." "We are really locked in, starting this afternoon, on focusing on our first orbital rocket and getting the aircraft and the equipment ready," Hart said. The big business of smallsats The company says its LauncherOne rocket will be able to thrust 500 kilograms, or 1,100 pounds, into orbit - enough lift capacity for a batch of small satellites, or smallsats. As satellite technology has grown cheaper, the demand for less expensive and more frequent rocket launches has swelled. Numerous startups are trying to answer that demand by building cheap, lightweight rockets that will be dedicated to launching miniature satellites. Virgin Orbit is set to start competing with the likes of US-based startup Rocket Lab, which is the only dedicated smallsat launch company that's currently operational. Virgin Orbit already has customers lined up. The company stands apart from its rivals by opting for an air-launched rocket. The vast majority of launch vehicles take off vertically from a ground-based pad. Flying a rocket to a high altitude before firing its engine can improve the vehicle's efficiency. It doesn't have to waste fuel cutting through the thickest parts of the atmosphere. But there's also drawbacks. Since it lights up mid-air, engineers can't make last-minute adjustments to the rocket if something goes wrong. And there's the added risk of strapping the large rocket, full of combustible propellants, onto an aircraft with a human pilot. (Kelly Latimer, a retired lieutenant colonel in the US Air Force, pilots Cosmic Girl.) Virgin Orbit was spun off from Branson's other space venture, Virgin Galactic, in 2017. Galactic is focused on human spaceflight and plans to begin flying tourists on short trips to the upper atmosphere in the second half of next year. Galactic announced a merger agreement on Tuesday that will bring the company to the stock market, becoming the first space tourism venture to do so. Virgin Orbit was not part of that deal. But Hart, the CEO, told CNN Business that the company is looking for an influx of cash. He said his team has been "involved in some investor discussions that we started earlier this year." https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/10/tech/virgin-orbit-drop-test/index.html Back to Top GRADUATE RESEARCH SURVEY(1) I am a retired pilot and I am finishing my PhD in business. My dissertation is on the different leadership styles pilots have and how they influence safety. I do feel there is a massive lack of research in aviation on how important the different leadership styles are and their influence on safety. Although multiple industries are studying the outcomes of different leadership styles in different aspects of business, aviation is not. Therefore, I feel my research will truly help the industry. Any assistance here would be a huge contribution to aviation. Below is the link to my research survey for your review: https://ncu.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_9BomOpXQJw5tKL3 Regards, Carlos Guillem 469-688-3174 CarlosGuillem@yahoo.com C.Guillem6197@0365.ncu.edu Back to Top GRADUATE RESEARCH SURVEY(2) Dear Pilots, My name is Lakshmi Vempati. I am a doctoral candidate in the Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University PhD in Aviation program, and I am working on my dissertation under the guidance of Dr. Scott Winter. We are interested in understanding pilot perspectives for operating in unmanned aircraft system (UAS) integrated airspace and airports. You can help this research by participating in this electronic questionnaire. The study is anticipated to take approximately 15 minutes to complete. In order to participate, you must be 18 years of age, and a current civilian pilot with any rating, and experience level who has flown within the last six months. Participants will have an opportunity to participate in the drawing to win a DJI Tello Quadcopter Drone. If you have any questions regarding the study, or the questionnaire in particular, please contact the researcher, Lakshmi Vempati, at vempatil@my.erau.edu or the dissertation committee chair, Dr. Scott Winter, at winte25e@erau.edu. Please find the electronic questionnaire at: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/LVPilotSurvey Please feel free to forward the link to other pilots who you think might be interested in participating. Sincerely, Lakshmi Vempati, Doctoral Candidate ERAU PhD in Aviation Back to Top Photo Credit: Glen Grossman, Los Angeles Police Department Air Support Division Upcoming USC Aviation Safety & Security Program Courses Safety Management for Aviation Maintenance Safety principles and practices needed to manage the problems associated with aircraft maintenance operations. August 5-9, 2019 4.5 Days Tuition: $2575 Data for Safety Management Collection and analysis of flight data to contribute to safety management and improve safety performance. August 5-9, 2019 4.5 Days Tuition: $2575 SeMS Aviation Security Management Systems Applying SMS fundamentals to aviation security and cyber security. August 12-16, 2019 4.5 Days Tuition: $2575 Software Safety Identifying, understanding, and preventing software hazards and their root causes, with lessons on methods to create and document a software safety case. August 12-15, 2019 4 Days Tuition: $2125 Aviation Law & Dispute Resolution Legal processes, trends, and practices affecting aviation safety, accident investigation, and aviation regulation. This is the successor to the previous Legal Aspects of Aviation Safety & Role of the Technical Witness in Litigation courses. August 19-22, 2019 4 Days Tuition: $2125 Safety Management Systems for Ground Operation Safety Practices and methodologies for the identification and mitigation of hazards in all phases of airport ground operations. August 19-21, 2019 2.5 Days Tuition: $1300 Accident/Incident Response Preparedness Planning for the complex, challenging, and stressful investigation, legal, family response, and communcations situations after an accident. August 26-29, 2019 4 Days Tuition: $2125 Human Factors in Aviation Safety Theoretical and practical knowledge of Human Factors in aviation operations. August 26-30, 2019 4.5 Days Tuition: $2575 Earn Credit for FlightSafety Master Technician- Management Program Students taking the following USC courses will earn elective credits towards FlightSafety International's Master Technician-Management Program * Human Factors in Aviation Maintenance * Human Factors in Aviation Safety * Gas Turbine Accident Investigation * Helicopter Accident Investigation * Safety Management for Aviation Maintenance * Safety Management for Ground Operations Safety * Accident/Incident Response Preparedness Earn Points Toward NBAA Certified Aviation Manager Program Students taking the following USC courses will earn two points toward completing the application for the National Business Aviation Certified Aviation Manager Exam. * Aviation Safety Management Systems * Accident/Incident Response Preparedness * Human Factors in Aviation Safety * Aircraft Accident Investigation * SeMS Aviation Security Management Systems For further details, please visit our website or use the contact information below. Email: aviation@usc.edu Telephone: +1 (310) 342-1345 Back to Top Back to Top Join us in Washington, D.C., on July 15-18 for ALPA's annual Air Safety Forum Curt Lewis