Flight Safety Information AUGUST 27, 2019 - No. 172 In This Issue Boeing 737 MAX Comeback Set For October, FAA To Conduct Certification Flight Incident: United B752 at Keflavik on Aug 26th 2019, engine problem Incident: Helvetic E190 at Milan on Aug 24th 2019, smoke in cabin Incident: Jet2.com B752 near Porto on Aug 26th 2019, pilot incapacitated Lockheed C-130 Hercules crash-lands at Santa Barbara Airport, California, Airbus A330-343 - Fire on the ground (China) Cessna 560XL Citation Excel - wire strike - fire (India) TSA considered ending special pilot security program Person at Munich airport detained after bypassing security Cathay investigates after crew oxygen bottles were found empty Argus Sees Ops Growth after Mixed First Half NOAA Orders New Aircraft Russia's Aeroflot Denies Having Biggest Pilot Gender Gap Pilot praised for 1989 Iowa crash landing dies in Seattle Russia's Rostec unit ready for out-of-court deal with Boeing on 737 MAX order The Air Force's secret space plane sets a new record: 718 days in orbit Aircraft Crash Survivability Course September 2019 International Conference on Unruly Airline Passenger Behaviour Boeing 737 MAX Comeback Set For October, FAA To Conduct Certification Flight US Grounds Boeing 737 Max 8 And 9 Jets After Fatal Ethiopian Airlines Crash The stage is looking set for the comeback of the grounded Boeing 737 Max jets from the hangars after being grounded for more than 5 months over safety issues from two fatal crashes. According to reports, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) may conduct a certification flight for Boeing Co.'s 737 Max in October. Around 600 planes have been left mothballed by the grounding order. This is a key milestone before the grounded jetliner gets back to the skies, according to insiders quoted in the Bloomberg report. A Boeing statement said, "while the assumption reflects Boeing's best estimate at this time, the actual timing of return to service will be determined by the FAA and other global aviation regulatory authorities." Boeing, on its part, is testing changes to the flight-control software architecture of the grounded jet. FAA focus on flight safety The FAA is making sure that that the revamped 737 Max systems comply with all safety requirements. There is no timeline for returning the plane to service, according to FAA. A review by the FAA's Flight Standardization Board and new guidelines for pilot training will also involve the FAA procedures. The FAA said it will be inviting "a cross-section of line pilots from carriers that operate the aircraft around the world" to participate in simulator testing "as part of the overall testing and validating of new procedures on the Boeing 737 MAX." New MCAS procedures to be tested The Boeing news also said the FAA plan for simulator sessions will involve testing of the new procedures of Boeing's updated Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System (MCAS) flight control software. The original version was under fire for being an alleged causative factor in the two fatal MAX crashes in Indonesia and Ethiopia that pushed the jets' nose down. Since a computer glitch was discovered, pilots will get to test separate procedures on handling un-commanded nose-down movements outside of MCAS. Dennis Tajer, the spokesman for the Allied Pilots Association union said: "anything that gets the average line pilot in to test that system - not the top test pilot at Boeing but an average 737 pilot - that's realistic analysis and we're encouraged to hear that." Boeing's new production plan Meanwhile, Boeing has unveiled an aggressive production plan for the 737 Max jets reflecting the assumption that "the 737 MAX return to the service plan." Assuming that FAA clearance will come in October, Boeing aims to ramp up production numbers soon. The new volumes seek to bypass the current 42 planes per month to the pre-crash level of 52 jets by February 2020 and 57 jets per month by next summer. Meanwhile, the take-off signals for Max jets have lifted the Boeing stock as well. Boeing shares jumped nearly 8 percent last week. Boeing was the only positive Dow Jones stock that withstood the pressures of panic selling last Friday in the context of the escalated of U.S.-China trade war. https://www.ibtimes.com/boeing-737-max-comeback-set-october-faa-conduct-certification-flight-2818236 Back to Top Incident: United B752 at Keflavik on Aug 26th 2019, engine problem A United Boeing 757-200, registration N17128 performing flight UA-139 from Keflavik (Iceland) to Newark,NJ (USA) with 178 people on board, was climbing out of Keflavik when the crew stopped the climb at FL260 reporting a problem with one of the engines. The aircraft landed safely back on Keflavik's runway 19 about one hour after departure. The flight was cancelled. The occurrence aircraft is still on the ground in Keflavik about 9 hours after landing back. http://avherald.com/h?article=4cc0a9e0&opt=0 Back to Top Incident: Helvetic E190 at Milan on Aug 24th 2019, smoke in cabin A Helvetic Embraer ERJ-190 on behalf of Swiss, registration HB-JVN performing flight LX-1629 from Milan Malpensa (Italy) to Zurich (Switzerland), was climbing out of Malpensa's runway 35R when the crew stopped the climb at about FL080 reporting smoke in the cabin. The aircraft returned to Malpensa for a safe landing on runway 35L about 12 minutes after departure. The aircraft remained on the ground for about 4.5 hours, then positioned to Zurich as flight 2L-9529 and remained on the ground in Zurich for another 39 hours before returning to service. http://avherald.com/h?article=4cc0af01&opt=0 Back to Top Back to Top Incident: Jet2.com B752 near Porto on Aug 26th 2019, pilot incapacitated A Jet2.com Boeing 757-200, registration G-LSAC performing flight LS-765 from Manchester,EN (UK) to Funchal (Portugal), was enroute at FL360 about 150nm north of Porto (Portugal) when one of the two pilots felt unwell and became incapacitated prompting the other pilot to divert the aircraft to Porto for a safe landing on runway 17 about 26 minutes later. Passengers reported a company pilot travelling as passenger offered to assist the pilot flying and went to the cockpit, where he stayed until the ill pilot with an oxygen mask was taken out of the cockpit on a wheelchair. The airline reported one of the pilots felt unwell prompting the diversion to Porto as a precaution. A replacement crew was flown to Porto and continued the flight to Funchal. The occurrence aircraft departed Porto after about 10:15 hours on the ground and reached Funchal with a delay of 11.5 hours. http://avherald.com/h?article=4cc0a7a0&opt=0 Back to Top Lockheed C-130 Hercules crash-lands at Santa Barbara Airport, California, USA Status: Preliminary Date: Sunday 25 August 2019 Time: 22:20 Type: Lockheed C-130A Hercules Operator: International Air Response Registration: N119TG C/n / msn: 3227 First flight: 1959 Crew: Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: Passengers: Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: Total: Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 7 Aircraft damage: Substantial Location: Santa Barbara Airport, CA (SBA) ( United States of America) Phase: Landing (LDG) Nature: Unknown Departure airport: Santa Maria Public Airport, CA (SMX/KSMX), United States of America Destination airport: Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport, AZ (AZA/KIWA), United States of America Narrative: A private Lockheed C-130A, N119TG, was substantially damaged when it suffered a runway excursion after landing at Santa Barbara Municipal Airport (KSBA/SBA), California. The seven people onboard were not injured. The aircraft departed from Santa Maria with the planned destination being Phoenix Gateway Airport. Shortly after the takeoff, the crew reported hydraulic problems and diverted to Santa Barbara Municipal Airport. https://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=20190825-0 Back to Top Airbus A330-343 - Fire on the ground (China) Date: 27-AUG-2019 Time: 17:00 LT Type: Airbus A330-343 Owner/operator: Air China Registration: B-5958 C/n / msn: 1587 Fatalities: Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 0 Other fatalities: 0 Aircraft damage: Written off (damaged beyond repair) Location: Beijing Capital Airport (PEK/ZBAA) - China Phase: Standing Nature: International Scheduled Passenger Departure airport: Destination airport: Narrative: The plane caught fire on tarmac under unknown reason. Cargo holder fire. According airport staff: A statement confirming a storage unit in the aircraft was producing a black smoke. "There were no passengers on board." "We have activated certain protocols to handle the situation. The airport is now running on normal schedule." https://aviation-safety.net/wikibase/228545 Back to Top Cessna 560XL Citation Excel - wire strike - fire (India) Date: 27-AUG-2019 Time: Type: Cessna 560XL Citation Excel Owner/operator: Air Charter Services Registration: VT-AVV C/n / msn: 560-5259 Fatalities: Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 6 Other fatalities: 0 Aircraft damage: Written off (damaged beyond repair) Location: Dhanipur Airstrip (VIAH) - India Phase: Landing Nature: Unknown Departure airport: Destination airport: Aligarh Airport (VIAH) Narrative: A Cessna 560XL Citation Excel corporate jet crashed while on final approach to Dhanipur Airstrip, India. The aircraft reportedly contacted high tension wires and came down short of the runway. A fire erupted, but all six occupants evacuated safely with no injuries. https://aviation-safety.net/wikibase/228542 Back to Top TSA considered ending special pilot security program Washington (CNN)The Transportation Security Administration recently considered shutting down its program that lets pilots and flight attendants pass through airport security checkpoints without the same type of physical screening as passengers, according to two sources. The agency tells CNN it is now conducting an audit of the program to review potential insider threats. Instead of ending the program, TSA abruptly made changes to the program on Saturday that include additional requirements to qualify for the special flight crew screening. Jim Gregory, an acting assistant administrator at TSA, said the changes were not the result of a specific threat. "There's been a renewed focus on insider threats," Gregory told CNN. "There hasn't been a particular threat that inspired this action." One source said changes to the program "clearly indicate the agency must have found vulnerabilities." TSA did not share with CNN any vulnerabilities its ongoing audit may have uncovered and it's possible the audit could lead to further changes to the program. The Known Crewmember Program, which was developed in 2011, typically allows many pilots and flight attendants to bypass the standard airport security lanes. Crewmembers present an identification card which is then checked against airline employee databases. Pilots and flight attendants "will be required to wear uniforms" to qualify, TSA announced. Crewmembers who may not normally be in uniform include pilots who are flying as passengers to another airport for their next work assignment. After initially announcing that requirement would take effect on Wednesday, Gregory told CNN the implementation date is now a "moving target." He said the agency made the change after communicating with airlines on Monday. The message on the program's website also suggested TSA will step up its use of random security measures to further screen pilots and flight attendants. "Random screening is a normal TSA screening policy. It is incorporated for your protection and to ensure the integrity of the system," the message reads. The program changes came after CNN asked the agency on Friday about the audit and possible vulnerabilities. Abandoning the program would have been an extraordinary move and the agency could have faced fierce backlash from the airline industry, which relies on an implicit level of trust that pilots and flight attendants are not a threat to passengers. "Imagine our pilots having to get in line with passengers to go through security, that would severely disrupt our flight and flight crew schedules," said one source familiar with the conversations. Gregory described the ongoing audit as routine. But the abrupt timeframe for changes to the program sparked questions within the aviation industry, and caught flight attendant unions and some airlines off guard. "It is highly unusual that a change would be communicated on a Saturday without advance notice and a relatively tight implementation time of a few days. Please note that this change could be in response to a credible threat," the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA wrote in a notification to its members. "Until we know more, AFA-CWA encourages all crewmembers to help spread the word about the new procedures and comply accordingly," the union wrote. The union said TSA's sudden change in the program meant they were bombarded with questions from its members about what security concerns or perceived vulnerabilities may have sparked the changes but the union had no answers because the agency never provided any advanced notice, which is what's usually done. As of Monday, the union and some airlines told CNN they still had several questions they needed answered by TSA. TSA Administrator David Pekoske, who is currently also serving as the acting second-highest ranking official at the Department of Homeland Security, said last year he believes the program and work of pilots and flight attendants helps ensure "the security of air travel." "I'm a huge supporter of the Known Crewmember Program and think it's one of our most effective risk-based initiatives," Pekoske said in a 2018 statement. The program involves pilots at 75 airlines that carry both passengers and cargo, according to its website. Flight attendants at some airlines are also included. Many details about the program are not public because of security considerations. The program website, however, says it "leverages current technology" by tying "airline employee databases together" to "verify the identity and employment status of crewmembers." https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/26/politics/tsa-considered-ending-special-pilot-security-program/index.html Back to Top Person at Munich airport detained after bypassing security People wait outside the Munich Airport in Munich, Germany, Tuesday, Aug. 27, 2019, after some of its terminals were closed because a person has likely entered the "clean area" through an emergency exit door. The international airport tweeted Tuesday morning that terminal 2 and areas B and C of terminal 1 had been closed for police operations. (Matthias Schrader/Associated Press) BERLIN - Police at Munich airport detained a passenger who left a terminal via an emergency exit instead of going through passport control, prompting a temporary partial shutdown of one of Germany's busiest airports Tuesday. Up to 5,000 passengers were affected by the disruption as federal police searched for the unnamed passenger, Munich Airport spokesman Robert Wilhelm said. Terminal 1 and parts of Terminal 2 were closed during the police operation. They were re-opened a few hours later. Several flights were delayed and the affected passengers, who had already been through security checks for their departing flights, had to go through the process again, Wilhelm said. Munich airport is one of Germany's busiest aviation hubs and the shutdown came during peak summer travel season. Wilhelm said the passenger arrived on a flight from outside the European Union and was due to transfer at Munich airport. Before boarding the connecting flight the passenger had to go through security controls, but instead unlocked an emergency door and left through it despite setting off an alarm. It was not immediately clear from which country the person had arrived. Last summer, some 330 flights were canceled in Munich when a woman entered a "clean area" of the airport without going through security checks, German news agency dpa reported. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/munich-airport-closes-some-terminals-for-police-operation/2019/08/27/7c08c94c-c89d-11e9-9615-8f1a32962e04_story.html Back to Top Cathay investigates after crew oxygen bottles were found empty BEIJING, Aug 27 (Reuters) - Hong Kong's Cathay Pacific Airways on Tuesday said it had launched an investigation after a dozen oxygen bottles used by cabin crew in emergencies were found empty, or partially empty, on two of its aircraft. The discovery was made on the ground in routine inspections before a departure from Toronto, the carrier said, adding that of the 22 bottles carried onboard each jet, five were affected on one aircraft and eight on the other. "The portable oxygen bottles are for operational cabin crew use and permit crew to move around the cabin in the unlikely event of emergency aircraft depressurisation," Cathay said in a statement. "Both cabin crew and passengers have in-seat aircraft oxygen available at all times." The airline said the depleted bottles were refilled and checked by engineers prior to departure. The incident, which comes as the airline is under scrutiny from China's aviation regulator, caused a stir on Chinese social media, with many commentators accusing the airline of endangering flight safety. Cathay has emerged as the highest-profile corporate target as Beijing looks to quell protests in Hong Kong, with the Chinese government demanding it suspend staff involved in a protest movement, citing flight safety concerns. Pilots and cabin crew have described a "white terror" of political denunciations, sackings and phone searches by Chinese aviation officials. The carrier's chief executive, Rupert Hogg, stepped down this month, and his replacement, Augustus Tang, told staff one of his priorities was to focus on safety and security. https://www.yahoo.com/news/cathay-investigates-crew-oxygen-bottles-092940347.html Back to Top Argus Sees Ops Growth after Mixed First Half Following the mixed results in the first half of 2019, Argus is anticipating business aviation operations in the U.S. will continue to gain strength in the second half, with increases anticipated in most months, the data specialist forecast said in its newly released 2019 Mid-year Business Aviation Review. In the first six months, business aviation turbine operations in the U.S., Canada, and the Caribbean were up three months and down three months. But overall, flight activity through the first six months was up 0.3 percent from 2018 and flight hours rose 0.7 percent. Charter operations slipped in each of the first six months and ended down 2.2 percent in the first half. However, the fractional segment made gains throughout the first half, culminating in a 6.2 percent year-over-year gain. The Part 91 segment saw a slight improvement, up in four of the six months and 0.7 percent overall during the period, Argus reported. Despite this, flights were down for all aircraft segments except midsize jets in the first half. Flight activity for midsize jets was up 3.3 percent in the first half, but down 0.6 percent for large-cabin jets, 1.8 percent for light jets, and 0.4 percent for turboprops. Gama Aviation Signature logged the most hours of the 135 carriers in the first half at 42,020, which was down from the 43,974 in the first half of 2018. The next closest in terms of flight hours was Executive Jet Management at 31,053 hours, followed by XOJet (23,209), Delta Private Jets (20,314), and Solairus Aviation (15,581). Argus anticipates that business aviation will be up 2 percent year-over-year in the second half, with September and December expected to bring the strongest gains in this period. Argus forecasts a 4.6 percent increase in September and 3.3 percent in December. Bolstering this is that returns for July surpassed initial expectations of a 1 percent rise; it actually logged a 2.4 percent increase. https://www.ainonline.com/aviation-news/business-aviation/2019-08-26/argus-sees-ops-growth-after-mixed-first-half Back to Top NOAA Orders New Aircraft The U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) awarded contracts for the purchase of two new aircraft on Monday. One will be a modified Gulfstream G550, which NOAA says will be used for missions including hurricane and tropical storm forecasts and atmospheric research. The second addition will be a Beechcraft King Air 350 CER turboprop. According to NOAA, the King Air will be outfitted with remote sensing equipment to gather data used in flood, river level and water supply forecasts. It will also be utilized in coastal mapping and aerial damage survey missions. "These American-made aircraft will greatly enhance NOAA's ability to collect data that are vital to forecasters, researchers, and emergency managers," said acting NOAA administrator Neil Jacobs. "Observations from the high-altitude Gulfstream jet will greatly enhance NOAA's predictive capabilities for hurricane track and intensification, while the King Air turboprop will provide essential data for many missions, including planning and recovery efforts for coastal and inland flooding." Delivery of the $40.7 million G550 is expected in 2022. The King Air 350 CER contract came in at $11.8 million with the aircraft scheduled to enter service in spring 2021. Both aircraft will be based at the NOAA Aircraft Operations Center in Lakeland, Florida, from which the agency currently operates a fleet of nine aircraft modified for environmental data-gathering. https://www.avweb.com/recent-updates/business-military/noaa-orders-new-aircraft/ Back to Top Russia's Aeroflot Denies Having Biggest Pilot Gender Gap Russia's national carrier Aeroflot has disputed a recent ranking of global airlines' gender gaps among pilots, saying it has a higher ratio of women aviators than reported. Aeroflot was ranked the last of 45 major airlines worldwide in the FromAtoB.com travel platform's study cited by Bloomberg last week, with 1.4% of its pilots being women. After initially counting 58 female pilots, Bloomberg appended Aeroflot's clarification that the airline employs 62 women pilots. "Aeroflot currently employs about 2,800 pilots and not 4,200 as claimed in the Bloomberg rating. Thus, the rating is hardly reliable," an Aeroflot spokesman told the Vedomosti business daily Sunday. The new data would indicate that 2.2% of pilots at Russia's flagship airline are women. An average of 5.2% of pilots at the airlines surveyed are women, according to the FromAtoB.com study. "When hiring pilots, Aeroflot provides equal opportunities to all candidates, and the main criterion is professionalism," Aeroflot said. Working as a pilot in Russia "was considered masculine until recently, which is why there were practically no female pilots at [Russian] airlines," but the situation is changing, Vedomosti cited Aeroflot as saying. Australia's regional carrier Qantas had the highest share of women in the cockpit with 11.6%. The study's authors based their ranking on data from the Air Line Pilots Association (ALPA) and the International Society of Women Airline Pilots (ISWAP). https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2019/08/26/russias-aeroflot-denies-having-biggest-pilot-gender-gap-a67021 Back to Top Pilot praised for 1989 Iowa crash landing dies in Seattle SIOUX CITY, Iowa (AP) - Al Haynes, a pilot credited for saving the lives of nearly 200 people by guiding a damaged passenger jet into a crash landing at an Iowa airport in 1989, has died. Haynes died Sunday at age 87 in a Seattle-area hospital, said Gary Brown, an emergency services director for Woodbury County, Iowa. Brown confirmed the death with Haynes' daughter. Haynes was hailed for his skill when the United Airlines DC-10 jet lost all hydraulic power after the rear engine exploded during a flight from Denver to Chicago on July 19, 1989. Haynes and his crew used the two remaining engines to steer a course to Sioux City, Iowa, where the plane crashed on the runway, bursting into flames and breaking apart in a cornfield. There were 296 people on board and 184 survived. Haynes was credited for guiding the severely damaged plane toward the airport by making a series of 360-degree turns to the right. The acclaim was similar to the credit given to US Airways pilot Chesley Sullenberger in 2009 when he landed a jet on the Hudson River in New York. On the 25th anniversary of the crash, Haynes said he'd always think of those who died. "On my mind forever will be the thoughts of the 112 who did not survive," Haynes told the Des Moines Register in 2014. The crash also led to changes in plane design to add backup systems that could prevent such catastrophic failures, which made Haynes' flight nearly impossible to control. Jan Brown, who was the lead flight attendant, recalled the crash in 2014, telling The Associated Press the crew quickly realized the danger. "The potential was that we could all go straight down," Brown said. When the engine exploded, chunks of metal ripped apart all three of the jet's hydraulic systems, causing the loss of hydraulic fluid and shutting down the system that control the plane's altitude and direction. Over 40 minutes, Haynes managed to navigate the plane to Sioux City and bring it to the ground, where a wing plowed into the ground and sent the plane into a cartwheel. Flight attendant Susan Callander told the AP in 2012, "To be one of those pilots, they are all heroes, and he played an instrumental role in saving all those lives." https://www.yahoo.com/news/pilot-praised-1989-iowa-crash-210214353.html Back to Top Russia's Rostec unit ready for out-of-court deal with Boeing on 737 MAX order MOSCOW, Aug 27 (Reuters) - A unit of Russian conglomerate Rostec said on Tuesday it was ready for an out-of-court settlement with Boeing over its order for 35 Boeing 737 MAX jets, a spokesman for Rostec's subsidiary Avia Capital Service told Reuters. Boeing MAX 737 jets have been grounded worldwide and airlines are cancelling multimillion contracts following crashes in October and March that killed 346 people. Earlier on Tuesday, Rostec said its unit had filed a lawsuit in the United States to cancel its order for the 35 MAX jets. The Financial Times, which first reported the move, said Avia Capital Service gave Boeing a cash deposit of $35 million. A spokesman for Avia Capital Service told Reuters that delivery of the jets was first scheduled for October 2019 but was moved to March 2022. The Rostec unit had paid Boeing a deposit and was suffering losses from non-delivery, he said. "If Boeing executives show a good will, we are ready to hold talks and find a mutually-beneficial out-of-court settlement for compensation of the losses we have suffered," he said. He added that the jets were ordered for a number of Russian air companies, including domestic low-cost firm Pobeda, a unit of the state carrier Aeroflot. Russia is mainly using Boeing and Airbus jets for passenger flights, with a number of domestic airlines also adding Russian-made regional Sukhoi Superjet aircraft to their fleets. The Rostec subsidiary now wants the deposit to be returned by Boeing with interest, along with $75 million in "lost profit" and about $115 million in compensatory damages, plus "several times the amount" in punitive damages, the FT said. Rostec declined to provide further details about the lawsuit. https://www.yahoo.com/news/1-russias-rostec-unit-ready-093934128.html Back to Top The Air Force's secret space plane sets a new record: 718 days in orbit But what the heck is it doing up there? The U.S. Air Force's X-37B space plane has been orbiting Earth since September 7th, 2017, crossing the 718 day mark and breaking its previous record of 717 days, 20 hours and 42 minutes in flight. While little is known about the classified X-37B, we do know that it's able to stay in operation for such long stretches of time thanks in part to its solar panels and a lack of a human crew. The Air Force began putting the space plane through its paces in 2010, with the first "Orbital Test Vehicle" (OTV) mission, which lasted 224 days. Each successive mission has lasted roughly 200 days longer than the previous flight, so the current mission, OTV-5, may stay in orbit for several more months. This trend of increasing endurance raises the question of why the Air Force needs a ship in orbit for what could turn out to be years at a time. The Daily Beast has reported that the X-37B is "designed to carry experimental payloads of sensors-like...high-tech cameras of various types, electronic sensors and ground-mapping radars." Its ability to easily land means the ship could hypothetically bring a spy satellite into orbit for a testing period, then safely return it to Earth for any adjustments. The OTV missions are classified, so the official descriptions of what the ship is doing up there are unsurprisingly vague. According to the craft's public mission fact sheet, "The primary objectives of the X-37B are twofold; reusable spacecraft technologies for America's future in space and operating experiments which can be returned to, and examined, on Earth." We've also heard rumors that the project is a test for Hall-effect propulsion, which uses ions to produce thrust. https://www.engadget.com/2019/08/26/air-force-space-plane-new-record/ Back to Top Back to Top DISPAX World 2019 18 - 19 September 2019, The Riverside Venue, London, UK The 3rd International Conference on Unruly Airline Passenger Behaviour With only a few weeks to go, DISPAX World 2019 is fast approaching! We are delighted to be able to offer all subscribers to Curt Lewis a 20% discount on the delegate rate. To redeem this offer use the promotional code: CURT20 when registering on the conference website: www.unrulypax.com/registration/ Disruptive passenger incidents are a daily occurrence on board commercial flights around the world. Seemingly trivial issues can quickly escalate into explosive situations that endanger the safety of passengers and crew. The much anticipated 3rd edition of DISPAX World returns to London to explore the broad range of causes of such behaviour, the responses available and the legal implications for carriers and states. Looked at from diverse perspectives, including those of aircrew, passengers, regulatory authorities, industry associations, and law enforcement, DISPAX World 2019 will provide a comprehensive and authoritative programme over two days in one of the busiest airline hubs in the world: London. Speakers will include industry leaders, aircrew, airport operators, academics and law enforcement agencies. DISPAX World 2019 is a must-attend conference for: Flight attendant instructors Unions & staff associations Pilots Law enforcement agencies Airline Security Personnel Airport operators Government transportation regulators Security companies Aviation health professionals & psychologists Consumer bodies Academics & researchers International law firms For more information and to view the programme, please visit: www.unrulypax.com or contact the Event Manager, Lucy Rawlings, at lrawlings@avsec.com and don't forget to follow us on Twitter: @DispaxWorld Curt Lewis