ASAP Case Studies October 2024
Weather Event – Severe Turbulence On a charter flight from MDSD to KHPN, we encountered Severe Turbulence. I was the pilot monitoring for this segment of the flight. Prior to Departure a SIGMET was issued along our route of flight over the North Atlantic tracks. Shortly after being handed off to NY HF Radio the […]
Safety Spotlight: A Passenger’s Expectation of Safety
On December 17, 1903, Orville Wright flew for 59 seconds, and aviation as we know it was born. Later that same day, a hard landing followed by a wind gust severely damaged the airplane. This would be an accident—the expectation of safety circa 1903….one accident every four flights. Lt. Thomas E. Selfridge became the first person […]
