FROM THE PUBLISHER
FLIGHT SAFETY DETECTIVES PODCAST
A GREAT PERSPECTIVE ON MAINTENANCE ISSUES. I recently started listening to a Podcast
PUBLISHER
GREG NAPERT
gnapert@DOMmagazine.com
on my iPhone called Flight Safety Detectives. Flight Safety Detectives is hosted by two industry consultants and former NTSB investigators, Greg Feith and John Goglia, who discuss aircraft accidents from an open-minded perspective of an accident investigator. Goglia and Feith have 100 years of worldwide aviation safety experience between them. Because of John Goglia’s background (a mechanic with the airlines for more than 30 years, and the fi rst aircraft mechanic appointed to the NTSB) the podcast delves heavily into maintenance issues relative to the accidents they discuss. One of the many examples of this is Episode 5. Flight Safety and the Role of Airplane Maintenance. In this Feith and Goglia have a discussion of regulations and legalities involving maintenance. Goglia applies his practical experience to many of the issues and talks candidly about where mechanics often expose themselves with something as simple as a logbook entry! In other podcasts, they take a deep dive into actual ongoing accident investigations and related accident reports. For example, they take the National Transportation Safety Committee (NTSC) report for the 737 Max Air Ethiopian accident and the Lion Air crashes that have been in the news recently and completely peel back all of the politics, emotions, and accusations that are being carelessly thrown about by politicians as well as the press. They quickly get to the heart of these accidents (based the reports). You will be surprised at how their honest approach to dissecting the information brings them in a whole diff erent direction with regards to who actually may be responsible for some of these accidents. Did you know, for example, that the Indonesian Lion Air 737 Max actually had issues with the AOA indicator for several fl ights (more
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than 20 days) prior to the crash and they kept fl ying the aircraft? Also, even though the 737 Max in question was still covered under Boeing’s warranty, the airlines choose to purchase a replacement AOA vane through a third party and the condition of that AOA vane, as well as the installation procedures that were used to install the vane are questionable at best? Further, the report fails to dig into the pilot training program (or lack thereof) that the airlines had in place. These are the types of honest discussions
that you will hear in this podcast. And these types of discussions are important. They are important because honest discussions cut to the safety culture that we experience in our industry. They are important because it’s only by understanding our true faults and weaknesses and addressing them that we can become safer as an industry. By putting the entire weight of the issues that impact the 737 Max on Boeing (or on any one entity), for example, we cloud the actual chain of events that took place and lose our opportunity to improve safety. I hope that you have a chance to listen to Flight Safety Detectives. It’s important to hear what Goglia and Feith have to say about safety. And regardless of what segment of aviation you work in, there are take-aways for everyone. We need to remind ourselves frequently that one accident is one too many, and that anything we can do to improve safety is worth the eff ort. This podcast helps serve as this reminder.
Flight Safety Detectives podcast is
available through your podcast apps on your mobile device (simply search for Flight Safety Detectives on your podcast app), as well as online on your computer at http://fl
ightsafetydetectives.com. Thanks for reading.
Greg Napert, Proud to be an A&P
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