Flight Safety Foundation Approach-and-Landing Accident Reduction Task Force - Operations and Training Working Group final report

摘要

Since the early 1990s Flight Safety Foundation (FSF) has given its highest priority to improving safety in approach-and-landing flight operations. Early on, the Foundation created and led an international task force to reduce controlled flight into terrain (CFIT), which was shown statistically to be the greatest cause of aviation fatalities. In cooperation with the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) and the International Air Transport Association (IATA), the task force identified specific causes of CFIT, developed solutions to those problems and disseminated safety information to prevent CFIT accidents. As the task force's work on CFIT came to a conclusion, the FSF CFIT Steering Committee began to focus on approach-and-landing accidents (ALAs); virtually all data on aviation accidents and incidents show significantly more risk to safety in these phases of flight than any others. In 1996 the steering committee was expanded to include the additional efforts of approach-and-landing accident reduction (ALAR).