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- Recent Accidents Highlight Need for Enhanced General Aviation Safety
- Officials: EU, US agree on air cargo screening
- Michael Robert ‘Bob’ Baas: Longtime American pilot enamored with …
Recent Accidents Highlight Need for Enhanced General Aviation Safety
MarketWatch
30, 2008
PHOENIX, AZ, Oct 30, 2008 (MARKET WIRE via COMTEX) –
Recent aviation incidents, including those involving Blink 182′s
Travis Barker and DJ AM (Adam Goldstein), and Barenaked Ladies’ Ed
Robertson, have drawn wide-spread attention to the inherent and often
preventable dangers that take place during the taxiing, take off and
landing of general aviation aircraft. , the leading
provider of safety and securement products to the aviation, defense
and ground transportation markets, launched an online survey to
uncover awareness among the general aviation community regarding the
ability to upgrade legacy aircraft with airbags. “General aviation manufacturers have long recognized the added safety
the
AmSafe Airbag system provides as the restraint is standard equipment
on 80 percent of new single-engine aircraft,” said Bill Hagan,
president of AmSafe Aviation. “We now are looking to understand
attitudes among legacy aircraft owners surrounding the importance of
retrofitting their planes with this life-saving technology.
Officials: EU, US agree on air cargo screening
The Associated Press
11 recommendation intended to lower the threat of a terrorist shipping something dangerous on a commercial aircraft with passengers. The change moves flights originating in Europe closer to the level of security now in place for international flights originating in the United States. Intelligence continues to show that terrorists are targeting the aviation industry, as evidenced by the 2006 plot to use liquid explosives to blow up U. -bound flights from Britain. In addition, Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff has said Europe is a platform for terrorism against the United States. A Homeland Security Department official described the agreement on condition of anonymity ahead of the announcement of the new policy, expected Friday.
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Michael Robert ‘Bob’ Baas: Longtime American pilot enamored with …
Dallas Morning News, TX
com
Michael Robert “Bob” Baas could fly an airplane before he could drive a car. For nearly 60 years of his life, he seemed to be flying a plane or studying aviation history. He hunted submarines from the sky for the Navy, before beginning a 35-year career with American Airlines, retiring as a Lockheed L-1011 captain. When he wasn’t flying, he was a volunteer for the Smithsonian National Air & Space Museum in Washington, D. , and the Frontiers of Flight Museum in Dallas.