#4090 Aviation Mishaps: Examples, Prevention, and Response

Tuesday October 29, 2024;  10:10am - 12:00pm

 #4090 Aviation Mishaps: Examples, Prevention, and Response

Instructor: Mark Dickerson

Most of us travel on commercial flights without a lot of concern for our safety. While the safety questions are always in the back of our minds, they are tucked WAY back there for most of us. The fact is: mile for mile, traveling by commercial air remains by far the safest way to travel, but it’s not perfect. Why is it so safe? What are the REAL risks that remain? And how does “the system” respond when a mishap occurs?

We will dissect several actual air mishaps to gain an understanding of the causes. We will then take a step back and look at the systems, procedures, and equipment that is used to improve safety in our air transportation system. Then we will delve more deeply into a single facet of this system: the mishap investigation process, to learn how it is used, not to find culpability for yesterday’s mishap, but to find ways to avoid similar ones TOMORROW.

Mark Dickerson:  MS in Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering retired from the USAF after 25-years as an
Instructor Pilot, Fighter Pilot, and Test Pilot. He later spent 7 years as a NASA Aeronautics Research
Project Manager. Dickerson holds a Bachelors in Engineering Physics, a Masters in Aeronautical
Engineering, and an MBA. He’s served on the Adjunct Faculties of Colorado Technical University and
Embry -Riddle Aeronautical University, and is a graduate of the USAF Mishap Investigator Course.

$25 PILLAR Members / $40 Nonmembers