USAF Takes Boots-on-the-Ground Approach to FOD Threat
U.S. Air Force Personnel walk the flight line at Luke AFB once a year to clear foreign objects. Maybe this is an approach that FBOs and civil airports need to consider.
U.S. Air Force Personnel walk the flight line at Luke AFB once a year to clear foreign objects. Maybe this is an approach that FBOs and civil airports need to consider.

To focus attention on the dangers posed to aircraft and their engines by foreign object debris (FOD), Luke Air Force Base in Arizona holds an annual walk along its flight line in which personnel clear anything they find. Debris removed from airport ramps, taxiways or runways can wreak havoc on turbine engines and FOD costs the airline industry $12 million annually according to the FAA. The crash of an Air France Concorde in 2000 near Le Bourget Airport (LFPB) in Paris, the result of the aircraft hitting a small piece of metal during its takeoff roll, underscored the dangers of FOD.