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Chad Trautvetter

<p>Canada’s Transportation Safety Board (TSB) last month released the<a href="http://www.tsb.gc.ca/eng/rapports-reports/aviation/2007/a07a0134/a07a0134.asp blind" target="_blank"> final report</a> on the landing accident of a Bombardier Global 5000 in Fox Harbour, Nova Scotia, on Nov. 11, 2007. Ten people were injured after the Global touched down short of the 4,885-foot runway. The jet was operated by charter operator Jetport, but the accident flight was not a charter. The TSB found that Jetport’s management structure exhibited “several indicators that adequate resources were not in place.” Jetport held a private operator certificate issued by the Canadian Business Aviation Association (CBAA) under delegation by Transport Canada. “At the time of the Fox Harbour accident,” the TSB report noted, “the CBAA did not participate in, or observe, audits of its POC holders and did not have a quality-assurance program in place. This allowed deficiencies in Jetport’s [safety management system] to go unnoticed.” Although the CBAA has “amended its manuals to include a quality-assurance framework for its POC program,” the agency recommended that the CBAA “set safety management system implementation milestones for its certificate holders” and “implement an effective quality-assurance program for auditing certificate holders.”</p>


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TSB Critiques CBAA Oversight in 2007 Crash

Canada’s Transportation Safety Board (TSB) last month released the<link http://www.tsb.gc.ca/eng/rapports-reports/aviation/2007/a07a0134/a07a0134.asp blind