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NBAA Announces 2019 Top Safety Focus Areas

Reducing the risk of loss of-control-inflight is at the top of the list

By Jennifer Leach English • Editorial Director - Business Jet Traveler

March 8, 2019

Reducing the risk of loss of control-inflight (LOC-I), runway excursions, and controlled flight into terrain (CFIT) top NBAA's newly released annual list of pressing business aviation safety issues. “It is important that business aviation operators keep loss of control–inflight, controlled flight into terrain, and runway excursions in focus," said Tom Huff, aviation safety officer for Gulfstream Aerospace and chair of the NBAA Safety Committee, "since these risks remain in the majority of business aviation accidents.”

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