Safety
NTSB Renews Call for Mandatory FDM, SMS for Part 135
The NTSB said the May 2017 Learjet 35A crash highlighted a series of safety issues in Part 135, including the lack of FDM and pilot oversight.

The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) yesterday renewed its call for the FAA to mandate flight data monitoring and to implement measures to improve training and safety management on all Part 135 operations. In all, the NTSB made three new and reissued six previous recommendations as a result of its findings on the May 15, 2017 crash of a Learjet 35A (N452DA) near Teterboro Airport in New Jersey (TEB). Both the pilot-in-command (PIC) and second-in-command (SIC) were killed on the Part 91 positioning flight after they lost control of the aircraft during a circling approach to TEB’s Runway 1 and crashed into a nearby commercial building and parking lot.