Accidents
NBAA Safety Committee Targets Preventable Accidents
NBAA's Safety Committee is focusing on three types of accidents.
As a result of fatal accidents like this tourist floatplane crash in Ketchikan, the NTSB has launched the Alaska Aviation Safety Initiative.
As a result of fatal accidents like this tourist floatplane crash in Ketchikan, the NTSB has launched the Alaska Aviation Safety Initiative.

NBAA’s Safety Committee recently issued its annual update to its list of major safety concerns. One area of the committee’s 2021/2022 focus is preventable accidents, which the committee has broken down into three primary categories: loss of control in flight (LOCI), runway excursions (RE), and controlled flight into terrain (CFIT). Searching through NTSB records, AIN chose these accidents as representative of those categories: