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Expert Talks Aviation Safety at NBAA Maintenance Conference

Former NTSB lead investigator Gregory Feith gave the keynote address

Former NTSB lead investigator Gregory Feith — With more than three decades of aviation accident investigation experience, Gregory Feith delivered the day one keynote address on safety at NBAA’s annual Maintenance Conference. © Curt Epstein/AIN

By Curt Epstein • Business Aviation Services Editor

May 1, 2025

The recent run of aviation accidents starting off the year has focused a spotlight on aviation safety. Gregory Feith, a former senior accident investigator with the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), as well as a private pilot and a highly respected expert on aviation safety, addressed the role that maintenance has to play in his keynote address on Tuesday at NBAA’s Maintenance Conference in Columbus, Ohio.

“We don’t want those accidents and the people that are involved in those accidents and incidents to have either perished or at least sustained any kind of injury in vain,” said Feith, who spearheaded a number of high-profile accident investigations during his more than two decades with the agency. “We have to take those lessons, we have to bring them back into aviation.”

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