Safety
NTSB Hosts LOC Forum at Oshkosh
Panelists cite training, tools, and technology in battle against aviation’s number-one killer

The NTSB staged its “first ever” General Aviation Safety Road Show at EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2018, presenting a forum on loss of control (LOC) led by more than half a dozen top safety officials and aviators. LOC, a stubborn fixture on the agency’s annual Most Wanted List of safety improvements, “claims more lives than any other factor in general aviation—almost half of the fatalities,” NTSB chairman Robert Sumwalt said in opening remarks.