AAP Group Update - Air Safety Forum - ALPAsafetyforum.alpa.org/Portals/31/Images/Tues8-4-09/8-4-09_JointSafe… · 06/08/2009 · IFALPA AAP Meetings in Bali in the Fall and Casablanca

AAP Group Update

Air Safety Week 2009Joint Safety Meeting

Accident Analysis & Prevention Group

Captain Ray Gélinas - ChairmanAir Canada Jazz

Chad Balentine - Senior Staff Engineer


Accident Investigation Board

Dangerous Goods Programs

Safety Information Analysis Program(separate briefing to follow by Marc Champion)

Chad Balentine – Senior Staff EngineerDon McClure – Air Safety Coordinator


AAP Group ChairmanRay Gelinas-ACJ

Director, Safety Information

AnalysisBrit Etzold-NWA

Chairman, Accident Investigation

BoardMike Bender-FDX

DirectorDangerous GoodsMark Rogers-UAL

Project Team Leader Industry Partnership

ProgramsMarc Champion-UAL


Accident Investigation Board

Captain Mike Bender – FedEx Chairman, AIB

Chad Balentine – Senior Staff Engineer


Accident Investigation Board-UpdateVery Busy Year – ALPA is currently a Party or Observer to 22 investigationsCaptain Paul Brady-EGL AIB Vice-Chair attended IFALPA AAP Meetings in Bali in the Fall and Casablanca in the Spring.ALPA Accident Investigation Courses are now accredited by IFALPA. Formal IFALPA accreditation process to begin in the Fall starting with the AIB members.AIB held a meeting in Herndon on April 15 and held another earlier this week ...


Accident Investigation Board-Update

Accident/ Incident Highlights– Continental 1404- B737- DEN

• ALPA is a Party and is on 7 of the 9 Groups• Sent AIB Vice-Chairman Paul Brady, EGL as the AIB

Member assigned to the accident



Accident/ Incident Highlights– Colgan 3407- Q400- BUF

• ALPA is a Party and is on all 10 Groups• AIB Member Pete Frey, DAL is the ALPA Party Coordinator

since Colgan was new to ALPA• Jeff Mee, CAL provided assistance as the AIB Member

assigned to the accident• Public Hearing was held in May 2009



Accident/ Incident Highlights– Fed Ex 80, MD-11, NAR

• ALPA is an Advisor to the NTSB Accredited Representative• ICAO Annex 13 Investigation• Sent 2 FedEx pilots to Narita, including AIB Chairman Mike

Bender to assist the Japanese and NTSB with the investigation


Dangerous Goods Program

Mark Rogers, UnitedDirector, Dangerous Goods Program

Rick Kessel – Senior Staff Engineer

Lithium Battery Update

Congressional Testimony in May

PHMSA Reauthorization Bill now contains language in support of ALPA goalsPromised Full Regulation of Lithium Ion and Lithium Metal Batteries with additional restrictions

Wheelchair Batteries

Several Wheelchair Battery Fires recentlyDifficult Problem to solve due to many different kinds of wheelchairs and user interfaces

Fire usually starts due to inadvertent activation in transit

Wheelchair Battery Fire

Other Dangerous Goods Topics

Magnetized MaterialExplosive ClassificationCompletely new scheme for Limited QuantitiesAdditional Work on Cylinder Safety and CompatibilityPotential Changes to Pilot Notification RequirementsFuel Cells


AAP Chair Activities– Instructed at BSS (Course Director) in SAT in February.– Attended IFALPA Conference in NZ in March as IFALPA RVP

Can/Arctic.– Chaired IFALPA Conference Committee “C” in NZ– Instructed at AI2 in April.– Instructed at AI3 in GFK in June.– Attended the IFALPA AAP meeting in Casablanca in May as the

ALPA-Canada AAP representative.– Overseeing activities for the Jazz MEC as the Chief Accident

Investigator.– Working with staff & EASC to oversee budget and re-allocate

funding where possible.


AAP Chair working with staff on monitoring ’09 budget.AAP Chair attended January and April SOC meetings in Herndon, VA.SIA team continues work on ASIAS.Various FOQA/ASAP/ASIAS meetings attended by Brit Etzold, Marc Champion and Hank Yaap.Hank Yaap retired in March 2009.Marc Champion appointed by Captain Kay to replace him in April 2009.


Working with EASC to re-allocate AAP funds to allow the Group work to continue in 2009.– Went from 30 to 5 Projects– We are anticipating restoring some of the funding

Worked with staff to close some projects. Recommended closing down Accident Survival Directorate.Recommended AXS projects be closed, or transferred to ADO and AGE as that is where most of the work falls under. (Some of this already done!)


Steve Erickson continues working on JIMDAT and CAST activities. AIB continues to work numerous accidents. Here are just a few:– DAL 18 – 11/26/08– ASA 5533 – 3/1/09– UAL 267 – 2/25/08– EGL 3085 – 5/21/2009– UAL 1449 – 10/20/08


2009 has been interesting so far!We have had some staff turnover, but we have filled the staff responsibilities quite nicely!We have a great group of pilot volunteers and we are up to the challenge!We look forward to a productive last half of the year and a great 2010.Thanks to all the volunteers and staff who help make this look easy!

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