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Issue No. 17, September-December 2016, Editor: J. Gary DiNunno

“Air Safety Through Investigation”

ISASI member and ERAU Professor Antho-ny Brickhouse reports that eight students from the ISASI Student Chap-ter at the Daytona Beach Campus of Embry-Riddle Aeronautical Uni-versity, in July, visited the Hellenic Air Acci-dent Investigation and Aviation Safety Board in Athens, Greece. The ISASI students were part of a larger group in Greece for a month-long study abroad program hosted by Aegean Air-lines and Get Lost. Brickhouse, who leads the ISASI Student Men-toring Program, arranged the visit to the Aviation Safety Board through the contacts of ISASI International Councilor Caj Frostell, President Frank Del Gandio, and Vice-President Ron Schleede. Joining the students was ERAU Daytona Beach College of Avia-tion Dean, Dr. Nickolas Macchi-arella. The students received briefings from Lead Investigator Nikos Pouliezos and Chairman Athanasios Binis. Brickhouse observed that plans are in the works for another Greek Study Abroad for summer 2017 that will have a safety spe-cific focus. ♦

ISASI Student Members from Embry-Riddle

Visit Greek Aviation Safety Board

ISASI student members from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical Uni-

versity visit the Hellenic Air Accident Investigation and Aviation

Safety Board during a month-long study abroad program.

ISASI Officer Election Results

Voting for ISASI Executive Officers closed on October 1, 2016. Troy

Jackson, ISASI Nominating Committee Chairman, reported that all in-

cumbent ISASI officials were returned to office for another term.

ISASI Executive Officers are: President—Frank Del Gandio, Vice

President—Ron Schleede, Secretary—Chad Balentine, and Treasur-

er—Bob MacIntosh. Also returned to office with this ballot is U.S.

Councilor Toby Carroll and International Councilor Caj Frostell. ♦

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Mr. Chan, Wing Keong (Director of the Transport Safety Inves-tigation Bureau in Sin-gapore, which is also the Secretary of the AsiaSASI) and Caj Frostell , ISASI Inter-national Councillor , presented a 5-day basic accident investigation course for the Federat-ed States of Micronesia from 4 to 8 July 2016. A presentation of ISASI was included. The course was held in Pohnpei, which is one of the four island States; the others are Kosrae, Chuuk and Yap. Many of the 25 participants were from the civil aviation administration and the airport in Pohnpei, and some partici-pants were from the airports in Kosrae and Chuuk; and two participants were from the Majuro Atoll, Marshall Islands. ♦

ISASI Promoted during Micronesia Training Course

Micronesia accident investigation course with Chan Wing

Keong, Director, TSIB, Singapore; Lukner Weilbacher, Sec-

retary, Dept. of Transportations, Communication and Infra-

structure; and ISASI International Councillor Caj Frostell sit-

ting in the front row.

ISASI members attend the SoCal Regional Chapter meeting in Au-gust 2016. Shown clockwise from the left front are: Peter Leffe, Jean-Claude Demerjian, Grant Bro-phy, Joseph Barclay, Tom Anthony, Jeremy Katt, Karena Marinas, Mike Barr, Amy La Rue, Daniel Scalese, Felicia Boyd, Justin Jaussi, and Peter Trono.

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The Southeast Regional Chapter (SERC) of ISASI is making arrangements for their 2017 Annual Meeting to be held in New Orleans, LA. Final dates are still to be determined, but mid to late March is standard. Please feel free to submit requests for preferences during this time frame. Individuals wishing to offer presentations should submit information to Alicia Storey at astorey@srca.net.

Key Deadlines:

December 2, 2016: Expressions of Interest. If you are interested in presenting a paper, please email an expression of interest (including the title) or direct any questions to astorey@srca.net.

January 20, 2017: Submission of Final Written Paper/Extract, and accompanying PowerPoint Presentation.

On behalf of Robert Rendzio, President; Dan McCune, Vice President; and Alicia Storey, Secretary/Treasurer, we look forward to see-ing you in New Orleans! ♦

SERC Seeks Papers For

2017 Regional Meeting

DFW Chapter Holds 2016 Meeting

The DFW Regional Chapter held its summer meeting on September 8, Chapter President Erin Carroll said. Forty people attended and enjoyed the net-working opportunity and great food. ISASI President Frank Del Gandio shared interesting historical information about the chapter, along with discussing the benefits of membership. “Our other guest speaker,” Carroll noted was Ken Jenkins, who provided an informative presentation on family assis-tance after an accident.” Ken discussed the back-ground of the Family Assistance Act and the role that operators and airport personnel play in the af-termath of an accident. ♦

ISASI’s Rudolf Kapustin Memorial Scholarship, established in 2002 to memorialize all deceased ISASI members, provided 40 scholarships to wor-thy students in the last 14 years. The selection com-mittee, chaired by ISASI Secretary, Chad Balen-tine, with members Alicia Storey and Erin Gorm-ley, reviewed 14 applications and selected four es-says to be the 2016 recipients of the scholarship. The new Kapustin Scholars are:

Andre William Woenardi, University of South-ern California, Los Angeles, USA; and Yasmeen Syed, University of Southern Califor-nia Viterbi School of Engineering, Los Ange-les,USA, are dual authors of the essay AirAsia 8501: Echoes of Air France 447?

Taylor Beall, 24, Delft University of Technolo-gy, the Netherlands, essay: New Materials, New Challenges.

Jiaqi Cao, Cranfield University UK; essay: The Challenges For Air Safety Investigators: Ex-ploring Potential Link To Achieve Real-Time Data Transmission.

Carly Christian Shoemake, Embry-Riddle Aer-onautical University, Daytona Beach, Florida, USA; essay: Social Media in Crisis Communi-cation. ♦

ISASI Announces 2016

Kapustin Scholars

DFW Regional Chapter officers are, shown

during the annual meeting from left: Sean Mul-

holland, Erin Carroll, and Court Goodre.

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ISASI International Councillor Caj Frostell reports that the General Authority of Civil Aviation (GACA), Saudi Ara-bia, supervised by ICAO in collaboration with the Arab Civil Aviation Commission (ACAC), organized a Global Ministerial Aviation (GMA) Summit in Riyadh, Saudi Ara-bia during August 29 to 31, 2016. The Aviation Investiga-tion Bureau (AIB) of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) was a sponsor of the GMA Summit, which attracted some 800 participants to the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Riyadh. The AIB display booth was a major attraction of participant interest. The AIB was also the sponsor of the Gala Dinner of the GMA Summit. During the din-ner, ISASI’s logo was prominent-ly displayed advertising the MENASASI (Middle East and North Africa Society of Air Safe-ty Investigators). The GMA Summit included a session on “Regional Accident Investigation Organizations (RAIOs). The session included presentations on “A Phased Build-up of Regional Cooperation in AIG” by Abdelelah Felemban, Director General of the KSA AIB, and “The Implementation of the Banjul Accord Group Acci-dent Investigation Agency (BAGAIA) in West Africa” by Caj Frostell, Commissioner of BAGAIA. In the week following the GMA Summit, the KSA AIB organized a four-day course in “Writing the Final Report” in Jeddah with Caj Frostell as instructor. “This was an excellent opportunity,” Frostell observed, “to discuss ac-cident investigation, ISASI and MENASASI activities with 16 active accident investigators over four days.” ♦

ISASI Presence Grows in Saudi Arabia

Pang Min Li, Senior Investigator for the Transportation Safety Investi-gation Bureau, Singapore notes that on August 1, 2016, the Ministry of Transport (MOT) of Singapore restructured the Air Accident Investiga-tion Bureau of Singapore (AAIB) to form the new Transport Safety In-vestigation Bureau (TSIB). The TSIB will conduct investigations into air and marine accidents and incidents, independently of and separately from any judicial or reg-ulatory proceedings, and make recommendations to enhance the safety of air and sea transport. The sole objective of TSIB’s investigations is the prevention of accidents and incidents; they are not for the purpose of apportioning blame or liability. The TSIB will continue and build on the good work of the AAIB. ♦

Shown above: The KSA AIB course participants; seated, third

from the left is AIB Director General Abdulelah Felimban and

ISASI International Councillor Caj Frostell.

MOT Singapore Reorganizes AAIB

ISASI 2017 August 22-24, San Diego, California

“Accident Investigations:

Do They Really Make a Difference”

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Search for MH370 Continues The Australian Transport Safety Bureau published an opera-tional report on September 21, 2016 “to provide regular updates on the progress of the search effort for MH370, the Malaysian Airlines aircraft lost on March 8, 2014. Our work will continue to be thorough and methodical, so sometimes weekly progress may seem slow. Please be assured that work is continuing and is aimed at finding MH370 as quickly as possible.” Recent developments--Fugro Equator is in the search area and conducting search operations. Dong Hai Jiu 101 is at anchor off Fremantle awaiting the onset of better weather in the search area when it will recommence search operations. Underwater search operations--More than 110,000 square kilometres of the seafloor have been searched so far. During a meeting of Ministers from Malaysia, Australia and the People’s Republic of China held on July 22, 2016, partici-pants agreed that should the aircraft not be located in the current search area, and in the absence of credible new evidence leading to the identification of a specific location of the aircraft, the search would be suspended upon completion of the 120,000 square kilometer search area. The ATSB expects that searching the entire 120,000 square kilometer search area will be complet-ed by or around December 2016. The Ministers went to great lengths to explain that this does not mean the termination of the search. Should credible new in-formation emerge that can be used to identify the specific loca-tion of the aircraft, consideration will be given to determining next steps. ♦

NTSB Sees Less GA Accidents According to the latest aviation accident statistics released by the Na-

tional Transportation Safety Board, Part 91 general-aviation accidents

and fatalities continued their downward trend in 2015. And, just as in

2014, there were no fatalities for U.S. airlines.

General Aviation flight hours were up in 2015, the total number of

accidents were down, from 1,223 in 2014 to 1,209, as was the rate of

accidents per 100,000 flight hours. “Even though the fatality rate in

2015 was the lowest it has been in many years, 376 people still lost

their lives,” said NTSB Chairman Christopher A. Hart, “which is why

improving general aviation safety is on the NTSB’s Most Wanted List

of transportation safety improvements.. The accident rate for non-

scheduled air carrier flights, or on-demand Part 135 operations

(charter, air taxi, air tour, and air medical operations), was up, but on-

ly slightly. The 2015 statistical tables showing accidents, fatalities,

and accident rates for major segments of U.S. civil aviation can be

found at: http://www.ntsb.gov/investigations/data/

Documents/2015_preliminary_aviation_statistics.xls. ♦

Robert Sumwalt Given Safety Standdown Award During its 20th Safety Standdown, recently held in Wichita, Kansas, Bomdardier, an ISASI corporate member, presented long-time ISASI member and avia-tion safe-ty advo-cate, Rob-ert L. Sumwalt III with its annual Safety Standdown Award for his “outstanding commitment to aviation safety and his continu-ous efforts to develop more ro-bust safety programs within the aviation industry,” reports fly-ingmag.com. Sumwalt, a two-term member of the U.S. National Transporta-tion Board, is a former US Air-ways captain and business avia-tion pilot. As an airline pilot, he chaired the Human Factors and Training Group of the Air Line Pilots Association and co-founded that organization’s crit-ical incident response program. ♦

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New ISASI Members Individual

Akhaven-Zi, Damineh M., Victoria, BC, Canada Baichoo, Ashlesh, Triolet, Mauritius Island Burtonwood, Mark, Dubai, United Arab Emirates Calvert, Jason C., Wellington, New Zealand Candanedo,Panama City, Republic of Panama Chen, Pei-Wen, Prescott, AZ, USA Drouin, Dominic, Winnipeg, MB, Canada Faught, Mark R., Greenbush, MI, USA Glessing, Sterling I., Victoria, BC, Canada Hossain, Ishtiaque, Dhaka, Bangladesh Kapoor, Ashish, New Delhi, India Kiiru, Amy V., Nairobi, Kenya Knezevic, Jovan, Tessera Venezia, Italy Lassiter, Shenearah J., Washington, DC, USA Levanen, Troy S., Yacolt, WA, USA Mandich, Siobhan J., Paraparaumu, New Zealand Mastroberti, Marco, Rome, Italy Nitzshcner, Marco M., Köln, Germany Nixon, Daniel S., Scarborough, QLD, Australia Odonde, Tony, Dubai, United Arab Emirates Park, Junha, Paju, Republic of South Korea Tascione, Lauren M. Justin, TX, USA Thomas, Cameron W., Haverhill, MA, USA Tucker, Timothy W., Madison, AL, USA Wilson, Ian L., Peregian Beach, QLD, Australia

Corporate Petroleum Air Services, Nasr City, Cairo, Egypt Capt. Hesham R. El-Hamahmy, Corporate Safety Manager Capt. Sherif A. El-Bayoumy, Helicopter Safety Manager

ISASI President Frank Del Gan-dio recently attended the Middle East and North Africa Society of Air Safety Investigators (MENASASI) third annual seminar in Rabat, Morocco. The seminar was held at the Centre d’Acceuil et de Confer-ence during September 20-21. There were 92 attendees and the meeting was hosted by the Mo-roccan AIB and MBarek Lafkir, Head of the AIB. Khalid Cherkaoui, Head of the Moroccan DGCA, wel-comed the attendees. Ismaeil Al Hosani, MENASASI President, gave the opening remarks. The MENASASI society affil-iation was signed August 26, 2013. In three years there has been rapid expansion in the so-ciety.

There are presently 184 indi-vidual members and 19 corpo-rate members. MENASASI is planning their fourth annual seminar for next year which will be held in Jeddah, King-dom of Saudi Arabia.

The 2018 ISASI International Seminar will be hosted by MENASASI in Dubai, UAE from October 28 through No-vember 2. The members of MENASASI look forward to welcoming ISASI members from around the world to the United Arab Emirates. ♦

MENASASI Holds Seminar In Morocco

Photo Left: from the left, ISASI President Frank Del

Gandio, MENASASI President Ismaeil Al Hosani,

Khalid Cherkaoui, Head of DGCA, Morocco, and Ab-

dulelah O. Felimban, Director General, KSA AIB.

Above: Participants at the conference center.