Flight Safety Digest
Flight Safety Foundation
Vol. 23  no. 8  August 2004
For Everyone Concerned With the Safety of Flight
www.flightsafety.org
OFFiCErS And STAFF
Chairman, Board of Governors Hon. Carl W. Vogt

in This issue
President and CEO Stuart Matthews
Executive Vice President robert H. Vandel
Treasurer James S. Waugh Jr.

Stabilized Approach and Flare
AdMiniSTrATiVE

Are Keys to Avoiding Hard Landings
Manager, Support Services Linda Crowley Horger

Flight crews primarily use their judgment to identify and report FinAnCiAL hard landings, but recorded flight data also might be useful to gauge the severity of the impact before a conditional

Director of Finance

maintenance inspection is performed. The accident record
and Administration Crystal n. Phillips

shows that hard landings often involve substantial damage
Accountant Millicent Wheeler

and sometimes result in fatalities.
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MEMbErSHiP

Director, Membership

Number of Canadian Aircraft Involved in
and Development Ann Hill

Accidents in 2003 Declines from
Membership Services

Coordinator Ahlam Wahdan Five-year Average PubLiCATiOnS The number of Canadian airplanes involved in accidents was

higher in 2003 than in 2002, and the number of helicopters

Director of Publications roger rozelle

involved in accidents was lower.
Senior Editor Mark Lacagnina
Senior Editor Wayne rosenkrans

Leadership Is Essential to
Senior Editor Linda Werfelman

“Winning the Risk Game”
Associate Editor rick darby
Web and Print

Leaders often make the difference in the outcome — if they
Production Coordinator Karen K. Ehrlich

understand the rules of the risk-management game, suggests

Production Designer Ann L. Mullikin

the author of How Safe Is Safe Enough?

Production Specialist Susan d. reed
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Librarian, Jerry Lederer Aviation Safety Library Patricia Setze
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TECHniCAL  Aircraft Collide in Gate Area
Director of Technical Programs James M. burin The flight crew of one of the Airbus A320s said that ground Technical Programs Specialist Joanne Anderson personnel had motioned to them to indicate the wing tip clearance distance. One ground crewmember, however, said
Managing Director of
Internal Evaluation Programs Louis A. Sorrentino iii that he had given the crew “the hold sign.”

Q-Star Program Administrator robert Feeler
Manager, Data Systems
and Analysis robert dodd, Ph.d.

Manager of Aviation
Safety Audits darol V. Holsman

Founder  Jerome Lederer
1902–2004

Flight Safety Foundation is an international membership organization dedicated to the continuous improvement of aviation safety. Nonprofit and independent, the Foundation was launched officially in 1947 in response to the aviation industry’s need for a neutral clearinghouse to disseminate objective safety information, and for a credible and knowl-edgeable body that would identify threats to safety, analyze the problems and recommend practical solutions to them. Since its beginning, the Foundation has acted in the public interest to produce positive influence on aviation safety. Today, the Foundation provides leadership to more than 910 member organizations in more than 142 countries.
　
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