February 27, 2017 - No. 017 In This Issue Boeing to open first European factory in UK DJI's new enterprise-class drone ain't pretty, but it sure is powerful Teamster UPS Aircraft Mechanics File For Release From Mediation Boeing Data Analytics to Support Management of flydubai 737 MAX Fleet Nigeria: Massive shake up in the aviation sector, 10 directors sacked, 3 appointed 184 graduate from Ethiopian Airlines Aviation Academy EASA certifies FL Technics for Airbus A330 Base and Line Maintenance Tamil Nadu allots land for 14 firms to make aeroparts Gulfstream Flies Second G600 Test Aircraft EASA safety report highlights worrying increase in serious incidents Boeing to open first European factory in UK Boeing Co said it would invest 20 million pounds ($24.98 million) to open its first production facility in Europe to make components for certain aircraft. The 25,000 square feet facility in Sheffield, UK will make actuators for Boeing's next- generation 737, 737 MAX and 777 aircraft, the company said. Actuation systems extend and retract wing flaps during different phases of flight. Boeing said the Sheffield factory will work closely with its Portland, Oregon plant which makes machine parts, gear systems and flight controls. The investment in UK is part of Boeing's strategy to start in-house manufacturing of key actuation components and systems in the United States and UK to reduce cost in its supply chain, the company said. The Sheffield plant will employ about 30 people, and the company expects to recruit them as early as 2018, Boeing said. http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/boeing-to-open-first-european-factory-in- uk.aspx?pageID=238&nID=110192&NewsCatID=345 Back to Top DJI's new enterprise-class drone ain't pretty, but it sure is powerful Drones are becoming big business. Now they're on the precipice of becoming part of business big and small. DJI - a company that has built drones for entry-level fliers (the Mavic Pro), prosumers (the Phantom line) and photo and cinematography professionals (Inspire) - is hoping to ignite the drone-in-business revolution with its first business-class drone, the M200. The company unveiled its new M200 line of enterprise-class drones at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain on Sunday. However, DJI gave Mashable a tabletop preview of the drone weeks earlier at its offices in Manhattan. When we saw the drone, it was still in development (by the time you read this, it'll be flight-ready and examining a cell tower in Barcelona). Even so, it was clear that the M200 is a departure from DJI's consumer and pro-sumer drones. Yes, it's built around parts similar to what you'd find in the Inspire 2. However, this drone won't win any design awards. It's big, rougher around the edges and only partially foldable (you can remove the legs and bend the rotor arms in), none of which is a problem for a drone designed to serve businesses as opposed to consumers. "We designed and built this based on customer feedback," DJI Communication Director Adam Lisberg said. Drones are already in business, but not integrated into the workflow. Usually, someone in the office, company or department realizes a drone might be good for a task and then the resident drone hobbyist offers to pitch in and does, for instance, a flyover project inspection. Lisberg told me that, with M200, DJI hopes to help businesses make drones part of the workflow. They're also hoping that businesses can get serious about turning certain tasks over to drones for the sake of efficiency and safety. Cell-tower inspection, for instance, is incredibly time-consuming for people: Inspectors must climb all the way up a tower just to look at the antennas and wiring and to find out if birds are building nests among the cells. The job is also dangerous. A drone like the M200 and its siblings, the M210 and the M210 RTK (pictured), can do the same inspection in a matter of minutes while the pilot stays safely on the ground. The M200 drones add several features that will appeal to DJI's business customers in addition to the expected features like proximity sensors on the front, bottom and even the top of the drone and support for all DJI Go app's intelligent features, including Spotlight (lock camera on subject), Point of Interest (circle the subject), Tripod (safe navigation in somewhat enclosed environments) and ActiveTrack (follow and keep person in frame). First of all, there is some weather proofing. The M200 can handle light rain and snow, but probably not a driving rain storm. Even so, when the M200 makes it to a rescue mission, it won't be grounded at the first sign of rain. The M210 adds a second gimbal so pilots can have dual cameras. For example, building inspectors might want a telephoto lens next to a thermal imaging one (so they could see visible structural issues and hidden ones like heat leakage). On the ground, the drone pilot can have both cameras on screen, with one in a picture-in-picture view. There's also a first-person view camera if you want the pilot to operate the drone while someone else manages the feeds from the other two cameras. The M210 will also be DJI's first drone with an upward-facing camera, which should come in handy for examining the underside of bridges. It is, though, a separate device that you place on top of the drone's main section. Doing so blocks the drone's internal GPS, which is why the top-side camera comes with its own GPS add-on. The RTK model also adds a pair of white dome sensors that, according to DJI, will provide centimeter-level positioning accuracy. Because DJI expects these drones to operate in sometimes complex environments where rescue planes, helicopters and even water-dropping airplanes are operating, the drones are equipped with ADS-B (Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast) receivers that will pick up any chatter between standard aircraft and alert the drone pilot to, basically, get the heck out of there. The drone has a range of about 4.2 miles and can fly, with the system's optional and more powerful 174 Wh battery, up to 38 minutes. The M200 series will also be compatible with DJI's software development kit, which Lisberg believes is a crucial component for business application. "Drones are the next application that will generate terabytes of data," he said. Having software that can keep track of and analyze incoming data is crucial for businesses, and groups trying to ensure that they're using their drones efficiently. In a search and rescue, for example, you want to know where the drone has searched and where it has not. More importantly, you want to integrate the drone's search activities and findings with other systems on the ground and in the air; all things that might be possible via development with the DJI SDK. The M200 can be configured with a series of different Zenmuse cameras, including the 20 MP Zenmuse X4S, the 20 MP, Micro Four-Thirds Zenmuse X5S, and the Zenmuse XT, a thermal-imaging camera powered by Flir. Pricing and availability for the DJI M200 has not been set, but it will most certainly cost thousands of dollars. http://mashable.com/2017/02/26/dji-m200-enterprise-drone-news/#cPvNhKG.kiq7 Back to Top Teamster UPS Aircraft Mechanics File For Release From Mediation LOUISVILLE, Ky., Feb. 23, 2017 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- After more than three and a half years of UPS refusing to agree to a new contract with aircraft mechanics and related classifications, Wednesday the mechanics requested that the National Mediation Board (NMB) release them from mediated negotiations with the company. UPS relies on the mechanics, stationed at over 90 gateways across the country, for all maintenance of its cargo aircraft. International Brotherhood of Teamsters Airline Division Director David Bourne delivered the request to the NMB. He also advised the NMB that Teamsters General President Jim Hoffa has pledged his and the International Union's full support of the mechanics' request. In response, the NMB may offer the mechanics, represented by the Teamsters Local 2727, and UPS the opportunity to let a neutral third-party arbitrator decide remaining contract issues. If either the union or the company refuses to arbitrate the dispute, a 30- day "cooling off" period would be triggered and the mechanics could then be free to strike any time after the period ends. The aircraft maintenance workers voted overwhelmingly to authorize a strike in November. In total, 80 percent - 950 - of the company's 1,200 maintenance employees participated in the strike vote, and 98 percent of those workers voted in favor of a strike. "UPS is investing in its fleet and preparing for a future where home package delivery is increasingly common," said Kevin Gawlik, a 20 year aircraft mechanic at UPS's Rockford, IL gateway. "But UPS must also invest in the workforce that keeps those planes flying. No one wants to go on strike, but we are ready to if we need to because UPS mechanics and our families deserve better from UPS." Despite continued growth, UPS is calling for massive reductions in health benefits for 1,200 maintenance workers who are critical to the company's supply chain. UPS aircraft mechanics and other maintenance workers do physically demanding and often dangerous work around jet engine aircraft and equipment and toxic chemicals and exhaust. UPS is also calling for a devastating reduction in benefits for retirees who spent their lives servicing the company's planes. Under UPS's proposal, health coverage for a retiree and his or her spouse would skyrocket to more than $19,000 per year in the first year with further increases each year thereafter. Mechanics have stepped up the pressure on the company over the last several months, most recently holding a rally and picket line in Miami during the Valentine's Day holiday. Ninety percent of the flowers UPS delivers Feb. 14 pass through the Miami International Airport. "Dedicated aircraft maintenance workers are simply asking to keep the benefits they already have so they can keep UPS planes running effectively," said Tim Boyle, president of Teamsters Local 2727, the workers' union. "We are taking this extraordinary step because UPS is refusing to work with us. We'll do whatever it takes to protect good, middle class jobs, our health and our families." Many UPS gateways operate with just one aircraft mechanic per shift, meaning he or she works alone around massive aircraft parts and equipment, sometimes for up to 39 hours straight. Lifting injuries and accidents are common. Repetitive stress injuries, hearing loss, inhaling toxic exhaust, and jet engine blasts are among other health risks UPS aircraft maintenance workers face. Founded in 1903, the International Brotherhood of Teamsters represents 1.4 million hardworking men and women in the United States and Canada. Visit www.teamster.org for more information. Follow us on Twitter @Teamsters and "like" us on Facebook at www.facebook.com/teamsters. http://www.aviationpros.com/news/12308968/teamster-ups-aircraft-mechanics-file-for- release-from-mediation Back to Top Boeing Data Analytics to Support Management of flydubai 737 MAX Fleet Boeing has announced an agreement with flydubai to add Software Distribution Tools to the list of Boeing services the airline utilizes to enhance maintenance and engineering operations, safety and efficiency across the airline's growing 737 fleet. The agreement, which extends to flydubai's 737 MAXs, builds on flydubai's current implementation of Boeing's Airplane Health Management on the airline's Next-Generation 737s and 737 MAXs. Both are data analytics-driven Boeing solutions. "Boeing's Airplane Health Management and other software tools allow flydubai to proactively initiate planning for necessary repairs, strengthening the efficiency of our 737 fleet operations," said Mick Hills, Senior Vice President, Engineering and Maintenance at flydubai. "By reducing the maintenance and ground time for our fleet, these solutions ultimately help to benefit on-time arrivals and departures for our customers." Boeing Software Distribution Tools included in the new agreement include the Loadable Software Airplane Parts Librarian and software management solutions that provide cost savings by enhancing the efficiency of flydubai maintenance operations. "We are pleased to add flydubai to our roster of customers supported by our data analytics-driven products through which we are able to provide real-time data, enhancing and accelerating the airline's success as it continues to expand its 737 fleet," said David Longridge, vice president of sales and marketing, Boeing Commercial Aviation Services. Boeing's Airplane Health Management is currently used by more than 90 airline fleets worldwide to collect and evaluate airplane operations data while the airplane is in flight. Designed to interface with existing airplane systems and communication infrastructure, the system captures real-time data and notifies ground crews of any potential maintenance issues before the airplane lands. This minimizes schedule disruptions and maintenance delays, resulting in significant efficiencies and cost savings for airlines. The predictive analytics tools of AHM provide insights to the performance of the system to airline maintenance and engineering staff. These insights enhance safety, enable ground crews to address technical issues during scheduled maintenance, avoid costly disruptions and reduce overall maintenance costs. flydubai is the largest Boeing single-aisle operator in the Gulf region, operating an all- Boeing fleet of Next-Generation 737-800s. The airline took delivery of its 50th airplane in September 2015, and is continuing to expand its fleet. In January 2014, the airline announced an order for 75 737MAXs, with the first delivery scheduled this year. http://aviationtribune.com/airlines/middle-east/boeing-data-analytics-support- management-flydubai-737-max-fleet/ Back to Top Nigeria: Massive shake up in the aviation sector, 10 directors sacked, 3 appointed The Nigeria aviation sector has witnessed a massive change as the government approved the sack of all the Directors in the regulatory agency, Nigerian Civil Authority (NCAA). No fewer than 10 Directors were unexpectedly sacked from their duty by the government while three new Directors and a General Manager for the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) were appointed. This comes a day after the Vice president and acting President Yemi Osibanjo paid an unscheduled visit to the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Ikeja, Lagos. His visit to the airport, which caught many airport workers and aviation parastatals by surprise, is the first of such visit by either a Vice president or president in an acting capacity. Those affected by the sack are Engr. Benedict Adeyileka (Director of Airworthiness), Justus Wariya (Director of Air Transport Regulation), Alhaji Adamu Abdullahi (Director of Consumer Protection), Capt. Ayodele Sasegbon (Director of General Aviation and Austin- Amadi Ifeanyi (Director of Human Resources). Others are Alhaji Salawu Ozigi (Director of Finance and Accounts), Dr. Joyce Nkemakolam (Director of Aerodrome and Airspace Standards), Barr. Aba Ejembi (Director of Administration) and Mr. Emmanuel Ogunbami (Director of Licensing). According to a statement by the Acting, general Manager, Corporate Affairs FAAN, Henrietta Yakubu, the newly appointed directors are Group Captain U.S.A. Sadiq, appointed as Director of Security Services (DSS), Capt. Rabiu Hamisu Yadudu, appointed as Director of Airport Operations (DAO); Engr. Salisu Nura Daura, appointed as Director of Maintenance and Engineering; and Aniefiok Umoh appointed as General Manager, Finance. The latest major inconvenience facing the travellers to Nigeria currently is the closure of the Abuja's airport for six weeks starting from next month while major repairs are carried out on its runway. With the Abuja's airport shut down, the government is going to reroute flights to a nearby airport in the city of Kaduna. However, the airport in the city only handles just 300 passengers a day compared to Abuja's terminal airport with a capacity of 5,000. According to some experts this new development would result in chaos. Traveling to the capital from Kaduna will also involve a two-hour journey along a road that has been hit by a spate of kidnappings. The government is promising to put on extra security. Unsurprisingly, several international airlines have already announced they will not being flying into Kaduna, although direct flights to Lagos, Kano or Port Harcourt will continue. http://www.africanews.com/2017/02/25/nigeria-massive-shake-up-in-the-aviation- sector-10-directors-sacked-3-appointed/ Back to Top 184 graduate from Ethiopian Airlines Aviation Academy Ethiopian Airlines Aviation Academy (EAA), International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO), TRAINAIR Plus member and International Air Transport Association (IATA), has graduated 184 aviation professionals at a ceremony held at the Academy's Commercial and Cabin Crew Training Building. A statement issued in Accra by Mrs Hanna Atnafu, Manager, Corporate Communications, Ethiopian Airlines and copied to the Ghana News Agency, said among the total graduates were 145 females. The Group Chief Executive Officer, Mr Tewolde GebreMariam gave out diplomas to the graduates and achievement awards to top performing ones. In this round, 90 graduates were for Cabin Crew and Catering, 84 from Commercial and Ground Operations Training School and the rest were trained on Equipment and Facility Maintenance. Mr Tewolde said, "Education is the greatest Equalizer in our highly integrated world today and for this reason we are putting great emphasis in training young Ethiopians and our African brothers and sisters in order to enable them to develop the required global standard qualification to fly successful African Airlines." He said "we are very proud of our Aviation Academy achievements and global standard capabilities in various professions in the Aviation industry." He said in line with their vision 2025, the airline was expanding the capacity of the Academy to accommodate from 1,000 today to 4,000 students by 2025. "Today's graduation is a continuation of this long journey. I take this opportunity to congratulate the graduates and their families and friends. I also thank the Academy staff for their hard work and achievements," he added. Ethiopian Aviation Academy is certified by the Ethiopian Civil Aviation Authority, the U.S Federal Aviation Administration, the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA), and IATA Safety Audit (IOSA). The Academy has been providing training for pilots, aircraft maintenance technicians, cabin crew, marketing personnel and leadership development trainees for Ethiopians and other nationals from Africa, Middle East and Asia for more than seven decades. https://www.ghanabusinessnews.com/2017/02/24/184-graduate-from-ethiopian-airlines- aviation-academy/ Back to Top EASA certifies FL Technics for Airbus A330 Base and Line Maintenance FL Technics, a global provider of tailor-made aircraft maintenance, repair and overhaul services, announced having successfully introduced Base and Line Maintenance services for wide-body aircraft - Airbus A330. The company expanded its EASA Part 145 certificate on 22nd of February, 2017. The expanded EASA Part 145 approval allows FL Technics to conduct a wider range of maintenance works on Airbus A330, powered by Pratt & Whitney PW4000 engines. Airbus A330 base maintenance services will be provided at FL Technics' MRO center at Kaunas International Airport, Lithuania. Previously in 2016, FL Technics introduced Continuous Airworthiness Management support for Airbus A330 operators. "We continuously expand our geography and product range to be independent of one market or customer. The same goes for aircraft type capabilities - the narrow-body aircraft MRO segment is significantly influenced by airlines' high and low seasons. Meantime, operational use of wide-body aircraft is more or else stable throughout the years, meaning that airlines can send these airplanes for maintenance any time," explains Zilvinas Lapinskas, CEO of FL Technics. "I would also like to congratulate our Airbus A330 project team with successful EASA approval and thank them for all the hard work!" Apart for the newly introduced Airbus A330, FL Technics base maintenance capabilities also include Airbus A320 Family and Boeing 737 CL/NG. Base maintenance services are provided at MRO centers in Europe (Vilnius and Kaunas airports) and Asia Pacific (Jakarta airport). The company's line maintenance capabilities include a broad range of narrow and wide- body Airbus, Boeing, Sukhoi, ATR, SAAB, Embraer, Fokker and MD aircraft types. FL Technics line maintenance network includes almost 30 line stations across Europe and Asia Pacific. FL Technics is a global provider of tailor-made solutions for aircraft maintenance and repair. The company specializes in base and line maintenance, spare parts & component support, military aircraft component support, engine, APU and LG management, full aircraft engineering, technical training and consulting, as well as logistics and customs clearance. FL Technics is an EASA Part-145, Part-M, Part-147, Part-21 certified company with certificate approvals in the USA, Indonesia, Bermuda and other countries. FL Technics is a member of the Avia Solutions Group family - an international, publicly traded aviation holding company with over 20 subsidiaries worldwide. http://aviationtribune.com/airlines/europe/easa-certifies-fl-technics-airbus-a330-base- line-maintenance/ Back to Top Tamil Nadu allots land for 14 firms to make aeroparts Setting the ball rolling for its ambitious Aerospace park to come up in Sriperumbudur, Tamil Nadu government has allocated land for 14 companies besides setting up an Advanced Computing and Design Engineering Centre at an outlay of Rs. 350 crore. Tamil Nadu Industries Development Corporation (TIDCO) has proposed to set up an Aerospace Park in a move to help the industry grow in the state on a 600-acre land at the State Industries Promotion Corporation of Tamil Nadu (SIPCOT) Industrial Park, Sriperumbudur. "Land has been allocated for 14 companies while seven more firms have approached TIDCO seeking land," an official release said today. In order to attract aeroparts component manufacturing companies, TIDCO is setting up an Advanced Computing and Design Engineering Centre at an investment of Rs. 350 crore, it said. Similarly, Tidal Park Ltd would also set up a multi-storeyed building in the park on a 12- acre land. The construction work is expected to begin by June-July. According to the Confederation of Indian Industry, the country's premier trade lobby, out of the defence expenditure, approximately 15-20% ($15-20 billion) is expected to be spent on military aircraft. Assuming an offset of 30% for the civil aviation sector too, the total offset opportunity for the aerospace sector is valued to be at least $10-15 billion. As Indian manufacturing capabilities mature over the years, it is expected to capture a large share of this opportunity. The Indian aerospace industry is one of the fastest-growing aerospace markets in the world. The rapid growth of this industry has attracted major global aerospace companies to India. All segments in the aerospace industry, including civil and military aviation and space, are showing a significant level of growth. The globalization of maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) services, manpower cost competitiveness, the availability of talent, locational advantages and the presence of specialist capabilities combine to make India a potential global/regional MRO hub. India's MRO segment is estimated to grow at 10% and reach $2.6 billion by 2021. http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-business/tamil-nadu-allots-land-for-14-firms- to-make-aeroparts/article17370200.ece Back to Top Gulfstream Flies Second G600 Test Aircraft SAVANNAH, Ga., Feb. 24, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Gulfstream Aerospace Corp. today announced the second Gulfstream G600 completed its first flight, spending 4 hours and 26 minutes in the air and officially joining the flight-test campaign. "The addition of a second flight-test aircraft just 10 weeks after the first demonstrates the rigor and discipline inherent in our development programs and continues a cadence of accomplishments that will steadily move the G600 toward certification and entry into service," said Mark Burns, president, Gulfstream. "Each milestone we clear validates the significant investments we've made in research and development, our ground-based labs and our flight-test capabilities, allowing us to deliver on the promises we've made to our customers." The first G600 flight-test aircraft flew for the first time Dec. 17, 2016, and has already achieved more than 150 flight hours, to include flying 22 consecutive sorties without a single maintenance discrepancy. That aircraft is conducting flutter testing and expanding the flight envelope; the second G600 will soon begin flight-loads testing. Additionally, Gulfstream recently completed ultimate load testing of the G600 structural test article, a key step in the certification process. Gulfstream anticipates receiving type certification for the G600 from the Federal Aviation Administration in 2018, with customer deliveries scheduled for later the same year. http://www.aviationpros.com/news/12309284/gulfstream-flies-second-g600-test-aircraft Back to Top EASA safety report highlights worrying increase in serious incidents Despite 2016 proving to be the safest year ever in terms of the number of fatal accidents involving large commercial aircraft, the 2017 Preliminary Safety Review published this week by the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) highlights a sizable 2016 increase in the number of serious incidents involving aircraft operated by carriers from the 32 EASA member states. The EASA report notes that in 2016 there were only eight fatal accidents and 255 fatalities worldwide involving large commercial air transport (CAT) aircraft, which EASA defines as aircraft with take-off weights greater than 5,700kg (12,566lb). Two of the eight 2016 accidents occurred on cargo flights, the other six occurring on passenger flights. EASA member-state operators only accounted for one fatal CAT accident in 2016, the crash of a Bombardier CRJ200 operating a cargo flight in Sweden on 8 January which killed the two pilots flying the aircraft. Overall, aircraft operated by EASA member-state operators were involved in only 18 accidents in 2016 compared with 26 in 2015. The 18 accidents represented a 0.0003 percent accident rate for all EASA-state CAT flights, member states' carriers operating some 3 million flights in 2016. The EASA states' 2016 CAT accident rate was 43 percent down - i.e., 43 percent improved - from the year before. (ICAO's definition of accidents includes incidents in which people are seriously injured, or in which an aircraft is damaged or suffers structural failure, or goes missing, or is completely inaccessible.) But the number of serious incidents involving EASA-state carriers' large commercial aircraft jumped to 101 in 2016 from 56 the year before. This increase represented a serious-incident rate of 16 per million flights, a rate 38 percent higher than that in 2015. ICAO defines a serious incident as an occurrence, other than an accident, associated with the operation of an aircraft which affects or could affect the safety of operation. Additionally, the 101 serious incidents represented the highest number of such incidents involving EASA member-state carriers' aircraft in any year in the past decade. Worryingly for EASA, the 2016 number reversed a five-year declining - that is, improving - trend in both absolute annual numbers and the annual rate of serious incidents which its member states' carriers recorded from 2010 through 2015. EASA's 2017 Preliminary Safety Review contains the caveat that "the counting of accidents and serious incidents is not a good risk measure", and says "the introduction of the European Risk Classification Scheme in 2017 ... will help to provide a better picture of the existing safety risks". This scheme will do so by helping "to shift the focus to the probable potential harm of identified hazards to the European aviation system (risk level associated to hazards) instead of directly measuring the severity of a realized outcome (fatalities, injuries, damage)", according to EASA. That said, the EASA report highlights some worrying trends for its member states' carriers. Although the report notes "the number of occurrences (accidents and serious incidents) for all key risk areas, except for system failure and runway excursion, remains very similar to the average for the period 2007-2015; thus showing a stable pattern", it then provides bad news. "Considering the positive trend in the period 2007-2015, followed by that in the period 2015-2016, the key risk areas of system failure, airborne conflict and runway excursion show a negative change in 2016 (from stable to increasing or from decreasing to increasing)," the report declares. EASA's 2017 Preliminary Safety Review continues: "Aircraft Upset represents only 3 percent of the accidents and serious incidents involving an EASA member state operator in 2016. However, it continues to be the most fatal risk area for EASA member state operators. In 2016, the Preliminary Impact Assessment on "loss of control in-flight" indicated the need for specific actions in this area within the European Plan for Aviation Safety (EPAS). The EPAS is the key strategic document for improving aviation safety at [the] European Level." According to the report, 56.64 percent of the causal and contributory factors behind the accidents and serious incidents involving EASA member states' carriers between 2007 and 2016 originated in the area of flight operations. Technical factors accounted for 21.3 percent of the causal and contributory factors, with human factors accounting for another 8.53 percent. Air traffic management operations provided 5.87 percent of the causal and contributory factors and 4.49 percent resulted from aerodrome operations. Organizational factors accounted for 2.4 percent of the total and maintenance activities 0.77 percent. https://runwaygirlnetwork.com/2017/02/24/easa-safety-report-highlights-worrying- increase-in-serious-incidents/ Curt Lewis