Flight Safety Information - April 2, 2026 No. 066 In This Issue : Incident: ANA B772 at Sapporo on Apr 1st 2026, engine shut down in flight : Incident: Wizz A21N at Bucharest on Apr 1st 2026, some fumes in cabin : American Airlines Flight Makes Emergency Landing After Crews Report Plane Has a 'Steering Issue' : Near-collision at California airport sparks overhaul of safety rules : ASDE-X Failed To Alert in LaGuardia Runway Collision : Evacuating an airplane takes too long, researchers are warning : FAA fines companies $430K for sending unsafe hazmat shipments to airlines : Lawsuit: "Exploding" Stumptown Coffee burns Alaska Airlines flight attendant mid-flight : D.C.-area ATC evacuations followed 2025 smoke event which injured controllers : Jeju Air strengthens data-driven safety to pursue IOSA recertification (Korea) : Vacancy: Inspector of Air Accidents (Operations) – closing 3 May 2026 (UK) : Calendar of Events Incident: ANA B772 at Sapporo on Apr 1st 2026, engine shut down in flight An ANA All Nippon Airways Boeing 777-200, registration JA745A performing flight NH-65 from Tokyo Haneda to Sapporo New Chitose (Japan) with 317 passengers and 10 crew, was on approach to Sapporo when the crew received indications for high engine (PW4090) oil temperature and shut the engine down. The aircraft continued for a safe landing. The airline reported it was a normal landing, an investigation into the cause is underway. The aircraft is still on the ground in Sapporo about 12 hours after landing. https://avherald.com/h?article=537494ff&opt=0 Incident: Wizz A21N at Bucharest on Apr 1st 2026, some fumes in cabin A Wizz Air Airbus A321-200N, registration HA-LGL performing flight W4-3141 from Bucharest Otopeni (Romania) to Rome Fiumicino (Italy), was climbing out of Otopeni's runway 08R when the crew requested to stop climb at 5000 feet reporting they had some fumes in the cabin. The aircraft positioned for a return to Otopeni and landed safely on runway 08R about 20 minutes after departure. A replacement A21N registration 9H-WMD reached Rome with a delay of about 8 hours. The occurrence aircraft is still on the ground about 12 hours after landing back. https://avherald.com/h?article=53748f31&opt=0 American Airlines Flight Makes Emergency Landing After Crews Report Plane Has a 'Steering Issue' An airline spokesperson confirmed the aircraft landed safely on April 1 and was pulled in for inspection by maintenance crews An American Eagle flight made an emergency landing in Philadelphia on Wednesday due to a reported nose gear steering issue The plane landed safely with no injuries to the 65 passengers and four crew members on board, according to an American Airlines spokesperson Passengers continued to Portland, Maine, on a replacement aircraft and landed nearly seven hours after the original departure An American Airlines flight traveling across the East Coast was forced to make an emergency landing in Philadelphia after crews experienced a “steering issue,” according to reports. On Wednesday, April 1, American Eagle flight 5422, operated by PSA Airlines, departed the Washington Reagan National Airport in Washington, D.C., around 9:15 a.m. local time, per FlightAware. The aircraft, a Bombardier CRJ200, was scheduled to land at the Portland International Jetport in Maine in under two hours. However, about 30 minutes into the flight, crews diverted to the Philadelphia International Airport (PHL), according to track logs obtained by FlightAware. The flight path appears to show the aircraft nearly reaching the New Jersey and New York border before turning around back towards PHL. The aircraft appears to have made an additional circle around the facility before coming in for a landing. In a statement shared with PEOPLE, an American Airlines spokesperson said the plane was forced to divert due to a “mechanical issue.” The company confirmed the aircraft landed safely and was towed to the gate, “where it was taken out of service to be inspected by our maintenance team.” In a previous statement shared with local outlet Fox 29, the airline said the flight was "experiencing a nose gear steering issue.” A spokesperson for the Federal Aviation Administration, who is investigating the incident, tells PEOPLE the plane landed at 10:20 a.m. local time, after the crew “reported a hydraulics issue.” According to the Spartan College of Aeronautics and Technology, aviation hydraulic systems are used to help control and manage equipment such as brakes, flaps, thrust reversers, flight control and landing gear. Hydraulic issues could include fluid leaks, seal failures, pressure loss or overheating. No injuries were reported to the 65 passengers and four crew members on board the aircraft. The airline says customers later boarded a replacement aircraft and continued to Portland. FlightAware reports the plane landed just before 4:00 p.m. local time — nearly seven hours after its initial departure. Never miss a story — sign up for PEOPLE's free daily newsletter to stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer, from celebrity news to compelling human interest stories. “We never want to disrupt our customers’ travel plans and we apologize for the inconvenience,” the airline’s statement says. https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/american-airlines-flight-makes-emergency-212515129.html Near-collision at California airport sparks overhaul of safety rules The Federal Aviation Administration cited a close call at Hollywood Burbank Airport when it announced a major change last month to a safety regulation concerning helicopters and airplanes. On March 18, the FAA announced that it would no longer allow air traffic controllers and pilots to rely on visual separation to avoid collision. Air traffic controllers will need to use radar to determine the distance between airplanes and helicopters to keep them separated. Shawn Pruchnicki, a former commercial airline pilot and former Air Line Pilots Association chief accident investigator, said the change shifts the responsibility for keeping aircraft apart from pilots to air traffic controllers. “When the weather is good, [air traffic controllers] could put the burden of separation upon the pilots and just say, ‘Hey, do you see this airplane out there?’ And most of the time we do,” Pruchnicki told SFGATE. “Now the burden has to stay with the controller, which means the controller has to keep a larger spread away from the helicopter and the airplane.” On March 2, air traffic controllers had cleared a Beechcraft 99 private plane to land at Burbank when it “conflicted” with a helicopter that was flying through the approach path, the FAA said. The helicopter then made a right-hand turn to avoid the plane. (In announcing the change, the FAA also cited as an example a near collision between an American Airlines flight and a police helicopter on Feb. 27 at San Antonio International Airport.) The new rule comes just a week after the National Transportation Safety Board recommended that the FAA prohibit helicopter operations near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport when flights were using certain runways. The agency had met in January to discuss the January 2025 midair collision between an Army Black Hawk helicopter and an American Airlines Bombardier CRJ700 near the airport that killed all 64 people on the airplane, and all three crew members on the helicopter. At the meeting, NTSB Chair Jennifer Homendy expressed concern about the proximity of Hollywood Burbank Airport to Van Nuys Airport, a busy airport for helicopters and private aircraft located about 10 miles away. “Commercial airlines have called me to say the next midair [collision] is going to be at Burbank and nobody at FAA is paying attention to us,” Homendy said at the time. Pruchnicki said the FAA needs to take it one step further and ban all helicopters that aren’t landing at an airport, to prevent shortcuts through surrounding airspace and to avoid flying near airports altogether. Both the NTSB and Hollywood Burbank Airport declined to comment on the significance of the FAA rule change. Pruchnicki said Burbank’s level of congestion, its proximity to other airports and the airspace’s construction have led to a “significantly eroded” margin of safety. “Now, does it mean that it’s so eroded that there’s the potential for a crash every single day? No,” he said. “Does it mean that the general public should not get on an airliner if it’s going there? No. Does it mean that this airport has a higher risk than a huge majority of the airports in the United States? Absolutely.” https://www.sfgate.com/travel/article/faa-air-safety-rule-22184196.php ASDE-X Failed To Alert in LaGuardia Runway Collision ARFF firetruck lacked transponder, NTSB confirms LaGuardia Airport’s surface detection system failed to generate an alert as air traffic control cleared an aircraft rescue and firefighting (ARFF) vehicle to cross Runway 4 in front of an Air Canada Express CRJ900 that was descending through 100 feet on final approach, according to information presented by NTSB Chair Jennifer Homendy and investigator in charge Doug Brazy. Operating as Jazz Aviation Flight 8646, the CRJ900 collided with the ARFF vehicle on Runway 4 at night on March 22, killing the two pilots and injuring 41, including passengers, cabin crew, and ARFF vehicle occupants. The investigation is ongoing. Last week, the NTSB took possession of the cockpit voice recorder (CVR) and flight data recorder (FDR) and transported them to NTSB headquarters in Washington for analysis. The CVR contained more than 25 hours of audio across four channels, while the FDR contained approximately 80 hours of data. An NTSB CVR group is transcribing the accident flight recording. Brazy presented a summary of events captured on the CVR during the final three minutes of the recording, with all times referenced to the end of the recording. At the 3:07 mark, the approach controller instructed the crew to contact LaGuardia Tower. At 2:45, the crew lowered the landing gear and, at 2:22, checked in with the tower, which cleared Flight 8646 to land on Runway 4 at 2:17, advising the crew that they were number two for landing. The crew set flaps to 30 degrees at 1:52 and to 45 degrees at 1:33. At 1:26, a TAWS callout indicated 1,000 feet agl. The crew confirmed the landing checklist was complete at 1:12. At 0:54, the crew acknowledged that the aircraft was 500 feet agl and on a stable approach. At 1:03, an airport vehicle made a radio transmission to the tower; that transmission was stepped on by another radio transmission whose source had not yet been identified. The critical sequence began at 0:40 , when the tower asked which vehicle needed to cross a runway. At 0:28, truck one—the ARFF vehicle—transmitted to the tower; the tower acknowledged at 0:26. At 0:25, truck one requested to cross Runway 4 at Taxiway Delta. At 0:20, the tower cleared the ARFF vehicle to cross Runway 4 at Taxiway Delta. One second later, TAWS indicated the aircraft was 100 feet agl. At 0:17, truck one read back the runway crossing clearance. At 0:14, the 50-foot TAWS callout occurred, followed by the 30-foot callout at 0:12, at which point the tower simultaneously instructed a Frontier Airlines flight to hold position. The 20- and 10-foot callouts followed at 0:11 and 0:10, respectively. At 0:09, the tower instructed truck one to stop. At 0:08, a sound consistent with the aircraft’s landing gear contacting the runway was captured on the recording. At 0:06, controls were transferred from the first officer, who had been flying, to the captain. At 0:04, the tower again instructed truck one to stop. The recording ended at 0:00. The ARFF vehicles had been dispatched to respond to United Airlines Flight 2384, which was at the gate following two aborted takeoffs and a reported smell of fumes or smoke in the cabin. Other ARFF vehicles were positioned behind truck one but did not begin to cross the runway. LaGuardia (KLGA) is equipped with ASDE-X, a safety system that allows controllers to track the surface movement of aircraft and vehicles. An analysis by the FAA’s technical center found that the system did not generate an alert before the collision. Homendy quoted the analysis at the briefing: “ASDE-X did not generate an alert due to the close proximity of vehicles merging and unmerging near the runway, resulting in the inability to create a track of high confidence.” The ASDE-X replay showed two radar returns on Taxiway Delta. Truck one carried no transponder and was therefore tracked by radar rather than by transponder signal, but neither return was shown crossing onto the runway. Homendy said there was no indication any of the ARFF vehicles at KLGA were equipped with transponders. The runway status lights appeared to be functioning in the ASDE-X replay, pending verification by FAA technical operations personnel. Two controllers were in the tower cab at the time of the collision: a local controller and a controller in charge. The local controller, who manages active runways and the surrounding airspace, had signed on at 22:45 with a shift scheduled to end at 06:45. The controller in charge, responsible for overall safety of operations, had signed on at 22:30 and was simultaneously performing the duties of the clearance delivery position. It is unclear who was performing the duties of the ground controller, responsible for managing aircraft and vehicle movements on taxiways, as of the March 24 briefing, with conflicting information still being reconciled. Homendy said the two-controller “midnight shift” configuration is standard operating procedure at KLGA and common practice across the national airspace, but noted that the NTSB has previously raised concerns about fatigue during the midnight shift. She said there is no indication that fatigue was a factor in this accident. Homendy cautioned against attributing the accident to controller distraction, calling it a high-workload environment and noting that several questions about staffing and concurrent operations remained unanswered. “We rarely, if ever, investigate a major accident where it was one failure,” she said. “When something goes wrong, that means many, many things went wrong.” Interviews with the local controller were scheduled to begin the afternoon of March 24. A preliminary report is expected within 30 days of the accident. A final report with a probable cause determination is expected in 12 to 24 months. https://www.ainonline.com/aviation-news/aerospace/2026-03-31/asde-x-failed-alert-laguardia-runway-collision Evacuating an airplane takes too long, researchers are warning The evacuation of passengers from an aircraft should take no longer than 90 seconds. However, the growing proportion of older passengers is making this target harder to hit. How can airlines speed up their emergency procedure? Evacuation of an aircraft should take no longer than 90 seconds, but an ageing society is making this target harder to achieve. Ninety seconds is all the time you have to get off the plane if there's an emergency. But research shows that an ageing society is increasing the time it takes to empty an airplane. Evacuation times from planes increase with the age of passengers, an international research team wrote in the journal AIP Advances. In practical terms, that means the internationally prescribed evacuation times are now hardly achievable when there is a high proportion of older passengers. Under rules set by the US aviation authority FAA and the European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA), an aircraft must be fully evacuated within 90 seconds in an emergency. However, the new study shows that this target was not met under realistic conditions with seniors on board in any of 27 simulated scenarios. Even in the most favourable case, passengers needed 141 seconds to leave the aircraft and reach the ground, almost a minute longer than the official requirement. The scientists led by Chenyang Zhang of the University of Calgary in Canada examined the evacuation of an Airbus A320, one of the most commonly used aircraft types worldwide. The scenario was based on a fire in both engines. In such a case, the emergency exits directly above the wings are impassable, leaving only the four exits at the front and rear of the cabin. For the study, the researchers used computer-based models and industry-standard simulation software to map human movement behaviour in the narrow cabin. They combined three different cabin layouts with three different shares of passengers aged over 60. The results show that both the percentage of seniors and their exact seating distribution significantly influence evacuation time. The delays are explained, the study said, by the physical and mental characteristics of older people. In the simulations, seniors were assumed to have a significantly slower walking speed. Cognitive impairments in old age could also reduce situational awareness and slow decision-making in stressful situations. Declining fine motor skills can also make it harder to get out of seats. The longest evacuation time was measured at 218.5 seconds in a densely seated cabin with 80% older passengers. To minimize the risks, the authors propose various measures. Airlines could seat older passengers near exits or adapt cabin architecture with wider aisles and optimized handholds. Special safety briefings for seniors could also help shorten reaction times in an emergency. https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/evacuating-airplane-takes-too-long-042219226.html FAA fines companies $430K for sending unsafe hazmat shipments to airlines Verizon penalized for improper packaging for batteries Shippers are required to follow strict rules for shipping hazardous materials by air, which can pose a risk to the aircraft during flight and cargo handlers on the ground if not properly packaged. (Photo: Jim Allen/FreightWaves) The Federal Aviation Administration on Tuesday said it intends to fine three shippers, including Verizon, a combined total of nearly $430,000 for not following rules for shipping hazardous materials by air. Verizon Communications (NYSE: VZ) is potentially subject to a $70,500 civil penalty for allegedly tendering three shipments of lithium-ion batteries to FedEx Corp. (NYSE: FDX) in May 2024 without the required classification, description, packaging, markings, and labels. The batteries also were not in the proper condition for transport and Verizon didn’t provide required emergency response information to the carrier, the FAA said in a news release. Currently, there are few means to physically check for undeclared lithium batteries, posing one of the biggest threats to flight safety due to their fire risk. United Parcel Service (NYSE: UPS) was also the victim of a dangerous shipping situation. The FAA said it has proposed a $260,000 civil penalty against World Event Promotions of Coral Gables, Florida, for allegedly violating hazardous materials regulations. The agency said WEP offered three shipments of battery packs containing lithium-ion batteries to UPS for transport by air. In one instance, employees at the UPS sorting facility in Ontario, California, discovered the shipment was smoking, with a burn hole in the package. A United Nations warning sticker for lithium battery shipments. (Image: Shutterstock/Brett Hondow) The FAA alleges the materials were not accompanied by the required shipping paperwork and lacked the same information as the Verizon shipments. The agency also alleged that the state of charge of the lithium batteries exceeded 30% of their rated capacity. The FAA has also notified Devinaire Industries, based in Hillsboro, Oregon, that it intends to fine the company $97,500 for non-compliant shipments on two flights in January 2025. Debonair accepted two shipments of radiopharmaceutical materials for transportation by air. Drugs that contain radioactive substances are classified as hazardous material. The FAA alleges Devinaire failed to ensure its employees who accepted these shipments were trained in transporting hazmat and the shipping papers didn’t include a description of the physical and chemical form of the radioactive material. Regulators also claim the company didn’t keep the shipping papers and information provided to the pilots on file for the required amount of time. The companies each have 30 days to respond to enforcement letters. The FAA penalized three companies in September for violating hazmat shipping regulations with lithium batteries transported by FedEx and UPS. https://www.freightwaves.com/news/faa-fines-companies-430k-for-sending-unsafe-hazmat-shipments-to-airlines Lawsuit: "Exploding" Stumptown Coffee burns Alaska Airlines flight attendant mid-flight PORTLAND, Ore. (KATU) — Portland-based Stumptown Coffee has a history of exploding at high altitudes and burned an Alaska Airlines flight attendant in 2024, according to a lawsuit filed Friday. The lawsuit, filed on behalf of Victoria Waldron, alleges she was badly burned on an Alaska Airlines flight when an onboard coffee maker catastrophically failed in the galley of the plane. The incident happened about 30 minutes before landing in Phoenix on April 1, 2024. Waldron said she was pregnant at the time and that the coffee burned her chest and several other areas of her body. She said she has had permanent scarring since the incident, causing emotional distress, and may need further surgery to address the issue. According to court documents, at least nine other flight attendants had been burned in similar incidents prior to her injury and that the coffee packaging is to blame. The Association of Flight Attendants union and Waldron’s attorneys claim Stumptown failed to design, test or validate its packaging at high altitudes. "When the packaging interacted with the existing onboard coffee makers, the result was explosive failure and serious injury," the lawsuit states. The suit goes on to claim that, prior to December 2023, Alaska served Starbucks coffee that did not have similar issues. Alaska and Stumptown announced the partnership in a press release in October 2023. The lawsuit also alleges Alaska Airlines contacted Stumptown about the complaints no later than Feb. 20, 2024, and that Stumptown failed to take action. The lawsuit does not seek a specific monetary amount but requests a jury trial and damages for, among other things, physical pain and suffering, scarring and disfigurement, medical expenses, and lost earnings. The suit was filed by the Choate Law Firm in Juneau, Alaska, and filed Friday in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington in Seattle. https://katu.com/news/local/flight-attendant-sues-stumptown-coffee-exploded-and-burned-her-victoria-waldron-alaska-airlines-seattle-washington-juneau-alaska D.C.-area ATC evacuations followed 2025 smoke event which injured controllers A year before two recent evacuations of a Washington, D.C-area air traffic control facility, a previously unreported incident caused smoke to enter the control room but did not result in an evacuation. The April 2025 event left multiple controllers with health issues that resulted in the loss of their medical certificates, which are required to work traffic. The April 2025 event, which The Air Current confirmed through interviews with people familiar with the episode, occurred under similar circumstances to the recent events on March 13 and 27. Smoke filled the control room at the Potomac Terminal Radar Approach Control (TRACON) facility after employees began smelling a strange odor, but emergency services were never called. The incident raised serious concerns internally regarding the Federal Aviation Administration’s incident response plans, the familiar people said. “We take the health and wellbeing of our workforce seriously,” an FAA spokesperson said in an emailed statement. “That’s why we evacuated Potomac TRACON on March 13 and March 27 due to a strong chemical smell, as we do when events like this occur at any air traffic control facility.” The agency did not answer questions when asked about the April 2025 event. “The FAA evaluates lessons learned from every event to see if we can improve our processes. The equipment outages underline the immediate need to replace our aging equipment and give our air traffic controllers the facilities and technology they need to do their work.” The Potomac TRACON, which is located next to the FAA’s nationwide air traffic command center in Warrenton, Virginia, is one of the newest ATC facilities in the country but has been unable to escape disruptive equipment issues that have thrust the NAS into the national spotlight. Built in 2002, the Potomac TRACON is one of the FAA’s preeminent next generation air traffic facilities, featuring the newest equipment and design features. It consolidated controllers from five different TRACON facilities in the area under one roof, streamlining traffic flows in one of the busiest airspaces in the country. The two evacuations last month each prompted prolonged ground stops for Washington’s Reagan National (DCA) and Dulles International (IAD) airports as well as the Baltimore-Washington Airport (BWI) and the primary commercial airport in Richmond, Virginia (RIC). The March 13 event, which paused traffic for more than two hours, was caused by a faulty voice switch which burned up, according to Fauquier County Fire Department reports obtained through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). Voice switches are the panels located at every ATC workstation which allow controllers to toggle between different frequencies and conduct internal coordination calls. Records show that patients evacuating the building presented with “nausea, dizziness, and vomiting,” and responders ultimately assessed 36 people from that single event. Controllers’ careers are dependent on maintaining a medical certification from the FAA, which can be lost for any number of health reasons and for varying periods of time, ranging from temporary restrictions to a permanent loss. Separate FOIA records show that the March 27 event was caused by an “overheated battery back-up” found in the break room and that employees presented with complaints of “cough, dizziness, and headaches.” A union email reviewed by TAC said that the National Air Traffic Controllers’ (NATCA) Wi-Fi equipment was identified as the ultimate cause. The evacuation that followed resulted in a 90-minute ground stop for the same airports. A NATCA spokesperson did not respond to a request for comment. The evacuations during both incidents last month were in part prompted by the severity of the April 2025 event, people familiar with the matter said, and are now standard for these types of events. No records exist for the April 2025 event because emergency services were not called. Evacuations are especially challenging for the 24/7 operation at an air traffic facility, where even a short interruption can cause rippling delays and cancellations for hours. On March 23, the tower at Newark Liberty International Airport was evacuated after a burning smell began emitting from an elevator — the same day as the fatal runway collision at New York’s LaGuardia Airport. On Oct. 10, Atlanta International Airport’s control tower was evacuated after a fire alarm was pulled for a gas smell, compounding delays that had been induced by a government shutdown that affected air traffic controllers. Equipment issues can impact operations even if controllers aren’t evacuated. Newark in particular has been plagued with repeat radar and communications issues over the last two years after the control of its airspace was relocated from a facility on Long Island to Philadelphia. Potomac and the rest of the NAS’s facilities have slipped into a state of physical decline. U.S. facilities that control aircraft arriving and departing at airports have an average age of about 36 years with some as old as 60 years, according to a 2023 FAA report. Enroute facilities, which control aircraft in cruise flight, have an average age of 56 to 64 years, the report said. No replacement plans existed for either type of facility until the FAA rolled out its latest modernization plan last year. As a part of its latest effort to modernize the NAS, the FAA has moved to replace the voice switches which were the culprit of the March 13 incident, most of which are decades old. The agency spokesperson said the FAA has installed 34 new digital voice switches across the country of the 462 it plans to replace by 2028. About $2 billion of the $12.5 billion appropriated by Congress last year for ATC modernization is set aside for facility consolidation. Though congressionally mandated, consolidation remains a thorny political topic for labor unions and some members of Congress looking to protect jobs in their areas and avoid the forced relocation of controllers. https://theaircurrent.com/feed/dispatches/dc-potomac-tracon-atc-evacuations-smoke-injured-controllers/ Jeju Air strengthens data-driven safety to pursue IOSA recertification (Korea) Jeju Air said on the 2nd that it strengthened a data-centered safety operation system to prepare for risk-based IOSA (IATA Operational Safety Audit) certification. At Jeju Air's Seoul branch in Gangseo-gu, Seoul, on the 31st, Jeju Air flight, maintenance, and cabin quality auditors and working-level staff share views on key improvement tasks and case applications at the 2026 Companywide Quality Assurance Workshop. /Courtesy of Jeju Air Risk-based IOSA is an audit system introduced by the International Air Transport Association (IATA) to enhance the effectiveness of aviation safety management by analyzing airline-specific safety data and checking risk factors. The certification preparation was carried out by identifying risk factors in advance based on 779 quality audits conducted last year across all business areas, including flight operations, maintenance, cabin service, flight dispatch, and transportation. Jeju Air also checked environmental, organizational, and systemic factors using HFACS (Human Factors Analysis and Classification System) to prevent human error. Amazon Nightmare Comes True: Shoppers Canceling Prime For This Clever Hack Online Shopping Tools Jeju Air plans to use this as a basis to receive IOSA recertification. Jeju Air obtained IOSA certification in 2009 and has maintained it by renewing it every two years. To share data analysis results and improve execution, Jeju Air held a workshop at the end of last month attended by companywide quality auditors and working-level staff to review key improvement cases. A Jeju Air official said, "We are minimizing safety blind spots through precise, data-based analysis," adding, "Through preparations for risk-based IOSA certification, we will build a safety management system that exceeds global standards and continue to strengthen customer trust and safe operations." https://biz.chosun.com/en/en-industry/2026/04/02/WT5KQ7KRJJFW7CXEUHQGS6GFVE/ Vacancy: Inspector of Air Accidents (Operations) – closing 3 May 2026 (UK) The Air Accidents Investigation Branch is recruiting for an Inspector of Air Accidents (Operations) From: Air Accidents Investigation Branch Published 2 April 2026 Can you work under pressure and are you comfortable working in a team or independently? Do you have extensive and recent professional flying experience, along with knowledge of civilian aircraft operations and aviation in general? Have you got excellent verbal, written and presentation skills? If so, we’d love to hear from you! 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