Posts about stuff relating to airports
"Obvious Risk" Strikes Again!
Actually, it hasn’t. In fact, it is the opposite.
In today’s article, I’m going to discuss a case where the risk has been deemed “not obvious” and the defendants have had to pay up. The defendants in this case are the airport operator, the aircraft operator and the ground handler. There is also some complex discussion on shared liability that is, despite its potential boring-ness, important to understand.
Talking Taxiway Safety....Again
Okay, I'm going to claim, tongue-in-cheek, that I told you so. Two years ago, I suggested that the next global initiative should be Taxiway Safety. While Runway Safety was getting and continues to get its due attention, there had been a spate of ground collisions involving large jets at US Airports.
Image credit - (cc) Doug Letterman
Aircraft Tie Down Information
Thanks to a recent addition to the SKYbrary website, this old article from the NZ CAA came to my attention. Both the Skybrary information and CAA article are good resources for a diminishing (but not gone) facility found on Australian aerodromes.