AAP Group Update. Air Safety Week 2009 Joint Safety Meeting

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1 AAP Group Update Air Safety Week 2009 Joint Safety Meeting

2 Captain Ray Gélinas - Chairman Air Canada Jazz Chad Balentine - Senior Staff Engineer

3 Accident Investigation Board Dangerous Goods Programs Safety Information Analysis Program (separate briefing to follow by Marc Champion) Chad Balentine Senior Staff Engineer Don McClure Air Safety Coordinator

4 AAP Group Chairman Ray Gelinas-ACJ Director, Safety Information Analysis Brit Etzold-NWA Chairman, Accident Investigation Board Mike Bender-FDX Director Dangerous Goods Mark Rogers-UAL Project Team Leader Industry Partnership Programs Marc Champion-UAL

5 Accident Investigation Board Captain Mike Bender FedEx Chairman, AIB Chad Balentine Senior Staff Engineer

6 Accident Investigation Board-Update Very Busy Year ALPA is currently a Party or Observer to 22 investigations Captain Paul Brady-EGL AIB Vice-Chair attended IFALPA AAP Meetings in Bali in the Fall and Casablanca in the Spring. ALPA Accident Investigation Courses are now accredited by IFALPA. Formal IFALPA accreditation process to begin in the Fall starting with the AIB members. AIB held a meeting in Herndon on April 15 and held another earlier this week...

7 Accident Investigation Board-Update Accident/ Incident Highlights Continental B737- DEN ALPA is a Party and is on 7 of the 9 Groups Sent AIB Vice-Chairman Paul Brady, EGL as the AIB Member assigned to the accident

8 Accident Investigation Board-Update Accident/ Incident Highlights Colgan Q400- BUF ALPA is a Party and is on all 10 Groups AIB Member Pete Frey, DAL is the ALPA Party Coordinator since Colgan was new to ALPA Jeff Mee, CAL provided assistance as the AIB Member assigned to the accident Public Hearing was held in May 2009

9 Accident Investigation Board-Update Accident/ Incident Highlights Fed Ex 80, MD-11, NAR ALPA is an Advisor to the NTSB Accredited Representative ICAO Annex 13 Investigation Sent 2 FedEx pilots to Narita, including AIB Chairman Mike Bender to assist the Japanese and NTSB with the investigation

10 Dangerous Goods Program Mark Rogers, United Director, Dangerous Goods Program Rick Kessel Senior Staff Engineer

11 Lithium Battery Update Congressional Testimony in May PHMSA Reauthorization Bill now contains language in support of ALPA goals Promised Full Regulation of Lithium Ion and Lithium Metal Batteries with additional restrictions

12 Wheelchair Batteries Several Wheelchair Battery Fires recently Difficult Problem to solve due to many different kinds of wheelchairs and user interfaces Fire usually starts due to inadvertent activation in transit

13 Wheelchair Battery Fire

14 Other Dangerous Goods Topics Magnetized Material Explosive Classification Completely new scheme for Limited Quantities Additional Work on Cylinder Safety and Compatibility Potential Changes to Pilot Notification Requirements Fuel Cells

15 AAP Chair Activities Instructed at BSS (Course Director) in SAT in February. Attended IFALPA Conference in NZ in March as IFALPA RVP Can/Arctic. Chaired IFALPA Conference Committee C in NZ Instructed at AI2 in April. Instructed at AI3 in GFK in June. Attended the IFALPA AAP meeting in Casablanca in May as the ALPA-Canada AAP representative. Overseeing activities for the Jazz MEC as the Chief Accident Investigator. Working with staff & EASC to oversee budget and re-allocate funding where possible.

16 AAP Chair working with staff on monitoring 09 budget. AAP Chair attended January and April SOC meetings in Herndon, VA. SIA team continues work on ASIAS. Various FOQA/ASAP/ASIAS meetings attended by Brit Etzold, Marc Champion and Hank Yaap. Hank Yaap retired in March Marc Champion appointed by Captain Kay to replace him in April 2009.

17 Working with EASC to re-allocate AAP funds to allow the Group work to continue in Went from 30 to 5 Projects We are anticipating restoring some of the funding Worked with staff to close some projects. Recommended closing down Accident Survival Directorate. Recommended AXS projects be closed, or transferred to ADO and AGE as that is where most of the work falls under. (Some of this already done!)

18 Steve Erickson continues working on JIMDAT and CAST activities. AIB continues to work numerous accidents. Here are just a few: DAL 18 11/26/08 ASA /1/09 UAL 267 2/25/08 EGL /21/2009 UAL /20/08

19 2009 has been interesting so far! We have had some staff turnover, but we have filled the staff responsibilities quite nicely! We have a great group of pilot volunteers and we are up to the challenge! We look forward to a productive last half of the year and a great Thanks to all the volunteers and staff who help make this look easy!