Every day, around 44,000 airline flights take off and land in 29 million square miles of American airspace. All of this translates to around 3 million domestic airlines passengers transiting the national airspace system daily. By and large, all of these flights happen without incident. And when incidents do occur, there are procedures, protocols, and tools to in place to mitigate or abate the effects of the incident.
This blog is designed to highlight those effective practices in the aviation industry for organizations of all types. While these practices of the aviation industry may not have complete applicability to non-aviation organizations, the intent here is to discuss them in an easily understandable manner to support organizational goals of excellence in operations and preparedness / readiness for obstacles to operations.
I will discuss all of these effective tools under the disciplines of Communication, Decision Making, and Leadership in an effort to articulate everything in a way that may prove useful or insightful for your organization. If your objective is to become a “High Reliability Organization,” the content here will prove useful in support of that – more on “High Reliability Organizations” later.
Between February 13, 2009 and January 28, 2025, there was only 1 passenger fatality on commercial air travel in the United States. This blog will explore the why and how of this statistic. If you have ever watched the United States Navy Blue Angels or the United States Air Force Thunderbirds fly the precision shows that they do so often, this blog will explore the why and how they do it. How do planes land on aircraft carriers at night, in bad weather, and in rough sea conditions? This blog will explore the why and how of that. And lastly, if you have ever wondered how many “stakeholders” there are invested in the safe operation of an aircraft in flight from Point A to Point B, this blog will explain this network of stakeholders and how they work together to send airplanes with a few hundred people more than seven miles above the earth moving at not too far below the speed of sound effectively several thousand times a day.
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