The Responsibility of Command

The recently published report on the crash of the Polish Presidential flight to Smolensk in April last year makes very sorry reading. Not just because of the loss of life but also because of the many systemic failures it exposes. The English language version can be found here. In this short article I don’t want… Continue reading The Responsibility of Command

Interesting people, unusual flight plans…

Anna Kurlanc – Brace for impact! Anna Kurlanc is currently an R&D engineer at the Dutch Aerospace Laboratory (NLR) Air Transport Safety Institute (ATSI) What were you dreaming of becoming when you were a kid? This may sound strange, but aviation was never on my mind back then… Architect, journalist and press photographer were the… Continue reading Interesting people, unusual flight plans…