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SMS: FAA Folly or Beneficial Concept?
Feedback on my safety management system article in AIN’s March 2011 issue

Feedback on my safety management system article in AIN’s March 2011 issue exhibits the mixed feelings that business aviation users continue to have on the subject of SMS. One of the elements of the article that readers didn't like is the photo of the Citation CJ2 that ran off the runway at Atlantic City's Bader Field on May 15, 2005. The obvious conclusion, these readers say, is that no SMS would have prevented that accident.

"Right on page 36," wrote pilot Terry Walby, “there is a picture of a Citation jet that overran the runway with the caption that reads, ‘…could have benefited from a Safety Management System.’ Really? Tell me what steps in the SMS risk assessment procedure would have prevented that accident?”

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Matt Thurber
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