FSF’s Safety Message in North Africa

The Flight Safety Foundation's CAAG (Controlled Flight Into Terrain and Approach and Landing Accident Reduction Action Group) brought its internationally regarded Approach and Landing Accident Reduction (ALAR) Tool Kit workshop to Tripoli, Libya recently. Libyan aviation professionals said that this was the first time a non-governmental international aviation safety event has been held in Libya. The workshop was hosted by Afriqiyah Airways of Libya and organized by Capt. Samir Abussada, a Libyan commercial pilot. More than 50 aviation professionals from Chad, Egypt, Libya and Tunisia attended the workshop. They represented civil aviation authorities, air traffic management organizations and several airlines in the region. The CAAG workshops provide recommendations on how to reduce the risk of approach and landing accidents through the use of the ALAR Tool Kit, a user-friendly CD-based product containing PowerPoint briefings, videos, checklists, and reference material. The tool kit is a consolidation of the data, products, findings, conclusions and recommendations of 11 years of work by over 300 international aviation safety experts. This was the 30th ALAR workshop that the Foundation has presented worldwide. Edward Stimpson, chairman of the FSF board of governors, said "aviation safety knows no boundaries, and this industry benefits as a whole when safety tools such as the ALAR Tool Kit can be spread as widely as possible."