"Keeping confidential evidence collected by accident
investigators or from incident reporting systems can only lead to
enhanced safety since witnesses will be able to talk more freely
and without concern that their evidence may be used in judicial
proceedings."
Source: Stuart Matthews, President and CEO of
the Flight Safety Foundation, after the FSF approved an amendment
of Annex 13 Aircraft Accident and Incident Investigation that
includes new provisions for the protection of safety information
from inappropriate use, mainly, the use of safety information in
legal proceedings against operational personnel.
Control Display Unit Uses crew entered flight plan
information, airplane systems data and data from the navigation
database to calculate airplane present position and pitch, roll and
thrust commands required to fly an optimum flight profile.
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