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Wed, Jan 09, 2019

Gone West: Former FAA Safety Official Tony Broderick

Passed Away December 30 At The Age Of 75

A former safety official at the FAA has Gone West. Anthony Broderick died Dec. 30 in Bealeton, VA, following a long illness at the age of 75.

Air Transport World reports that Tony, as he was widely known in industry circles, Joined the U.S. Department of Transportation in 1971. He moved to the FAA's Office of Environment and Energy High Altitude Pollution Program in 1976 thanks to his work in the area of ozone reduction.

Two years later, he transferred to the FAA's  regulation and certification (AVR) organization, now known as Aviation Safety. During the next 18 years—including the last eight as AVR's top official—he played central roles in several major regulatory initiatives, including the first Extended Range, or ETOPS, standards, the International Aviation Safety Assessment program, harmonization of US and European regulations, and the aviation rulemaking advisory committee process.

Broderick resigned from the FAA in 1996. He had been the Associate Administrator of Regulation and Certification, and his resignation was associated with the fallout from the May 1996 crash of ValuJet Flight 592 and subsequent Congressional and public scrutiny of FAA's airline oversight.

"The events ... mandate that you make major visible changes to improve the public confidence in the safety of our transportation system," Broderick wrote in his resignation letter to FAA Administrator David Hinson. "My leaving will provide you with the maximum amount of flexibility to make those changes."

Broderick continued his work in the aviation industry, consulting for companies like Airbus, Atlas Air and FedEx. He retired in 2014.

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