A 17-year-old years recommendation to improve the quality of decision-making on the part of Canadian pilots has not been advanced far enough to reduce aviation risk, the Transportation Safety Board of Canada recently suggested. On May 18, 1998, a single-engine…
An investigation into the sinking of a fishing vessel on Lake Superior “highlights several factors as to risk” in Canada’s commercial fishing industry, the Transportation Safety Board of Canada said in a recent report. TSB released Wednesday a report into…
The Transportation Safety Board of Canada is calling on the federal government to make cockpit voice recorders and flight data recorders mandatory on more aircraft and to allow use of the data in safety management systems. “In Canada, only multi-engine,…
Canada’s transport minister says federal legislation mandating locomotive voice and video recorders would, if passed into law, give the rail industry “opportunities to mitigate risks” but an opposition MP recently warned such a law could violate employees right to privacy.…
The Transportation Safety Board of Canada reiterated Wednesday a 13-year-old recommendation that the federal government mandate safety management systems for small passenger enterprises. TSB released Wednesday an investigation report into the fatal capsizing Oct. 25, 2015 of the Leviathan II…
There is an increased risk of tired railway engineers reporting for duty if a rail operator’s “fatigue management procedures do not provide opportunities for potentially fatigued employees to remove themselves from eligibility for duty without fear of discipline,” the Transportation…
Transport Canada needs to update its regulations on flight recorders, Transportation Safety Board of Canada suggested Monday. The federal government’s response to a recommendation from a 1993 accident that killed seven is “still unsatisfactory,” TSB argued Monday in a tweet.…
The Transportation Safety Board of Canada is reiterating its call for railways to ship flammable liquids in “more robust tank cars” after an accident near Edmonton that resulted in the spill of more than 80,000 litres of flammable styrene monomer.…
A recent amendment to Ontario’s Forest Fires Prevention Act now stipulates that railway corporations are liable for damages related to fires originating within 15 metres of the centre line of their tracks, while members of the Ontario Securities Commission are…
A misinterpretation of an instruction from a ground controller, on the part of air crew on an Embraer 190, was one cause of a runway incursion in Toronto that forced an approaching Airbus 320 to pull up and go around,…
The use of child restraint systems should be mandatory on commercial aircraft in Canada, the Transportation Safety Board of Canada reiterated Thursday in a report on an accident that injured 25. No child restraint systems were used (nor were they…
The Transportation Safety Board of Canada reiterated Tuesday a warning that airplane passengers and crew are at risk of injury because not all Code 4 runways at Canadian airports have a 300-metre runway end safety area. TSB – a separate…