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Old 2nd June 2007 | 13:58
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I think Mike Jenvy has given you the steer in JAROPS1 support for your proposed publication and likely enough as part of your Safety Management System there is a requirement to do so. The responsibilities of the flight operations AOC post-holder in fostering safety awareness in your airline clearly over-rides any commercial considerations.

A few years ago we had a very interesting few hours with our corporate liability lawyers discussing our exposure and liability in law as post-holders. The single most important factor in keeping you on the right side of the law is to have it written down in SOP's and to be clearly seen to be discharging your responsibilities, and JAROPS 1.037 spells it out quite clearly with respect to publication of flight safety information.

Putting aside the obvious benefits of sharing flight safety related knowledge and information, which might prevent a re-occurrence of an incident. How would you/could you justify this decision not to publish, were it to come to a court of law, on the basis of a fear of some form of press exposure?

The fear of press attention, in my opinion would not hold up. The simple fact of the matter is, as some wise aviator once said, 'we all need to learn from the mistakes of others as we don't live long enough to make them all ourselves', it seems to me your publication would be doing just that.

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