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1997
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MILITARY SAFETY While still coy about flight safety, at least the military appear to be sharing some secrets ^fea DAVID LEARMOUNT/LONDON IN THE COMMERCIAL air-transport world, systems for sharing safety data among airlines and across borders are under con struction. The military community, with its more conservative culture, is lagging behind, but there are some signs that firm foundations for pro-active safety exchanges are being laid. Many safety-conscious and commercially astute carriers have their own internal incident databases and are preparing to network de- identified data which will expose common problems and enable pro-active safety policies to work effectively. Two fears have, however, kept the handbrake on the progress of airline- safety information exchange: in litigious coun tries, it is the fear of lawyers being able to subpoena such data; and in much of the world there still exists a blame-and-punish culture which prevents flightcrew and engineers from filing essential reports, according to the International Air Transport Association. Military aviation culture is, self-evidently, different from civil, with the aura of national security influencing the way all information is treated, even when unclassified. The Republic of Singapore's Air Force Inspectorate, for exam ple, is on the horns of a dilemma. Its chief, Col Mark Lai-Choong Wong, attends internation- 38 FLIGHT INTERNATIONAL 4 - 10 June 1997
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