Airbus, Delta and EASA discuss proactive risk management at IATA conference

At the IATA World Safety and Operations Conference in Istanbul from 6 to 8 October, Airbus, Delta Air Lines and the European Union Aviation Safety Agency presented their approaches to risk prevention and the effectiveness of safety management systems.

The speakers said safety management must identify emerging risks, gather operational information and make decisions to mitigate them, emphasizing information flow, data sharing and rapid corrective actions, while Airbus vice‑president Yannick Vanhaecke described an SMS as a tool for early detection of risk signals and cited a major preventive intervention on the A320 family at the end of November.