Where Birds Don't Fly

Accountability is without supervision, to comply with regulatory requirements, standards, policies, recommendations, job descriptions, expectations or intent of job performance and for personnel to be actively and independently involved. Accountability is an element of a just culture, which is an organizational culture where there is Trust, Learning, Accountability and Information Sharing. Accountability is process in motion. Accountability is a process in motion and not a static state of virtual events. Accountability is different than responsibility since it is the behavior to trigger events in a form that produces the most positive result. When a person gets the drivers license they have a responsibility to stay on the correct side of the yellow line that is dividing oncoming traffic. This personal responsibility does not leave the person even if the person is not driving a vehicle. It’s a responsibility of the license itself. This is the same for a pilot license or aircraft mechani...

Analysis of data in aviation is an application of historical data to predict future events. This data is applied to predict hazards, but is not available as a tool to predict incidents or accidents. Incidents or accidents cannot be predicted since there is no capability within a data analysis to assign time and location of a future incident or accident. Reporting hazards is SMS painting a picture of the operations. The concept of predicting any hazard is the same concept as predicting the hazard of an inflight icing conditions. When an airplane is flying into icing conditions, the hazard of icing is predictable based on area weather forecast and knowledge, but it cannot be pre- assigned to one specific future incident or accident since variations are unpredictable. A high volume of reports for one operator does not necessary conclude that this operator is a higher risk than another operator.  Raw data of reports are often assumed to be a higher risk and assigned a value without fur...