At first look it isn’t obvious that the Payne Stewart(golfer)/ Helios(2005 – 100+fatality) decompression crashes and 911 are related but from a aviation safety and security system view they are:
When a plane substantially deviates from its approved flight plan it is presently possible to have a remote pilot located in a secure simulator fly the plane to a safe landing at a remotely populated airfield. Over 70% of all fatal air crashes occurrences are readily preventable if handled correctly.
Unfortunately, the data needed to accomplish this is locked up in the flight recorder and is utilized predominately in an autopsy mode. If the data is so important that it is necessary to discover the cause of a fatal crash it is much more important to prevent a fatal crash. Yet because of the aviation industry’s partnership with the FAA and NTSB none of the flight data coming out of the recorders is available in real-time to proactively prevent fatal crashes. The inability to use the flight data in real time has jeopardized the safety and security of the traveling public and the nation. The astronauts were guided back from the moon because the data was telemetered to the ground in real-time. Once it got to the ground it was analyzed, and then via a concerted effort by experts, using simulations the proper and safe way to handle life threatening situation was accomplished. Yet this proven technique isn’t utilized by the industrial/government partnership to keep our nation and air-passengers safe and secure.
One year prior to 911, I was the guest speaker at the International Aviation Safety Association meeting in NY where I spoke on how terrorists and decompression fatal crashes are preventable via remote control of a deviating aircraft using ciphered technology developed for our ballistic missiles. This technology can prevent most aviation crashes (approximately 70%) even those from mechanical problems and errors of commission and omission. At present a pilot has displayed only a fraction of the information necessary to make the right decision to prevent a crash. The pilot in many instances is seeing a problem for the first time. The aircraft data and air traffic control data isn’t shared extensively so experts on handling the aircraft’s problem aren’t consulted nor can the problem be simulated to aid in crash prevention. This data vacuum is responsible for most fatal crashes. For example, the Swiss Air and Alaskan Air fatal crashes could have been prevented if handled correctly.
In addition it is not only terrorists that sabotage aircraft. Commercial and Military pilots have also done it. When a pilot deviates substantially from the approved flight plan the aircraft should be safely remote piloted to a landing at a sparsely populated airport. Several years ago a rogue military pilot substantially deviated from his approved Continental United States (CONUS) flight plan and flew an A-10 aircraft loaded with bombs clandestinely across multiple states. It took two weeks to find the plane which had crashed into a Colorado mountain. The plane was eventually found but the bombs are still missing. Exhaustive searches were made but no one has a clew as to what happened to the bombs. Must we wait for a bigger disaster than 911 before any action takes place?
Everyone knowledgeable about the holes in our aviation system, brought about by the industrial government partnership, knew that a 911 could occur and the government allowed it to occur. Even though we knew about Payne Stewart nothing was done and so we got Helios’ 100 + deaths. Presently we are just as vulnerable to a 911 disaster, decompression disaster, … etc. as we were in 2001. The public needs to know the system is fixable for the good of our nation. Even though 3000 people died needlessly on 911 the system doesn’t fix the data vacuum mode of operation. It works around the system with attempted patches that are costly and ineffective fixes simply to protect the industry from liability suits. The necessary data is only available in the tombstone/autopsy mode. With all of the deaths that were preventable not a single FAA or NTSB person was even laid-off. Thus, the industry won out and the public and nation suffered. It is quite possible that we went into an unnecessary and horrible war just because we protected the special interest of the aviation industry. The cost of those disasters alone would have been a small fraction of the cost necessary to fix the system and we would now have a safer and securer nation. Instead, things are the same and we are vulnerable.
If you should need more info on this please don’t hesitate to contact me (you can see some of my work by going to Google and doing a search on “aviation security, safety and sy levine” or go to my web site www.safelander.com. My work was also featured on the BBC show called “The Black Box”. There is simply no reason, technical, cost or data privacy wise” for not using the Black Box Data in real-time, in addition to its autopsy mode, to make our nation safer and securer. The fear of liability, via law suits, should not stand in the way of the airline passenger safety, the safety of people on the ground, or our national security. It is imperative that the traveling public write to the President, their Congressional Representatives, the DOT, FAA and NTSB and demand that the Black Box data be available and utilized in real-time for the security of our nation and to substantially reduce fatal crashes.
Sincerely,
Sy Levine
sylevine1@sbcglobal.net
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One further point needs to made. If a remote pilot system was available when Payne Stewart’s plane and the Helios plane deviated from their approved flight plans the passengers and pilots would probably be alive today. The reason for this is that when it was noted that the planes substantially deviated from their approved flight plan and no contact could be made with them then the remote pilot would take the planes down to an altitude where, after flying for more than 15 minutes most if not all of the passengers and pilots would have recovered. If at that time the pilots were in a condition to resume the pilotage of planes that function would be transferred back to the onboard pilot. The onboard pilots would than safely land the aircraft.
One further point needs to made. If a remote pilot system was made available when Payne Stewart’s plane and the Helios plane deviated from their approved flight plans the passengers and pilots would probably be alive today. The reason for this is that when it was noted that the planes substantially deviated from their approved flight plan and no contact could be made with them then the remote pilot would take the planes down to an altitude where, after flying for more than 15 minutes most if not all of the passengers and pilots would have recovered. If at that time the pilots were in a condition to resume the pilotage of planes that function would be transferred back to the onboard pilot. The onboard pilots would than safely land the aircraft.
Blakey will leave the FAA prior to 2008 and will take the top position of an aviation lobby organization. She been pushing how she did a wonderful job in aviation safety and down playing the 3000 + deaths that she was responsible for on 9/11/2001. Is there not end of the incest, pandering and lack of responsiblity by those who took oaths of office to protect the public.
My wife and I presented a paper titled
“An Onboard Pilot and a Remote Copilot for Aviation Safety, Security and Cost Savings”
at the 26th Digital Avionics and Systems Conference in Dallas Texas on Oct. 25, 2007.
This conference put together by the Institue of Electrical and Electronic Engineers and the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. The paper was selected as the best paper of the session. Everyone asked “Why isn’t it being done now”. My answer was it should be it not only would prevent another 9/11 but it prevents most of the fatal airline crashes and makes flying more economical. If only the politicians were more intested in preventing fatalities than they are from cashing in on free press when there is an accident it would get done ASAP.
Sincerely,
Sy Levine
911 was an inside job.There were no planes,no NTSB
or FAA reports.
I don’t agree that 9/11 was an inside job.
The reason that there is no FAA or NTSB report on these disasters is that their lack of protecting the public from a known threat makes them partially liable for the disaster. They don’t want to incriminate themselves since they could have been proactive in the prevention of these disasters.
Sincerely,
Sy Levine
A synopses of the Digital Avionics Systems Conference (2007 DASC) paper has recently been published in the Institute for Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE)May 2008 issue of its “SYSTEMS MAGAZINE”. This article and its selection for publication reinforces the benefits of preventing a host of aviation fatal disasters including 9/11. It also shows that by implementing this substantial savings in air travel recurring costs can be made.