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One Level of Safety What’s the Difference Between Passenger and Cargo Operations? Captain Rich Hughey President’s Committee for Cargo Chair Flight Safety Foundation International Air Safety Summit November 12-14, 2018 Air Line Pilots Association, Int’l

What’s the Difference??? Snakes on Planes § Cargo Aircraft = Undeclared DG § Passenger Aircraft = Emotional Support Animal Air Line Pilots Association, Int’l

U.S. Commercial Aircraft Fleet U.S. Commercial Aircraft Fleet 4,500 3,982 4,000 3,500 3,000 2,500 2,000 1,500 1,109 1,000 469 500 0 2017 Narrow-Body Jet Wide-Body Jet Wide-Body Jet - CARGO Air Line Pilots Association, Int’l

Snap shot of today’s conversation § Accident Rate Disparity § One Level Of Safety § What’s the Difference? Air Line Pilots Association, Int’l

Accident Rate Disparity Part 121 Cargo: Cargo is 10-12 Cargo 6-7% times more likely to have a fatal Passenger accident than Part 121 Passenger since 2001. 2017 IATA Safety Report: 93-94% Cargo-only major accidents are 7-15 (~1m dep/yr) times higher than passenger airline accidents since 2012. Air Line Pilots Association, Int’l

One Level of Safety § What is it? – Equivalent Safety Performance § Why do we want it? – Level the playing field of risk § How do we achieve this? – Multiple “protection” methods Risk

What else is different? § People vs. Cargo § Business models § Protections Air Line Pilots Association, Int’l

Dangerous Goods Pallets of iPads for Cargo-Only Aircraft Air Line Pilots Association, Int’l

Undeclared Dangerous Goods Incidents Reported Annually 1,556 1,460 Undeclared Incidents Reported 1,441 1,401 1,356 1,327 1,295 1,278 1,183 1,129 1,082 787 740 729 721 722 718 658 625 581 564 479 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 What’s Really In The Box? 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 Air Line Pilots Association, Int’l

Risk Exposure to Cargo Operators & Pilots Fire Risk Hazards § Dangerous Goods – Volume – Lithium Batteries § Undeclared Dangerous Goods (UDG) FAATC Freighter Airplane Cargo Fire Risk, Benefit, and Cost Model - April 2013 Air Line Pilots Association, Int’l

Prevention, Detection, Protection § Prevention: ICAO (Intl shipments) – Instituted packaging requirements for lithium batteries § Detection & Protection § Some operators employ: – Fire Containment Covers (FCC) – Fire Resistance Container (FRC-ULD) – Fire Suppression Systems (FSS) Air Line Pilots Association, Int’l

Fire Risk Mitigation Disparity Passenger § Cargo carriers still plan to depressurize to “fight” fire Detection Passive Protection (Class C Liner) § 19 min = average time to Active Protection recover aircraft to surface, (Halon System) or consider ditching No Carriage of Lithium Batteries & very limited DG RISK Air Line Pilots Association, Int’l

All of this is Special Cargo Protections: - FAA Cargo Focus Team - Loadmaster Cert WG - AC 120-85B 12-ton MRAP Vehicle Air Line Pilots Association, Int’l

Business Model Diversity Air Line Pilots Association, Int’l

Work-Rest Differences Air Line Pilots Association, Int’l

Aviation Infrastructure Differences § Time of Day – Air Traffic Services – Non—Tower Ops – Airport maintenance § Aircraft Rescue Fire Fighting (ARFF) § Wide Body aircraft at smaller airports Air Line Pilots Association, Int’l

Protection Differences (Industry Level): § Legislation § Federal Aviation Regulations (FARs) § ICAO SARPs & Technical Instructions § Advisory Circulars (ACs) § CAST Safety Enhancements (SEs) Air Line Pilots Association, Int’l

Mitigation Differences (Operator level): § Safety Management System (SMS) § Collective Bargaining Agreements (CBA) § Safety Technology employed Air Line Pilots Association, Int’l

Obstacles to level the playing field of risk: § Cost Benefit Methodology – Regulatory imbalances – Alternative Means of Compliance (AMOC), Exemptions, Deviations § United States Postal Service (USPS) – Different rules on Shipping, Investigation, Declaration of Commodities – or lack thereof (UDG) Air Line Pilots Association, Int’l

Leveling the Playing Field of Risk Air Line Pilots Association, Int’l

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Thank You! Capt. Rich Hughey President’s Committee for Cargo Chair Air Line Pilots Association, International Richard.Hughey@alpa.org Air Line Pilots Association, Int’l

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