Safety and Standards: The Importance Of Checklists

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Checklists take us step by step through a task or procedure and help ensure we don’t miss something. They’re straightforward and eliminate error. So why don’t we follow them 100% of the time? I thought about this when reading Roger Cox’s The Crosscheck column about the frequency of fuel exhaustion...
Lee Ann Shay

As executive editor of MRO and business aviation, Lee Ann Shay directs Aviation Week's coverage of maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO), including Inside MRO, and business aviation, including BCA.

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