The Laura Taber Barbour Air Safety Award

Established in memory of Laura Taber Barbour to recognize outstanding achievement in the field of aviation safety — military or civil — in method, design, invention, study or other improvement. The Award is administered by Flight Safety Foundation.

This certifies that the Award for the year 1998
has been presented to

Vice Admiral Brent M. Bennitt
U.S. Navy

For his significant contributions to aviation safety in risk management, hardware, human performance, innovation and leadership.

Vice Admiral Bennitt vigorously supported integration into U.S. naval aviation of operational risk management, a program of risk identification, analysis and countermeasures.

He initiated a comprehensive review that resulted in a completely revised policy to upgrade naval aircraft with advanced safety equipment such as the enhanced ground-proximity warning system and the traffic-alert and collision avoidance system.

Vice Admiral Bennitt created a Human Factors Quality Management Board and charged it with reducing human factors–related accidents by 50 percent in three years and 90 percent in five years. He launched a major effort to discover and incorporate in naval aviation the best practices of aviation operations worldwide.

Vice Admiral Bennitt led and enforced a campaign for strict accountability for actions with a bearing on safety, helping to bring about a new attitude that led to significant reductions in accidents and fatalities.

Vice Admiral Bennitt’s work has demonstrated that the plateau on which naval aviation safety had remained for 10 years could be improved, and that those improvements could be sustained.

Flight Safety Foundation is pleased to recognize the achievements of Vice Admiral Brent M. Bennitt with the Laura Taber Barbour Air Safety Award.

FSF 51st annual International Air Safety Seminar
Cape Town, South Africa
November 18, 1998

Stuart Matthews
Chairman, President and CEO
Flight Safety Foundation

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