Flight Safety Foundation
Air BP Airport Safety Award

is presented to

James M. Crites
Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport

For advocating perimeter taxiways that eliminate the necessity for aircraft to cross active runways, and for promoting Dallas/Fort Worth (Texas) International Airport as a test site for evolving technologies such as aircraft-vortex safety systems, enhanced-vision systems and sensor-based systems to prevent runway incursions.

As the airport’s executive vice president of operations since 1998, Mr. Crites partnered with the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and with the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to encourage airport-based testing. NASA projects involved runway-incursion prevention, enhanced vision and wake-vortex avoidance. FAA programs involved pilot situational awareness, real-time and risk-based advisories of bird activities for air traffic controllers, and runway-status lights that visually cue pilots when a runway is unsafe.

Mr. Crites’ leadership in improving emergency response (including the addition of a mobile command post for airport incidents), airfield safety, wildlife management and environmental management (including upgraded aircraft-deicing facilities) earned wide industry recognition. He also developed innovative shift-scheduling techniques for the DFW Department of Public Safety to improve emergency-response capability at current staffing levels.

Flight Safety Foundation and the award’s sponsor, Air BP, are pleased to recognize James M. Crites for his contributions to airport safety.

FSF 56th annual International Air Safety Seminar
Washington, D.C., U.S.A.
November 10, 2003

Stuart Matthews
President and CEO
Flight Safety Foundation

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