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The FSF President’s Citation was established in 1988 by the FSF
Board of Governors to recognize individuals and groups for aviation
safety accomplishments outside the criteria for other awards. The award
honors those who have displayed “outstanding service on behalf of
safety, whether it be valor, professionalism or service above and beyond
normal expectations.”
The first awards were presented in 1989 to two flight crews for “exemplary
professionalism:”
- The crew of Kuwait Airways Flight 422, a Boeing 747 that was hijacked
by nine armed men on April 5, 1988, while en route from Thailand to
Kuwait. During the 16-day-long hijacking, the terrorists killed two
of the more than 100 passengers, threatened repeatedly to blow up the
airplane and forced the crew to fly to Iran and Cyprus and then to Algeria,
where the hijacking ended April 20, 1988; and,
- The crew of United Airlines Flight 232, a DC-10 that experienced an
unprecedented catastrophic failure of the no. 2 engine July 19, 1989.
All hydraulic controls to the airplane’s flight control surfaces
were disabled, but the crew used throttle controls to the no. 1 and
no. 3 engines to establish a controlled descent to Sioux City Airport,
Iowa, U.S. The airplane was destroyed; 184 of the 296 people in the
airplane survived.
The award includes a handsome, wood-framed, hand-lettered citation. The
President’s Citation is awarded at the discretion of the Foundation
president.
Recipients of the
Flight Safety Foundation President’s Citation |
| 2007 |
Marty
Grier, Bill
Grimes, Brad
Johnson and Bill McBride,
FSF Ground Accident Prevention Program;
Maimuna Taal, former DGCA of
the Republic of Gambia;
Peter Naz, DHL
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| 2006 |
Hans
Almér, Saab Aircraft AB (retired);
Susan M. Coughlin, Member,
Board of Governors, Flight Safety Foundation;
Capt. Alex de Silva, Singapore
Airlines;
Dmitry Kiva, General Designer,
Antonov Design Bureau;
Vladimir Kofman, Flight Safety
Foundation International;
Anatoly Kolisnyk, Chairman,
SAA of Ukraine;
Capt. Dan Maurino, International
Civil Aviation Organization ;
Valery Shelkovnikov,
Flight Safety Foundation International;
James E. Terpstra, Jeppesen
(retired);
Edward R. Williams, The Metropolitan Aviation Group |
| 2005 |
Dmitry
N. Tarasevich, Flight Safety Foundation International;
Capt. Akrivos Tsolakis,
Hellenic Air Accident Investigation & Aviation
Safety Board;
The Flight Crew, KLM CityHopper Flight KL 1636, February 16, 2002 |
| 2004 |
Eddy
Deraet, Noordzee Helikopters Vlaanderen;
Hon. Carl W. Vogt, Fulbright & Jaworski;
Capt. Yang Yuanyuan, General Administration of Civil Aviation of
China
Capt. Osvaldo Oliveira, TAP Air Portugal |
| 2003 |
Reserve Col. Valery Gennadievitch
Shalagin, Moscow M.L. Mil Helicopter Factory, Russia
Marshal
Evgeny I. Shaposhnikov, Russian Federation;
Thomas J. Yager, Langley Research
Center, U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration; |
| 2002 |
Arnold
Barnett, Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology;
Yi Taek Shim, Korean Air |
| 2001 |
Elling
Halvorson, Papillon Airways;
Capt.
Edward K. Miller;
Kyle
Olsen and Jay Pardee, U.S. Federal Aviation Administration,
and Paul Russell, The Boeing Co.;
Michel
Tremaud, Airbus Industrie |
| 2000 |
James
Church, United Technologies—UTFlight;
Gloria
W. Heath;
Earl L. Wiener,
Ph.D., Professor Emeritus, University of Miami |
| 1999 |
Charles
T. Henderson, U.S. Federal Aviation Administration;
James
G. O’Connor and The National Research Council Committee on
Aircraft Certification Safety Management;
Arslan
Ruzmetov, Uzbekistan Airways |
| 1998 |
James
S. O’Connor, Pratt & Whitney;
Bernard
Ziegler, Airbus Industrie |
| 1997 |
Patricia W. Andrews, Mobil Business
Research Corp.;
Edward M.
Boothe, U.S. Federal Aviation Administration;
Frank
Burcham, U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration;
Capt. David C. Carbaugh, Boeing
Commercial Airplane Group;
William
D. Forsythe, Boeing Commercial Airplane Group;
C.
Gordon Fullerton, U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration;
Mark R. Rosekind, Ph.D., U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration,
Ames Research Center |
| 1996 |
Carroll W. Suggs, Petroleum Helicopters Inc. |
| 1995 |
Capt. J.D. Smith, United Airlines |
| 1994 |
Aerospace Human Factors Research
Division, U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Ames
Research Center |
| 1993 |
J. Yoshiyuki Funatsu, All Nippon
Airways; Valerii G. Shelkovnikov, Flight Safety Foundation–Commonwealth
of Independent States |
| 1992 |
John V. Brennan, United States Aviation Insurance
Group |
| 1991 |
Capt. Nagadi, Saudia; Ron Eland |
| 1990 |
No award |
| 1989 |
Capt. Al Haynes and
United Airlines Flight 232 flight crew;
Capt. Subhi N. Yousef and Kuwait Airways “Al-Jaberiya”
flight crew |
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