Flight Safety Foundation Heroism Award

The FSF Heroism Award was established by the Foundation in 1968 to recognize civil aircraft crewmembers or ground personnel whose heroic actions exceeded the requirements of their jobs and, as a result, saved lives or property. Selection of award recipients is determined by the degree of personal risk involved in the heroic act; the nature of the courage, perseverance and other personal characteristics that were displayed; and the degree to which the heroism was outside normal levels of duty and ability.

The award is presented only in years in which a nominee clearly meets the award’s standard for heroism.

In 1978, Wilkinson Sword Ltd. was commissioned to craft a permanent symbol of the award — The Graviner Sword, a 4.2-foot (1.3-meter) Scottish highland clan broadsword, modeled after a 15th-century two-handed battle sword. The award includes a miniature replica of The Graviner Sword, US$1,000 and a handsome, wood-framed, hand-lettered citation.

Recipients of the Flight Safety Foundation Heroism Award
2007	No award
2006	No award
2005	No award
2004	No award
2003	No award
2002	No award
2001	Capt. Sean Loutitt, First Officer Mark Carey and Aircraft Maintenance Engineer Norman Wong, Kenn Borek Air
2000	No award
1999	Jim Corey, Silver Bay Logging
1998	Barry Walze, Continental Airlines
1997	Innokeniy Pavlovitch Tzivilev
1996	No award
1995	No award
1994	Richard DeMary, USAir
1993	No award
1992	No award
1991	No award
1990	Anatoly Grischenko (posthumously), U.S.S.R. civil helicopter pilot
1989	No award
1988	Arthur Bradbury, Sharon Ford (posthumously), Joanna Toff and Jacqueline Urbanski (posthumously), British Airways
1987	Neerja Bhanot (posthumously), Pan American World Airways
1986	Richard F. Jeppesen, Jeppesen Development
1985	Miss Naila Nazir, Pakistan International Airlines
1984	Larry Schmidt and Cliff Wilson, ERA Helicopters
1983	Richard E. Smart, Spellabarger Flying Services; Nelson Walker Sr., Walker Air Services
1982	Thomas N. Prinster and Lyle Hogg, Pilgrim Airlines
1981	Barbara Sorensen, Continental Airlines
1980	Wang Wen-hua, China Airlines
1979	Capt. Bain, Capt. Bosanquet, Capt. Campbell and Brian Johnstone, British Airway Helicopters
1978	No award
1977	Dorothy Kelly, Pan American World Airways
1976	Gilbert Pelowook, Alaskan State Trooper
1975	Lina Polk, National Airlines
1974	Capt. Ordell T. Nordseth, North Central Airlines
1973	Capt. Alberto Guingue, Helicopteros Nacionales do Colombis (HELICOIL)
1972	Helicopter Crews, Police and Firemen of São Paulo, Brazil
1971	Stewardess Barbara Harrison (posthumously), British Overseas Airways Corp.
1970	First Officer James E. Hartley (posthumously), Eastern Air Lines
1969	Alston James, Eastern Air Lines
1968	Charles W. Schoenberg, Trans World Airlines