Transport committee  Thank you. Certainly, if you have a fire on board the aircraft, you're going to want to land the aircraft as quickly as possible. Having said that, when you actually make a decision on where to land, different factors can influence that. Something that we practise all the time in

Transport committee  Certainly the batteries, initially, became part of the dangerous goods system through other chemistries of batteries that, prior to the 1990s, were not nearly as dangerous in transportation. When lithium batteries came on the scene, they were added to these provisions. The diffic

Transport committee  Certainly, the way that we inform pilots of dangerous goods shipments is through an established process. For all kinds of dangerous goods we have a pilot notification form. The point I'm making here is that if you have a five-gallon drum of paint, or even dry ice, the pilot is

Transport committee  Good morning. I will provide our perspective on the safe carriage of dangerous goods, and how the implementation of an effective safety management system focused on the transportation of these goods can improve aviation safety. Specifically, this morning I would like to focus