Awarded to an individual, a team, group or organisation for an outstanding contribution to air safety, whether by the development of techniques contributing to safer flight, by improvements in ground equipment and services or by improvements in aircraft and component design.

 

2010 awarded to:  JAMES RAY KLINECT BA PhD

 

Dr James Klinect has been a tireless crusader for aviation safety throughout his working life. He joined The Human Factors Research Project (HFRP) team at the University of Texas (Austin) in 1995 under the tutelage of the HFRP Director, Professor Robert Helmreich. Dr Klinect’s early research initially focused on the measurement of the effectiveness of existing Crew Resource Management (CRM) programs in major airlines. This resulted in a research question that had not previously been addressed:

‘...Exactly what do airline crews do in order to fly safely from A to B...’

Devastating in its simplicity, the research into this question conducted through observation of multiple flight crews, led to the establishment of what is now known as “Threat and Error Management” (TEM). Dr Klinect refined the methodology into a practical safety tool that could be deployed by airlines - the Line Operations Safety Audit (LOSA). This is now in use worldwide as a non jeopardy method of monitoring normal line operations. With a database comprising more than 12,000 flight deck observations, LOSA is allowing airline managers to gain a unique safety insight into the way that their crews perform in line operations thus informing evidence based changes to Standard Operating Procedures, training and organisational management.

It is significant that Dr Klinect unselfishly released full details of his work into the public domain with both TEM and LOSA being adopted by the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO). TEM is now included in all relevant annexes to the ICAO Convention and normal operations monitoring through LOSA methodology is considered a best practice.

In order to facilitate the education and deployment of LOSA, early in the project, Dr Klinect saw the need to form the ‘LOSA Collaborative’ which brought together a select group of expert international aviation safety practitioners to contribute to both the development and deployment of LOSA. Dr Klinect together with members of the LOSA Collaborative has authored several publications on LOSA and TEM, including primary source reference documents for ICAO and the FAA. In conjunction with ICAO, for several years the LOSA Collaborative has conducted pro-bono international education and training seminars on TEM and LOSA.  LOSA methodology is now improving safety in regional as well as major airlines world-wide and is being developed within the LOSA Collaborative for single pilot fixed wing and Helicopter Emergency Medical Service (HEMS) operations.  LOSA methodology is also currently in use in hospital operating theatres, as well as the rail and shipping industries around the world.   

Dr James Klinect, through the LOSA and TEM initiatives, has made the most significant and recognised contribution in recent years to international aviation safety and the enhancement of the reputation of the aviation industry internationally.  He is accordingly awarded the Cumberbatch Trophy.

Previous Winners

1936-37
Sqn Ldr H G Brackley DSO DSC
F J Bailey Esq
W Rodgers Esq AFM
F Dismore Esq
LA Walters Esq
H J Horsey Esq
O P Jones Esq
A S Wilcockson Esq
A B H Youell Esq (Imperial Airways)

1937-38
Captain G P Olley MM
T W Morton Esq
C W H Bebb Esq
F R Midgley Esq
R D Morrison Esq
J Dendy Esq
G E B Stoney Esq
J E B Scott Esq (Olley Air Service)

1938-39
J W Duggan Esq/ F Brent Esq
P C Fair Esq/ G G Stead Esq (Wrightways Ltd)

1947-48
Air Commander H G Brackley CBE DSO DSC
British Overseas Airways Corporation

1948-49 Aer Lingus

1949-50 No. 3 Line B.O.A.C.

1950-51 Tasman Empire Airways Limited

1952 E S Calvert Esq BSc ARSc

1953 British West Indian Airways

1954 Silver City Airways Ltd

1955-56

Captain W B Calldwell

Captain E W Jorden and Flying Staff, British European Airways, Channel Islands Services

1957 Malayan Airways Limited

1958 Trans-Australian Airlines

1959 James Martin Esq CBE

1960 Royal Air Force, Institute of Aviation Medicine

1961 Aden Airways Limited

1962 D P Davies Esq

1963 Blind Landing Experimental Unit of the Royal Aircraft Establishment

1964 J W Gibbs Esq

1965 Britannia 102 + 312 Flights BOAC

1966 E S Calvert Esq OBE & J W Sparks Esq

1967 W E B Griffiths Esq

1968 J A Karran Esq OBE

1969 Captain E N Jennings MBE DFC

1970 Qantas Airways Limited

1971 Captain F Ormonroyd DFM MA & Captain E L R Poole

1972 J W Wilson Esq

1973 J F M Moyle Esq

1974 J H Grant Esq

1975 S G Corps Esq

1976 Joint Airmiss Working Group

1977 Not Awarded

1978 Captain F H Hawkins

1979 Captain P Brentall

1980 M Ramsden Esq

1981 VC10 Flight of British Airways - Accepted by Captain J D'Arcy

1982 Captain T L J Lakin W H Grice Esq Captain P J Hunt (British Airways 'All Weather' Team)

1983 - 88 Not Awarded

1989 Qantas Airways Limited

1990-91 Not Awarded

1992 R Ashford Esq

1993 Dr K M Carpenter PhD

1994 W Reynard Esq

1995 British Airways Safety Information System

1996 Don Bateman Esq

1997 Not Awarded

1999 John Thorpe

2000 Curtis Graeber

2001 Eric Clark

2002 Not Awarded

2003 Alan Jacobsen

2004 Stuart Mathews

2005 Dr Kathy Abbott

2006 Not Awarded

2007 Not Awarded

2008 Not Awarded

2009 Not Awarded

2010  Dr James Ray Klinect