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Nothing in these pages is intended to supersede operators’ or manufacturers’ policies, practices or requirements, or to supersede government regulations. | | FLIGHTSAFETY.ORG AEROSAFETYWORLD JUNE 2014 | 3 EDITORIALPAGE CHILD RESTRAINT Devices s parents, we’d all like to think that there is recommended restraints for lap-held children, nowhere safer for our children than in our “and we have been recommending it ever since,” arms, particularly when our kids are very Hersman said. young. And from a nurturing or develop- During the question-and-answer session Ament standpoint, this is probably true. But is it following her speech, she said, “I couldn’t have true during a high-speed rejected takeoff, clear air imagined in 2004 [when she joined the NTSB] turbulence or a runway excursion when accelera- that we’d still be talking about this issue in 2014.” tion g-forces come into play? She described it as one of the “great disappoint- When traveling by air, parents generally are ments” of her tenure on the board. allowed to hold the smallest children, those under As soon as we wrap up this issue of AeroSafety the age of 2 years, on their laps, obviating the need World, I will be headed to Madrid to attend the to buy an additional seat. However, in the United International Air Transport Association’s (IATA’s) States there are no restraining devices for lap-held Cabin Operations Safety Conference. Among the children that are approved for use during takeoff conference activities are two workshops — half and landing, so parents are expected to secure a day each — on child restraint devices. In its these children using only their arms. conference materials, IATA said it is seeking an In a speech April 21 at the National Press Club “internationally recognized solution on accepted in Washington, Deborah Hersman, then the outgo- child restraint devices with a solution that is prac- ing chairman of the U.S. National Transportation tical, affordable, operationally realistic, feasible Safety Board (NTSB), made the issue of lap-held and harmonized globally.” children one of the focal points of what were es- I’m looking forward to the discussion, and I sentially her farewell remarks. “Some people say the hope that a solution to the issue is on the horizon. risk is small,” Hersman said. “I tell them, ‘No, a baby is small.’ We secure laptops and coffeepots, yet we do not secure our most precious cargo, our children.” In the late 1970s, NTSB recommended that the Federal Aviation Administration research and initiate a rulemaking on the restraint of Frank Jackman small children. After the crash of United Airlines Editor-in-Chief Flight 232 at Sioux City, Iowa, 25 years ago, NTSB AeroSafety World FLIGHTSAFETY.ORG | AEROSAFETYWORLD | JUNE 2014 | 5 Serving Aviation Safety Interests for More Than 65 Years OFFICERS AND STAFF ince 1947, Flight Safety Foundation has helped save lives around the world. The Chairman Foundation is an international non-profit organization whose sole purpose is to Board of Governors David McMillan provide impartial, independent, expert safety guidance and resources for the President and CEO Jon L.