Sean Broderick covers aviation safety, MRO, and the hardware side of the airline business from Aviation Week Network's Washington, D.C. office.
Broderick's aviation career started in 1991, working for Airbus in Toulouse. His industry experience includes four years with an aviation consultancy, where he helped launch a U.S. Part 121 carrier; 12 years with the American Association of Airport Executives, where he served as editor of Airport Magazine; and 20 years in full- and part-time roles with Aviation Week writing primarily about safety and the aftermarket.
Broderick was named the 2020 Aerospace Journalist of the Year by the Aerospace Media Awards. He also shared in a 2020 Neal Award for Best News Coverage with Aviation Week Network colleagues. Broderick and Aviation Week colleague John Croft shared the 2015 Flight Safety International Cecil A. Brownlow Publication Award recognizing "significant contributions by journalists to aviation safety awareness."
He graduated from James Madison University with a B.S. in Communications ('91) and earned an M.S. in Integrated Marketing Communications ('13) from West Virginia University.
Delta TechOps, taking full advantage of this week's gathering of maintenance executives in hometown Atlanta, announced five major deals Tuesday, including an agreement to service Mesa's GE CF34 engines and four strategic partnerships. Separately, TechOps Senior VP Tony Charaf revealed that his unit in-sourced $312 million worth of third-party work in 2006, surpassing the company's goal of $270 million.
Delta Tech Ops is six months into a revamped, organization-wide human factors training initiative. So far, say the division's leaders, the program is nailing its objectives. Delta's maintenance human factors training effort started in 2002. The original program, while effective, soon re-vealed a few shortcomings. For one, ex-plained Tech Ops Training Manager Steve Trawick, the curriculum was too heavy on human factors philosophy. "We realized," he explained, "that we needed to get it a little bit more hands-on."
It probably comes as no surprise that the leader of an organization founded on the principles of aviation risk management would be a vocal advocate for safety management systems (SMS). As president of the Flight Safety Foundation (FSF), Bill Voss is expected to evangelize on all things that seek to enhance aviation safety.
