Safety Pioneer

Aviation safety pioneer Paul Soderlind has died in Montana at the age of 77. A longtime Northwest Airlines captain and one-time director of flight operations for the carrier, Soderlind in 1968 developed a Turbulence Plot System (TPS) to help Northwest aircraft avoid severe weather-induced and clear...

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