Annual Gerhard Sedlmayr Lecture 2024

Lecture in English. The lecture will be in-person only!

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Yannick's presentation will revolve around aviation safety in today's context.  He will touch upon a few topics highlighting some challenges of the aviation industry and evolution of commercial flight safety in the past decades. He will also provide an insight into Airbus' purpose, safety vision, strategy & enablers; how Airbus strengthens the safety culture within & across the aviation industry; about Airbus safety governance, prevention drivers, Airbus Safety Management System (SMS).

Graduated Aeronautical Engineer in 1986 from ENAC, the French Civil Aviation School, Yannick MALINGE joined Airbus in November 1987 as Cockpit / Avionic Engineer in charge of cockpit/avionic/flight instrument systems, he was also the Chairman of several working groups with A330/A340 launching customers.

He joined the Flight Safety department in 1993 as Deputy Vice President Flight Safety.

He led various accidents/major incidents investigations and represented Airbus in International meetings such as IATA SAC.

In 1998 he joined the Flight Test Division as Head of Airbus Flight Test Technical Coordination Team during the A340 500/-600 and A319 corporate jet flight test campaigns.

Before taking over the Flight Safety Dept, he was Director Product Safety Process, in charge of reviewing the Airbus internal safety process.

In November 2003, he joined the Flight Safety department as Vice-President Flight Safety, with two main areas of focus: accident/major incidents investigation and accident prevention.

Since 1st October 2010, he has been appointed SVP & Chief Product Safety Officer.

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