. Southwest Airlines’ Leadership in Safety Initiatives . Safety personnel at Southwest Airlines include graduates of the University of Southern California’s Aviation Safety and Security Program. Our people also have completed many safety programs at the Southem California Safety Institute, the FAA Academy’s Transportation Safety Institute, the NTSB Academy, and have gained professional development through the International Society of Air Safety Investigators, of which six Southwest employees are full members. Various Southwest employees participate on the Air Transport Association (ATA) Flight, Ground, and Cabin Safety Committees. Southwest Airlines participates and sponsors the annual Cabin Safety Symposium held in North America. Southwest Airlines is a long time full member of the Flight Safety Foundation. More than 100 of our employees have completed the FAA’s System Safety Course, including a group of 52 who undertook the instruction when we soonsored three FAA Instructors to convene the three-day course at Southwest Airlines’ Headquarters. o Industry, Boeing, and FAA partnered to create the Industry Maintenance Steering Group (MSG-3), a new maintenance program for the -200, -300, -400, and -500 models of the 737 aircraft. Southwest Airlines was a major contributor of both data and technical expertise that were used to create the MSG-3 logic-based maintenance program for these aircraft. MSG-3 improves upon the predecessor MSG-2 program by incorporating the most current methodology, thereby promoting a higher level of safety. While adopting the MSG-3 program is voluntary for carriers which were operating these models of the 737 priorto its release in 2004, Southwest Airlines is continuing the process of transitioning its fleet of 737-300/500 aircraft from an MSG-2 based maintenance program to an MSG-3 based maintenance program. The 737-700 uses a maintenance program based on MSG-3. . Southwest Airlines has worked closely with Boeing and the FAA to develop new inspections and modifications, many of which were developed in advance of regulatory requirements….

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