Latest Safety Standdown article explains the biology behind CRM breakdown
This year, Bombardier’s industry-leading Safety Standdown event is celebrating 30 years of being on the leading edge of business aviation safety!
Plans are coming together for another informative and educational conference in Wichita, Kansas, from Nov. 10-12, 2026. Visit the Safety Standdown website for more details.
While you’re there, check out the site’s Knowledge Center – it’s brimming with all kinds of valuable safety-related content, including links to past webcasts, safety talks, and articles by aviation safety experts.
Our latest instalment is an article by Captain Kyle Freiburger, the founder of First Class Leaders and a G450 Captain with more than 10,000 flight hours and 20 years in aviation.
His article, “The CRM Breakdown Nobody is Training For,” posits that Crew Resource Management, as we currently train it, addresses the symptom without ever quite reaching the root cause.
Freiburger writes that despite pilots training in CRM for almost 50 years, accidents still happen too often. He believes the problem is not a communication gap. Rather, it is a “threat perception gap” that is rooted in biology – a phenomenon he explains further in our latest Bombardier Safety Standdown Knowledge Center post.