“These tragedies highlight the importance of screening pilot candidates and foreign carriers crafting stricter guidelines for flight personnel,” according to Cody Christensen, aviation assistant professor at South Dakota State University, who specializes in commercial air transportation, airline operations and aviation safety.
His research and scholarship responsibilities include mentoring in aviation, barriers of access in aviation education and simulation in aviation.
Christensen is available to discuss how Germanwings plane crash will change guidelines and training of flight staff including pilot training.
Christensen is a former airline captain, a multiengine flight instructor and holds professional membership in Airplane Owners and Pilots Association, South Dakota Pilots Association, University Aviation Association and Women in Aviation.
Contact Christensen at 605-695-7790 or [email protected].
About South Dakota State University
Founded in 1881, South Dakota State University is the state’s Morrill Act land-grant institution as well as its largest, most comprehensive school of higher education. SDSU confers degrees from eight different colleges representing more than 175 majors, minors and specializations.
The institution also offers 32 master’s degree programs, 15 Ph.D. and two professional programs. The work of the university is carried out on a residential campus in Brookings, at sites in Sioux Falls, Pierre and Rapid City, and through Cooperative Extension offices and Agricultural Experiment Station research sites across the state.
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