WHY AMSP, LLC?
Stephen Carbone is a 40-year veteran of the aviation industry, in both Maintenance and Operations. His business, Aircraft Maintenance Safety Professionals (AMSP) LLC is his contribution to aviation safety; an organization dedicated to unequaled aviation safety. In order to get aviation safety right, what is required is a professional, who by understanding the aviation industry can fix the aviation industry. A professional with a career of working in every corner of the industry and can speak from practice and knowledge.
An aviation professional is deeply involved with the root cause of aviation hazards, what factors have led - and will lead - to unsafe events. Risk cause analysis must be employed to steer us to the fundamental and factual threat(s) to aviation safety. An aviation professional’s experience is based on active involvement, consistently honing his/her skills working behind the scenes to improve safety in all facets of aviation.
What does Stephen Carbone and AMSP offer industry? He brings 20 years of government oversight and investigatory experience with both the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), as an aviation safety inspector, and the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), where he was the only FAA-certificated major accident investigator for aircraft maintenance. His active investigatory experience is based in Title 14 Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) Part 43, Part 65, Part 91, Part 119, Part 121, Part 125, Part 129, Part 135 (9 or less) and (10 or more), Part 145 and Part 147. He provides experience into both general aviation and major accident investigations, of both fixed wing and rotorcraft, plus he employed root cause analysis into these accidents. His experience investigating Parts 121 and 135 included a vast knowledge of both passenger and air cargo cultures, in both operations and maintenance.
Prior to Federal FAA and NTSB service, Stephen Carbone worked over 19 years for a major air cargo airline, in both operations and maintenance. He was a ramp operations supervisor in JFK International airport. His maintenance experience was as both a hangar (heavy maintenance) and line aircraft technician in Memphis International airport and Omaha’s Eppley Airfield. Before joining the NTSB, he was a line supervisor overseeing 35 mechanics in Newark-Liberty International airport.
Stephen Carbone taught safety classes at the FAA Academy and the NTSB Academy. This part of his career included writing and revising FAA safety inspector courses and NTSB investigator classes, which were taught to aviation safety, military and law enforcement professionals from across the globe.
This is what Stephen Carbone brings to the aviation industry through AMSP: hard-earned experience, first-hand knowledge acquired in the field and an understanding of what threats to safety exist to any aviation organization, from general aviation to a major airline to a repair station contractor.
AMSP represents safety.
