Navy Chief of Safety visits AFSEC

Jeffrey Barnette, chief of the Mishap Analysis and Animation Facility, shows Rear Adm. W. Scott Dillon, Naval Safety Center commander, the remains of a flight recorder during a tour of the Air Force Safety Center, Kirtland Air Force Base, New Mexico on September 6. The MAAF offers a unique capability in the Air Force Safety Center where flight recorder data is recovered, analyzed and input into animation software to create a simulation of what actually happened in a mishap. (U.S. Air Force photo by Keith Wright)

Lt. Cmdr. Ashley Faires, aide to Naval Safety Center commander, Maj. Gen. John T. Rauch Jr., Air Force chief of safety, and Jeffrey Barnette, chief of the Mishap Analysis and Animation Facility, listen while Col. William Culver, chief of the Air Force Safety Center's Aviation Safety Division, discusses the capabilities of the Mishap Analysis and Animation Facility with Rear Adm. W. Scott Dillon, Naval Safety Center commander, during a tour of the safety center on September 6 at Kirtland Air Force Base, New Mexico. The visit helped to further the partnership and cooperation between the two service safety centers through a series of discussions on lessons learned. (U.S. Air Force photo by Keith Wright)