Risk Management Magazine

I’ve been told many times in my Army aviation career that it’s the little things that will come up and bite you. While this bit of advice has served me well throughout my career and life in general, an accident that happened to a fellow aviator several years ago really drove home this point.

For those of us who have been involved in an accident with or while riding a motorcycle, we’ve all either heard or said, “I never saw him.”

It was a beautiful spring morning in April 1993. The sun was shining and the temperature was just right. As I rode down the road, I didn’t have a care in the world.