Aviation Safety: System Safety Approach Needs Further Integration Into Faa's Oversight of Airlines

ISBN-10: 1422304302
ISBN-13: 9781422304303
Series: Aviation Safety
Pages: 52
Language: English
Published: 2006-03
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
Author: Gerald L. Dillingham

Description

The FAA uses the Air Transport. Oversight System (ATOS) to oversee 7 legacyÓ airlines & 9 other airlines. This report refers to airlines that are not in ATOS as non-legacy airlines. Two other processes are used to oversee 99 non-legacy passenger airlines (NLPA), which represent a fast-growing segment of the commercial aviation passenger industry & carried 200 million passengers. in 2004. These establish a set of inspection activities for NLPA, & use principles of system safety to identify additional risk-based inspections for those airlines. This report assesses the processes used by FAA to ensure the safety of NLPA. Reviewed the strengths of FAA's inspection oversight for NLPA & the issues that hinder its effectiveness. Charts & tables.