For Latin American and Caribbean airlines and their regulators, today’s threats are far more alike than different compared with those facing airlines in other parts of the world, according to regional aviation specialists who also say flight data analysis and unprecedented sharing of information hold the key to further significant safety improvements.
Flight operational safety has no single owner; the responsibility for safety belongs to everyone on both the public and private sides of aviation, said Jaime Alarcón Pérez, director general of the Dirección General de Aeronáutica Civil of Chile (DGAC). That means, in effect, that every new initiative implies both sides working together with greater unity of purpose than ever. He was among presenters in October 2012 at Flight Safety Foundation’s International Air Safety Seminar in Santiago, Chile.
Chile has followed the internationally accepted road map for all states in implementing a national program for operational safety …
