The Regional Aviation Safety Group–Asia and Pacific Regions (RASG-APAC), established in November 20111 as an initiative of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), has staked its success in reducing fatal accidents in commercial air transport on two things: sharing and processing routine flight operations data with the most advanced types of predictive analysis, and significantly increasing state/administration and industry engagement in this effort. This strategic commitment favors collective analysis over expert opinions as the driver of issue prioritization, according to documents reviewed in ASW searches of ICAO website public areas <icao.int>. The group’s leaders acknowledge, however, they must persuade far more of these stakeholders to implement the safety enhancement initiatives published so far.
Prioritization work also considers information from outside the region, including from the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA’s)…
