However else European nations may or may not unite, their collaboration in pursuit of civil aviation safety yields practices valuable for non-Europeans to study. A review of representative documents by AeroSafety World found that on the whole, the documents reflect openness and candor about significant challenges, successes and failures — along with strong emphasis on professional obligations to share knowledge with and to learn from peers worldwide.
The International Civil Aviation Organization’s (ICAO’s) Regional Aviation Safety Group–Europe (RASG-EUR) in 2015 described its safety environment as follows: “The region is very complex with various regional safety–related players, each compiling safety data and producing safety information from a different angle. … One of the main challenges, therefore, is to decide on the key risk areas to achieve properly coordinated safety efforts. … The region is an ‘atypical environment’ as regards its regulatory framew…
