Investigative authorities in 18 countries addressed a total of 88 aviation safety recommendations to the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) in 2016, EASA says.
The number of recommendations was essentially unchanged from the two previous years, EASA said in its 2016 Annual Safety Recommendations Review, issued in May. Click here to see the report.
The review noted that the 88 recommendations sprang from investigations of 39 accidents and 11 serious incidents, as well as one study. More than one-third of the recommendations were related to three major occurrences:
- The Aug. 23, 2013, crash of a Eurocopter (now Airbus Helicopters) AS332 L2 Super Puma during an approach to Sumburgh Airport in the United Kingdom’s Shetland Islands resulted in 20 safety recommendations. All 16 occupants survived, but four had serio…
