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FAA Needs to Improve Risk Assessment Processes for Its Air Transportation Oversight System
U.S. Department of Transportation Office of Inspector General. Report no. AV-2011-026. Dec. 16, 2010. 36 pp. Figures, tables, appendix. www.oig.dot.gov/library-item/5468.
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? asked the Roman poet Juvenal: Who will guard the guards themselves? Had he been living today, he might ask how to oversee those who oversee aviation safety.
The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) needs to provide more oversight of its Air Transportation Oversight System (ATOS), the Office of Inspector General (OIG) says. The latest report reaches essentially the same conclusion as OIG reports in 2002 and 2005.
The FAA uses the ATOS to conduct surveillance of nearly 100 airlines that transport more than 90 percent of U.S. airline passeng…
