You’ve probably read in AeroSafety World about the importance of safety data sharing in aviation. This has been a priority of Flight Safety Foundation for many years, and Foundation founder Jerry Lederer spoke of the issue as long as ago as the 1960s.
As the newest leader of this venerable organization, I join my predecessors in calling for increased data sharing around the world.
Aviation professionals understand that data sharing is crucial to the advancement of aviation safety. While data sharing is advanced and robust in the United States, efforts in other parts of the world need our focus. The International Civil Aviation Organization’s (ICAO’s) Regional Aviation Safety Group–Pan America (RASG-PA) is leading the way in introducing some of the ideas modeled in the United States through the Commercial Aviation Safety Team (CAST).
With the recent cooperative agreement that the Foundation signed with the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration, we look forward t…
