Alaska, with an aircraft accident rate more than twice as high as that of the rest of the United States, should be the subject of a new comprehensive plan to improve aviation safety, the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) says.1
The persistent safety issues in Alaskan aviation are at least in part a result of the failure of the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to implement necessary safety programs, the NTSB said, accompanying that complaint with a safety recommendation calling on the FAA to appoint a working group to “review, prioritize and integrate” the state’s aviation safety needs and ensure that they mesh with the agency’s overall safety enhancement process.
The recommendation was the focus of a safety recommendation report approved by the NTSB in February. Working group members should represent all stakeholder groups in the state’s aviation industry, the NTSB said.
“We need to marshal the resources of the FAA to tackle avia…
