PASO, a flight operational quality assurance (FOQA) information sharing program, has had a demonstrable impact on safety at San José, Costa Rica’s Juan Santamaría International Airport, and supporters would like to see the program expanded geographically and in terms of the type of data that is collected, analyzed and shared, according to interviews by AeroSafety World, International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) working papers and other documents.
PASO is the Spanish acronym for Programa de Acción de la Seguridad Operacional, or Safety Action Program. The pilot program that eventually became PASO was first discussed during an ICAO Global Aviation Safety Roadmap workshop in May 2008 in Bogotá, Colombia. In November, at the first ICAO Regional Aviation Safety Group–Pan America (RASG-PA) meeting, the project was discussed and approved, and COCESNA/ACSA (Central American Corporation for Air Navigation Services/Central American Agency for Aeronautics Safety) was selected to i…
