Greater cooperation among European aviation stakeholders is required to help the industry cope with increasing air traffic, diminishing resources and new technologies, the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) says.
In its European Plan for Aviation Safety (EPAS), 2018–2022, made public on Friday, EASA said it aimed to provide a “coherent and transparent framework for safety work at [the] regional level, helping the identification of major safety risks and actions to take, supporting member states to implement their state safety programmes (SSP) and the global Aviation Safety Plan (GASP), and aiding the sharing of best practice and knowledge.”
Among the strategies endorsed by the report are improving safety by improving safety management and using a data collection and analysis program known as Data4Safety, designed to collect all da…
