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FAA: Shift Away from Enforcement Mindset Enhances Safety

Frank Jackman

Oct 11, 2016
New compliance philosophy seen to be working.

FAA’s new “compliance philosophy,” introduced in 2015, has enabled the agency to aggregate and analyze key safety data voluntarily provided by airlines that are less concerned about being penalized, according to a recent report in ATWOnline. Read the article here. Flight Safety Foundation was an early supporter of the new philosophy. Read more commentary on the philosophy here.

Frank Jackman is editor-in-chief of AeroSafety World.…

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