Safety standards are different in every country, even in the aviation world each country has a different approach. Today there is a bare minimum standard that many countries use, however some argue as to if these standards are too low. The United States (of course) has led the world in aviation safety, therefore we take the standards and became extreme over achievers. The International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) have set these standards, now there's talk about raising them causing these other countries to meet them. Today ICAO has rules on what language is used, mandated rest requirements, accident investigations, and ways to help with runway safety which are just a few of the many rules they have put into place. ICAO has published an 80 page document that goes into wonderful detail of all they do.
The question is if the safety standard bar should be higher for those who meet the bare minimum. In the document it shows the accident rate compared to by regions. It shows the traffic amount in the region compared to the accident rate. Africa had the highest accident rate compared to their traffic rate, which begs the question as to if these standards are high enough. With africa having the worst score they had just over 1 million planes for traffic with 17 accidents. I think everybody would like to see this number being zero but if there were only 17 accidents (3 being fatal) with over a million flights the numbers aren't that bad. In order to make these numbers closer to zero there could be more rules on rest periods and maybe more standards on maintenance requirements. But honestly I think they should be left alone, if the country wants their numbers to be better, like the United States, then they would increase safety on their own.
It would be nice if other countries tried to better the safety of the aviation world especially in their own home, it could create more jobs by having more mechanics or hiring people to create a new procedures and implement them. But once again I think that it's the duty of the country to do that on their own.
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11 years ago
It would be interesting to see if Africa also has the cheapest airline tickets?
ReplyDeleteAs stated in the instructions, this is a little short. Also, you are missing a link. One thing that I pointed out on another blog is which country/continent had the highest count of accidents. This has the potential to not directly address the topic. For example, you did not expand on the cause of accidents. Are the accidents a result of human error or lack of regulations? I don't know the answer to that question, but it is something that should be addressed in your discussion.
ReplyDeleteThere is a link. It's the last sentence of the first paragraph, it says "80 page document" and the word document is linked to 2011 State of Global Aviation Safety posted by the ICAO.
ReplyDeleteIt's in there. I saw it earlier. Consider adjusting the colors. The links not yet clicked are light yellow, which can appear white on some monitors.
ReplyDeleteIf the country were to set more rules to practice more safety like the U.S. how can we ensure that there numbers would be similar to the U.S.?
ReplyDeleteI agree that the individual member states need to take responsibility for their safety. ICAO does not have a funding mechanism to dictate changes to their members. I think the best way to promote enhancements in aviation safety is through the airline alliance partners. Airlines can only join after a strict review of their operation. The last thing Air France wants is a crash with a smoking SkyTeam logo on it. There needs to be a financial motivation for member states to make changes.
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