One of the main reason's I believe the U.S. sets their aviation safety and security so high from the rest of the world is because of the FAA. With all the rules and regulations that the Air Carriers have to comply with it is much a higher standard then the rest of the world. Since other countries operate under the regulations of ICAO which is set at a bare minimum, ICAO has decided to higher the standards so that the government of the other countries should meet.
ICAO had published a report which shows the accident rates by UN region. Of the six regions Asia has the highest annual growth rate in air traffic. There was a total of 121 accidents within the six regions 19 being fatal accidents and 707 fatalities. Asia totaled for twenty percent of the accidents. Of those twenty percent accidents they had the most fatal accidents and fatalities which was the highest of all regions. North America had 35 accidents but of the 35 neither one was a fatal accidents or had any fatalities.
In my perspective even though the U.S accounted for the most accidents what really matter's is neither were fatal or had fatalities. With the U.S. operating and following the rules and regulations of the FAA is what sets them apart from all other countries. I think with ICAO raising the bare minimum standards for the other countries it forces the governments of each country to meet the standards. With each country practicing more safety regulations it can open up more job opportunities for the people to come up with these rules and to imply them.
I was confused by your paragraph referencing accident statistics - one of the reasons being how it read (for example, you state that there were 121 accidents in Asia, but then later write that the US had the most accidents - confusing), but I was also confused by how the ICAO published accident rates specifically relate to this issue. For example, what if a majority of the accidents had very little to do with regulations but instead had to do with human error? Then this would be irrelevant information to include about this topic.
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ReplyDeleteHow does ICAO increasing their standards for countries assist the US if our standards are already better than what their new standards will be? Interesting statistics as well but when were they published?
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