Aviation Safety: FAA Can Be More Proactive in Promoting Aviation Safety
(Testimony, 01/12/95, GAO/T-RCED-95-81).

The same number of passengers died in crashes involving large airlines
and commuter planes in 1994 as in the previous four years combined,
raising questions about what can be done to make an already safe system
even safer. Although the U.S. air transport system has achieved a high
level of safety, GAO testified that several longstanding problems not
only handicap the Federal Aviation Administration's (FAA) ability to
effectively administer its oversight responsibilities but also inhibit
its ability to be more proactive in promoting safety. GAO suggests that
FAA can take further steps to better promote safety. Most importantly,
FAA needs to be increasingly proactive, rather than reactive. To do so,
however, FAA must overcome several challenges, including ensuring that
its staff keeps pace with advances in aviation technology and that it
has accurate, reliable, and timely information with which to better
identify emerging safety problems and make the hard choices as to which
safety improvements are the most urgent and critical.

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 REPORTNUM:  T-RCED-95-81
     TITLE:  Aviation Safety: FAA Can Be More Proactive in Promoting 
             Aviation Safety
      DATE:  01/12/95
   SUBJECT:  Air transportation operations
             Airline regulation
             Aircraft accidents
             Safety standards
             Accident prevention
             Regulatory agencies
             Inspection
             Aircraft maintenance
             Aircraft pilots
             Flight training
IDENTIFIER:  FAA National Resource Specialist Program
             FAA Airport Surface Detection Equipment Radar
             FAA Automated Terminal Doppler Radar Warning System
             FAA Safety Performance Analysis Subsystem
             
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