FAA adopted the Compliance Program in 2015, with the stated goal of using compliance actions such as counseling instead of penalties to address violations of safety standards.
The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has failed to properly evaluate its Compliance Program and therefore cannot be sure that the program is accomplishing the aviation safety objectives that led to its creation, a government watchdog agency says.
In a recent speech, Olumuyiwa Bernard Aliu, president of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) Council, said, “Traditional safety oversight has been focused mainly on assessing compliance using straightforward checklists,…
President's Message, Safety Oversight
With fewer accidents to investigate and learn from, it is widely held that collecting and analyzing data and then sharing the information that results from that process is essential to…
Enforcement actions drop sharply under FAA’s emphasis on corrective actions over penalties.
