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Industry<br />
average<br />
0.37<br />
0.61<br />
<strong>IATA</strong><br />
members<br />
0.41<br />
0.25<br />
North America<br />
0.10<br />
0.10<br />
In 2011, aviation was safer than<br />
ever. Even so, safety programs<br />
are being strengthened. The<br />
ultimate goal remains zero<br />
accidents.<br />
The regional breakdown of<br />
2011 safety figures show that<br />
some regions are in need of<br />
more help than others. Africa is<br />
the region most in need of improvement,<br />
and aviation safety<br />
work on the continent typifies<br />
industry efforts on the global<br />
stage.<br />
Although Africa continues to<br />
post the worst safety statistics,<br />
2011 saw a 56% improvement<br />
in the region over the previous<br />
year. IOSA has made a big<br />
difference. <strong>IATA</strong> committed $3<br />
million to its Partnership for<br />
Safety program in Africa to help<br />
the continent’s carriers achieve<br />
IOSA recognition. The accident<br />
rate for African airlines that<br />
are on the IOSA registry was<br />
almost equivalent to the world<br />
Latin America<br />
& the Caribbean<br />
1.28<br />
1.87<br />
average, and was 80% better<br />
than that for non-IOSA carriers<br />
in Africa (1.84 accidents<br />
per million flights versus 9.31<br />
accidents per million flights).<br />
Indeed, no IOSA-certified carrier<br />
was involved in a Westernbuilt<br />
jet accident in 2011 in<br />
Africa.<br />
The <strong>IATA</strong>-funded<br />
Implementation Program for<br />
Safe Operations in Africa<br />
(IPSOA) has also been<br />
extremely influential. IPSOA<br />
provided airlines with flight data<br />
analysis tools, backed up by<br />
regional seminars to ensure the<br />
data was used accurately. This<br />
was effective in preventing the<br />
unstable approaches that are a<br />
precursor to runway excursions,<br />
which are the largest cause<br />
of accidents. Deviations from<br />
optimal flight trajectories were<br />
reduced 56%. This program<br />
ended in 2011, and is being<br />
replaced on a global basis with<br />
the Global Safety Information<br />
FEATURE<br />
How safe can we be?<br />
Europe<br />
0.00<br />
0.45<br />
Africa<br />
3.27<br />
7.41<br />
Western-built jet hull loss<br />
rate per million sectors.<br />
# 21<br />
Middle East &<br />
North Africa<br />
2.02<br />
0.72<br />
Commonwealth of<br />
Independent States<br />
1.06<br />
0.00<br />
Blue is 2011<br />
Gray is 2010<br />
Center (GSIC) Flight Data<br />
eXchange (FDX) program,<br />
which will provide performance<br />
assessments at every commercial<br />
runway worldwide.<br />
The African safety action plan<br />
is working. Greater participation<br />
in industry programs will<br />
help improve the region’s safety<br />
statistics. Nigeria, Madagascar,<br />
and Egypt have all approved<br />
IOSA at the national level.<br />
Poor safety oversight in Africa<br />
remains an issue, however,<br />
and more African nations must<br />
adopt IOSA as the global standard<br />
to follow.<br />
An example of leadership on<br />
the continent, Nigeria is in<br />
the process of implementing<br />
Performance-Based<br />
Navigation across 24 airports.<br />
But elsewhere a general lack of<br />
investment in African aviation<br />
infrastructure is holding back<br />
overall safety improvements.<br />
Infrastructure built through<br />
North Asia<br />
0.00<br />
0.34<br />
Asia Pacific<br />
0.25<br />
0.80<br />
consultation with all aviation<br />
stakeholders and predicated on<br />
global standards will help cut<br />
accident rates even further.<br />
The African Safety Summit,<br />
meanwhile, expands the reach<br />
of industry efforts to improve<br />
safety on the continent. All<br />
African airlines and civil aviation<br />
authorities are invited to attend<br />
to learn best practices and to<br />
help drive a safety culture in<br />
the region. The summit has two<br />
ambitious goals for 2015: to<br />
reduce Africa’s overall accident<br />
rate to the global average and<br />
to remove African carriers from<br />
the European list of banned<br />
airlines. <strong>IATA</strong> does not support<br />
banned lists, preferring to work<br />
with airlines to adopt global<br />
standards in safety.