ATSB - "Aviation Safety - a 10 year snap shot"

[turboplanner]

The Australian Transport Safety Bureau is a separate body to CASA.

 

The reason I've started this thread is that this ten year snap shot, reflects poor performance on our part, and changes the dynamics of a number of things.

 

It's likely to put pressure on CASA to be tougher

 

Safety systems like the RAA "SMS" are likely to come under audit scrutiny to ensure they are genuine working systems

 

Supervision, training, standards, behaviour, skills will all come under scrutiny

 

Auditing of the standard and structure of Compliance and Enforcement is likely

 

However, there are opportunities also. The current situation where we rarely hear the results of fatal crashes, and so go on repeating them, due to (a) ATSB not having the finances to investigate every crash, and (b) the Police/RAA combination not being legally able to release their briefing to the Coroner, whose job is to find the cause of death as against cause of crash, is intolerable, and arguably contributing to the numbers in the report.

 

I'm wondering what our lawyer members think of a system where the briefs supplied to the Coroner, and the Coroner's evidence were released to ATSB, and ATSB, under their powers produced a public report?

 

Link to the 10 year snap shot

 

https://www.atsb.gov.au/newsroom/news-items/2015/aviation-safety%E2%80%94a-10-year-snap-shot/

 

 

[kaz3g]

Someone at the ATSB might need to edit this part of the synopsis...

 

General aviation accidents remains too high

 

General aviation experienced 149 accidents in 2014 (the highest in 10 years), 11 of which were fatal (the lowest in 10 years) and another 15 resulted in serious injuries. These accidents led to 17 fatalities and 20 serious injuries. General aviation aircraft were involved in 118 serious incidents in 2014. In 2013 – the last year with available activity data – the general aviation accident rate per departure was almost five times that of commercial air transport. The year 2013 saw a significant decrease in the accident rate compared with the previous 6 years. However, the fatal accident rate was consistent with the 10-year average. Aerial agriculture, followed by private and sport aviation had the highest general aviation accidents rates, while flying training had the lowest.

 

 

[kgwilson]

Gobbledegook. What an awful paragraph.

 

 

[SDQDI]

Actually thinking through it, it might actually still be correct.

 

Inasmuch as maybe some of those 11 fatal crashes and some of those 15 crashes that resulted in injury could have had more than one person affected.

 

A couple of double fatalities and some crashes where more than one person got hurt and the numbers would make a bit of sense.

 

Still horribly hard to interpret though

 

 

[jetjr]

The concept more or tougher oversight of regulation will prevent accidents is not sound. (far can ridiculous)

 

They and others, have been trying that for many years and sees "safety" getting worse or no change in light aviation. Id suggest hours decreasing and cost of compliance going up exponentially.

 

There needs to be a culture where people learn and act upon mistakes, not hide them or alter facts to lessen impacts.

 

Lighter aviation, especially RAA, is largely self reported so loss of trust in the regulator is a big deal.

 

 

[coljones]

The fatal accidents in '13 was the lowest while the fatal accident rate was average. This seems to imply that departures (or hours) in '13 were lower than previous years.