Download or read book Critical Lapses in Federal Aviation Administration s Safety Oversight of Airlines Abuses of Regulatory Partnership Programs written by James Oberstar and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2009-12 with total page 744 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hearing to review the results of an oversight investigation. Two FAA Aviation Safety Inspectors have provided evidence raising serious questions of conduct violating the Fed. Aviation Reg¿s. (FARs) in the inspection and maint. program of Southwest Airlines (SWA). FAA employees have engaged in conduct, ¿which constitutes a violation of Fed. law, rule or reg¿n., gross mismgt., an abuse of authority and a substantial damage to public safety.¿ The Maint. Inspector for SWA knowingly allowed the airline to operate in March 2007 (and possibly beyond), and well after the inspection deadlines on a mandatory FAA Airworthiness Directive. There may be a pattern of regulatory abuse and that these regulatory lapses may be more widespread. Illustrations.
Download or read book Critical Lapses in Federal Aviation Administration Safety Oversight of Airlines written by United States. Congress and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-03-15 with total page 744 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Critical lapses in Federal Aviation Administration safety oversight of airlines : abuses of regulatory "partnership programs" : hearing before the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, House of Representatives, One Hundred Tenth Congress, second session, April 3, 2008.
Download or read book Critical Lapses in Federal Aviation Administration Safety Oversight of Airlines written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 746 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Critical Lapses in Federal Aviation Administration Safety Oversight of Airlines written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 720 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Rational Accidents written by John Downer and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2024-01-16 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An unflinching look at the unique challenges posed by complex technologies we cannot afford to let fail—and why the remarkable achievements of civil aviation can help us understand those challenges. Nuclear reactors, deep-sea drilling platforms, deterrence infrastructures—these are all complex and formidable technologies with the potential to fail catastrophically. In Rational Accidents, John Downer outlines a new perspective on technological failure, arguing that undetectable errors can lurk in even the most rigorous and “rational” assessments of these systems due to the inherent limits of engineering tests and models. Downer finds that it should be impossible, from an epistemological viewpoint, to achieve the near-perfect reliability that we require of our most safety-critical technologies. There is, however, one such technology that demonstrably appears to achieve these “impossible” reliabilities: jetliners. Downer looks closely at civil aviation and how it has reckoned with the problem of failure. He finds that the way we conceive of jetliner reliability hides the real practices by which it is achieved. And he shows us why those practices are much less transferrable across technological domains than we are led to believe. Fully understanding why jetliners don't crash, he concludes, should lead us to doubt the safety of other “ultra-reliable” technologies. A unique and sobering exploration of technological reliability from an STS perspective, Rational Accidents is essential reading for understanding why our most safety-critical technologies are even more dangerous than we believe.
Download or read book Aviation Safety written by Gerald L. Dillingham (au) and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2006-03 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The FAA uses the Air Transport. Oversight System (ATOS) to oversee 7 legacyÓ airlines & 9 other airlines. This report refers to airlines that are not in ATOS as non-legacy airlines. Two other processes are used to oversee 99 non-legacy passenger airlines (NLPA), which represent a fast-growing segment of the commercial aviation passenger industry & carried 200 million passengers. in 2004. These establish a set of inspection activities for NLPA, & use principles of system safety to identify additional risk-based inspections for those airlines. This report assesses the processes used by FAA to ensure the safety of NLPA. Reviewed the strengths of FAA's inspection oversight for NLPA & the issues that hinder its effectiveness. Charts & tables.
Download or read book Federal Aviation Administration s Oversight of Foreign Airline Safety written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Public Works and Transportation. Subcommittee on Investigations and Oversight and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Distributed to some depository libraries in microfiche.
Download or read book Aviation Safety aircraft Passenger Survivability and Cabin Safety written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Public Works and Transportation. Subcommittee on Investigations and Oversight and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 840 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Oversight of Federal Aviation Administration safety programs written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. Subcommittee on Aviation and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Collaborating with Industry to Ensure Regulatory Oversight written by Russell William Mills and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Voluntary programs are a fast growing and increasingly important policy tool that is being used by regulatory agencies to increase compliance and adherence to rules (Haufler 2001). Voluntary programs are alternative regulatory regimes used by government managers to foster a free exchange of information between industry and regulators by incentivizing the self-policing and self-reporting of regulatory violations to regulators in exchange for reduced enforcement action. In the wake of large-scale failures of voluntary programs at Securities and Exchange Commission and Minerals Management Service, many observers and elected-officials have concluded, as did former SEC chairman Christopher Cox, that voluntary regulation does not work. However, voluntary programs may offer agencies valuable sources of information that can be used to proactively revise and create new regulations and reduce the need for reactionary policymaking following large scale focusing events. In its role as the primary developer and enforcer of safety regulations, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) employs a cadre of about 3,000 inspectors in its Flight Standards Service branch (AFS) to oversee the more than 250,000 aircraft in the United States. The FAA long ago realized that its inspectors would never be able to inspect the maintenance operations of all aircraft occupying the airspace above the United States. Since 1976, the FAA has operated voluntary reporting, auditing, and training programs with the aviation industry to ensure an exchange of safety information to guide future safety regulations. Using a multi-method approach that draws on a variety of primary data sources including government documents, interviews with FAA and air carrier officials, survey data, and safety reporting data, this dissertation will explore the design, implementation, and oversight of voluntary safety programs used by the FAA to ensure regulatory compliance by air carriers. The major findings of this dissertation suggest that voluntary programs, if structured properly, can foster proactive bureaucratic policy learning that can reduce the need for reactionary policy-making following highly salient focusing events. Finally, a set of actionable policy and management lessons learned are presented that offer insight to strategies for the further use of voluntary programs in other sectors.
Download or read book FAA s Safety Enforcement Program written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Public Works and Transportation. Subcommittee on Investigations and Oversight and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Semiannual Report to Congress on the Effectiveness of the Civil Aviation Security Program written by United States. Federal Aviation Administration and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Federal Aviation Administration s Airline Safety Inspection Program written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Public Works and Transportation. Subcommittee on Aviation and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Federal Aviation Administration s Enforcement Program and the Recertification of Carriers who Have Had Operating Certificates Revoked written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Public Works and Transportation. Subcommittee on Investigations and Oversight and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book FAA Oversight of the Commuter Airline Industry written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Public Works and Transportation. Subcommittee on Investigations and Oversight and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Commercial Airline Safety Oversight written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Subcommittee on Aviation Operations, Safety, and Security and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Oversight of Airport and Airline Security Programs written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Public Works and Transportation. Subcommittee on Aviation and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
