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Five years free of fatal accidentsGeneral Aviation – Rule Part 135 operators celebrate five years free of fatal accidentsCommercial fixed wing general aviation operators – those whose aircraft carry nine or fewer passengers are celebrating a fatal accident free period of 5 years while it is some 9 years since the last fatality within commercial helicopter operations.
Aviation Industry Association (AIA) Chief Executive Irene King said, “this is a great record but one that we are now coming to expect from our general aviation operators. These operators have invested heavily in putting in place the right safety strategies. It’s about walking the talk and understanding being safe is a lot less expensive than an accident.”
“The record is quite remarkable,” she said, “because these operators undertake a diversity of operations and don’t do the same thing day in day out.
This means that they have to have excellent safety planning to do the job, assess and understand how to mitigate the risks and to provide the safest possible environment for crews and passengers.
The challenge as always will be to ensure we keep our businesses performing at that level. Of recent years we have seen a much greater alignment between regulatory compliance and safety strategies in this sector of the industry. The knowledge, experiences and practices of the larger scheduled operators is now being translated into the general aviation industry.”
AIA recognises safety performance in the industry through its safety recognition awards and members of the general public can go to our website aia.org.nz and review the safety performance of individual companies. The companies listed are outstanding leaders of safety in this industry in their own right.
For more information contact
Irene King 04 4722707 or 021936838
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