The Annual ICAO Safety Report provides updates on safety indicators, including accidents and related risk factors. Improving the safety of the global air transport system is ICAO’s guiding and most fundamental strategic objective. The Organization works constantly to address and enhance global aviation safety through coordinated activities and targets outlined in […]
The BEA made it a priority to provide information to the victims’ families. Thirty-two different nationalities were counted among the 228 victims, and 12 of these countries requested the status of observer state. The Bureau d’Enquêtes et d’Analyses pour la sécurité de l’aviation civile (BEA) made it a priority to provide […]
The crash of Air France Flight 447 on June 1, 2009, marked the beginning of an exhaustive three-year investigation conducted by the BEA. Here the author reports on the flight recorders readout operations. No one was sure what could be expected from flight recorders after almost two years of being immersed […]
The aim of the Human Factors Working Group was to determine the set of safety provisions that affected the expected behaviors and skills of the crews in this situation. Based on the work already performed by the other working groups, and particularly since the download of the flight recorders in May […]
New issue of The Forum Magazine by ISASI 2017 July – September
Allow me, first of all, to thank the organizers of this conference for having given the Bureau d’Enquêtes et d’Analyses pour la sécurité de l’aviation civile [BEA] a complete half day to speak about the history of the Air France Flight 447 accident investigation, whose final report was published on July […]
Collection of Editors’ Choice
The Bureau of Enquiry and Analysis for Civil Aviation Safety, the BEA (the Bureau of Investigation and Analysis for Civil Aviation Safety; French: Bureau d’Enquêtes et d’Analyses pour la sécurité de l’aviation civile) is an agency of the French government, responsible for investigating aviation accidents and incidents and making safety recommendations based on what is learned from those investigations. […]
ISASI 46 Capt. Ibrahim S. Koshy is the director general of the Aviation Investigation Bureau (AIB) (AT TIME OF ORIGINAL PUBLICATION) of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, a member of the board of the newly established MENASASI Chapter. He is an IOSA senior lead auditor and evaluator with more than 25 […]
