Safety recommendations

Geographical distribution of the safety recommendations

A safety recommendation may be addressed to the EASA by the Accident Investigation Agency of any country around the globe, following a safety investigation into an occurrence.

Thematic distribution of safety recommendations

In general terms, taking into account the competency of the EASA the safety recommendation may fall into one of the following main categories:

The Accident Investigation Section makes sure that each safety recommendation are processed and acted upon.
In the field of the extension of competency, the EASA will also handle recommendations related to operations and flight crew licensing.

Towards a common safety recommendations management tool in Europe

Safety information sharing and capability of access to occurrence related data is of great value in the area of accident prevention in general. The EASA Accident Investigation Section along with other European Accident Investigating Agencies is developing a European standard for exchanging safety recommendations, which is built upon the already operating ECCAIRS application. This management tool will increase the quality of the current recommending organisation and thus will be another step towards aviation safety.