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2 Measures of Aviation Safety and Sources of Data
Pages 7-9

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... . ."1 Annual reports published by many aviation safety organizations also focus on accident rates and their trends, measured in various ways, and many other studies on aviation safety emphasize fatality and fatal accident rates.2 For example, the FAA published the Aviation Safety Action Plan report entitled Zero Accidents: A Shared Responsibility, in February 1995.3 The FAA's Safer Skies initiative (April 1998)
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... . ASRS receives, processes, and analyzes voluntarily submitted incident reports from pilots, air traffic controllers, dispatchers, flight attendants, maintenance technicians, and others.
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... One can already access an array of aviation safety databases, including FAA Accident/Incident Data Systems, the Air Registry, the ASRS, Bureau of Transportation Statistics, the Near Midair Collision System, the NTSB Aviation Accident and Incident Data System, NTSB Safety Recom mendations to the FAA with FAA Responses, and the World Aviation Accident Summary. 11 Additional databases planned for inclusion in ASIAS include ASAP data, FOQA data, and other data.
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