The International Air Transport Association (Iata) has urged aviation stakeholders to follow global standards and make greater use of operational data in order to improve aircraft safety standards.
“As the number of accidents declines, future safety advances primarily will lie in achieving a better understanding of what happens in the more than 100 000 flights operating safely every day, through analysis of flight information and other data resources,” Iata’s director general and CEO, Alexandre de Juniac, told delegates at Iata’s ‘Safety and Flight Operations Conference’ currently under way in Montreal, Canada. “Iata’s Global Aviation Data Management (GADM) initiative is a crucial part of this effort,” he said.
The GADM programme includes information from more than 470 different organisations, with over 90% of Iata members contributing to at least one of the GADM databases.
De Juniac added that Iata was developing a global database of turbulence reports. “When our innovative turbulence data repository is operational early next year we expect to see a significant decrease in turbulence-related injuries/damage.”
