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Aviation safety is the study and practice of managing risks in aviation. This includes preventing aviation accidents and incidents through research, educating air travel personnel, passengers and the general public, as well as the design of aircraft and aviation infrastructure. The aviation industry is subject to significant regulation and ...
Most of the Federal Aviation Regulations, including Part 25, commenced on February 1, 1965. Prior to that date, airworthiness standards for airplanes in the transport category were promulgated in Part 4b of the US Civil Air Regulations which was in effect by November 1945. Effective August 27, 1957, Special Civil Air Regulation (SR) 422 was the ...
In the early days of interstate air travel, the prevalent thought at the time was that government regulation was necessary to protect and promote the fledgling industry. For example, the then dominant rail industry was forbidden from a financial interest in airlines to prevent them from smothering competition in the industry. [ 5 ]
To best address this question, one must look at the risks of air travel in general and what the data says about its safety. Air travel in the U.S. is remarkably safe and has only become safer with ...
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy reassured the American public that air travel is safe in the wake of a deadly D.C. plane crash last week that killed more than 60 people and a plane crash in ...
The act also transferred air safety regulation from the CAB to the FAA, and gave it sole responsibility for a joint civil-military system of air navigation and air traffic control. The FAA's first administrator, Elwood R. Quesada , was a former Air Force general and adviser to President Eisenhower .
The Civil Aeronautics Board (CAB) was an agency of the federal government of the United States, formed in 1940 from a split of the Civil Aeronautics Authority [1] and abolished in 1985, that regulated aviation services (including scheduled passenger airline service [2]) and, until the establishment of the National Transportation Safety Board in 1967, conducted air accident investigations.
National Transportation Safety Board investigators document the wreckage of the aircraft involved in the Jan. 29, 2025, mid-air collision over the Potomac River near Reagan National Airport ...