Aviation Safety Better Management Controls Are Needed to Improve Faa's Safety Enforcement and Compliance Efforts

By General Accounting Office

Book Id: WPLBN0000001336
Format Type: PDF eBook
File Size: 0.8 MB
Reproduction Date: 2005

Title:	Aviation Safety Better Management Controls Are Needed to Improve Faa's Safety Enforcement and Compliance Efforts
Author:	General Accounting Office
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Language:	English
Subject:	Government publications, Accountability in government, United States. General Accounting Office
Collections:	Government Library Collection, Government Accountability Integrity Reliability Office Collection
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Publisher:	United States General Accounting Office (Gao)


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Government Accountability Integrity Reliability Office Collection

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Excerpt: FAA relied on administrative actions such as warning notices to close most of its enforcement cases-53 percent of the nearly 200,000 enforcement actions taken during fiscal years 1993 through 2003-and closed about 28 percent with legal sanctions, such as fines. The administrative actions include those taken in response to violations that were self-reported under FAA?s industry partnership programs, some of which allow airlines and pilots to self-report violations that, in many cases, FAA then closes administratively. In addition, when FAA managers recommend legal sanctions, they are often reduced by FAA legal counsel staff. For example, FAA managers recommended fines totaling about $334 million for fiscal years 1993-2003; that amount was subsequently reduced to about $162 million. According to FAA, it reduces or eliminates the sanctions when it has proof that the violator is attempting to correct the violation or new evidence arises that may exonerate the alleged violator. Annually, FAA closed about 3,200 cases (about 18 percent of the total cases) without taking action. Cases were often closed in this manner because the investigative reports prepared by inspectors who initially identified the possible violations lacked sufficient evidence, according to FAA. FAA has established some management controls...