Flight Safety Foundation considers calling for regional accident investigation bureaus

The Flight Safety Foundation thinks that creating new, regionally based aircraft crash investigation teams could help bring impartiality and expertise to crash probes that might otherwise be hamstrung by politics, bias and technical inexperience. Recent commercial aircraft crashes and resulting investigations have led the non-profit to consider recommending such investigation teams be formed, at least in some regions of the globe, says Flight Safety Foundation CE Hassan Shahidi. “A regional model would be good first step… We are looking into it,” Shahidi said. Should the group approve the idea, it could recommend it to ICAO, which sets guidelines for aviation crash investigations. <br/>