9th Meeting of Steering Committee Seoul, Republic of Korea

27 to 20 April 2009

The Need for International Cooperation

Overview by BEA

BEA Bureau of Investigation and Analysis

(for Safety in Civil Aviation)

Permanent

Independent

Prevention

All Reports are Public

Eurocopter ATR

Dassault

Falcon

Turbomeca Socata

State of

Design / Manufacture

Airbus

CFM

Examples of On-Going Investigations

São Paulo, 17 July 2007, TAM, Airbus A320

Machiques, 16 August 2005, West Carribean, MD82

Tegucigalpa, 30 May 2008, TACA, Airbus A320

Khartoum, 30 June 2008, Sudan Airways, A310-324

New York City, 15 January 2009, US Airways, A320

Off Perpignan, 27 Nov. 2008, Air New Zealand, Airbus A320

Lubbock, 27 January 2009, FedEx, ATR-42

Amsterdam, 25 February 2009, Turkish Airlines, Boeing 737

Aberdeen, 1 April 2009, Bond Offshore Helicopters, Super Puma

The Next Accident: What lies Ahead

Are All Accidents “Equal”?

WHEN

WHERE

No accident is like the one before

We use lessons learnt from the

previous ones but…

We still have to learn

Phuket Accident – 17 Sept 2007

Accident site

Citizens from…

Thailand:

occurrence,

operator, registry

USA: manufacture

Japan

Netherlands

Italy

Thailand

Iran

France

Germany

Great Britain

Sweden

Ireland

Australia

USA

Indonesia

Canada

Israel

An accident

that could have been avoided!

We want to know the truth!

Time Pressure and Promises

Final Report

to come soon!

Cooperation

What For?

How?

Knowing and understanding each other

Sharing

Fruitful Investment

Conferences, seminars…

Regional arrangements

Bilateral relations

Conferences, Seminars, Workshops

ISASI / ESASI

APAC ICAO Regional Workshop

BEA / COSCAP-NA: Seminar in Beijing, May 2008

Technical International Meetings

FLIRECP (Flight Recorder Panel) de l’OACI

AIR (Accident Investigators on Recorders)

EUROCAE (European Organization for Civil Aviation Equipment)

Working Group related

to flight recorders for general aviation

Joint Research

on Aircraft Cockpit Voice Recorder

Background Sound Identification

Albania, Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina,

Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Rep., Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia,

Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania,

Luxembourg, Malta, Moldova, Monaco, Neverthelands, Norway, Poland,

Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland,

the Former Yugoslav Rep. of Macedonia, Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom

Code of Conduct

ARAIB

Resource Sharing

Singapore

Macao, China

Korea

Australia

Hong Kong, China

China

Memorandum of Understanding

Tokyo

ARAIC

Aircraft and Railway

Accidents Investigation

Commission

Meeting Operators

Accident Simulation

Information to Families

Related to a Safety Investigation France, …., Singapore

46th Conference of DGCA

OSAKA 2009

Conclusion

We all need recurrent contacts

to share experience and cultural perspectives.

They are the best way to get prepared to the worst!

Thanks Korea