THE NATIONAL ACADEMIES OF SCIENCES, ENGINEERING, AND MEDICINE
Transportation Research Board
Committee on Emerging Trends in Aviation Safety
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Congressional Briefing
Thursday, August 8, 2024 – 1:30 p.m.
via Zoom
on
Emerging Hazards in Commercial Aviation—Report 2:
Ensuring Safety During Transformative Changes
As commercial aviation evolves, it is essential to ensure aviation safety as transformative technologies and new industry entrants emerge. Supporting the safe adoption of innovation will require updating Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) processes for certifying novel aircraft designs, developing performance-based standards for flight-critical functions, and improving data collection and analysis to detect potential safety issues. Strengthening safety culture at FAA and across the aviation industry is also necessary as new players and technologies are introduced.
Requested by Congress in P.L. 116-260, the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021, and sponsored by the FAA, this new report is the second of a series of six that will be issued from Transportation Research Board of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine over the next 10 years on commercial aviation safety trends in the U.S.
This briefing was for members of Congress and congressional staff only. The report was publicly released on August 13, 2024 and can be found, in its entirety, on the Web site of the National Academies Press.
The first report in the series can be found here.