Getting At The Problem

The GAJSC, like its airline counterpart the Commercial Aviation Safety Team (CAST), was established in the 1990s. According to its Web site, GAJSC works to improve general aviation safety through data-driven risk reduction efforts that focus on education, training, and enabling new equipment in general aviation aircraft. The CAST has been spectacularly successful in its efforts, as evidenced by an 80-percent reduction in airline fatal accident rates.

Key Takeaways:

• The General Aviation Joint Safety Committee (GAJSC) was established to improve GA safety through data-driven efforts, but GA accident rates remained largely flat from 2002-2011, unlike the significant reductions seen in commercial aviation.
• The FAA and industry reinvigorated the GAJSC, tasking it with a data-driven approach to accident reduction.
• The GAJSC's Loss of Control (LOC) Work Group subsequently issued two reports (2012 and 2014), analyzing accidents and developing non-regulatory "safety enhancements" to reduce LOC fatal accidents across different flight phases.

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