The Federal Government has constituted a 10—man committee to review the 120 safety recommendations of the Accident Investigation Bureau (AIB) since its inception.
The committee was inaugurated on Wednesday by the Commissioner of AIB, Mr Akin Olateru, at the bureau's headquarters at the Murtala Muhammed Airport, Lagos.
Olateru said that members of the committee were drawn from AIB, Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) and the Ministry of Transportation.
He said to ensure balance and objectivity, the Minister of State for Aviation, Sen. Hadi Sirika, also approved the appointment of Capt Kiddie Dare and Mr Gbolahan Abatan as consultants to the committee.
The commissioner said :"The main purpose of today's event is to inaugurate a specially constituted committee on the effectiveness of the safety recommendations made by the bureau from inception.
"This becomes necessary in order to consolidate the remarkable efforts being made by this management since assumption of office to extend the frontiers of aviation safety, not only in Nigeria but globally.
"We inherited 27 outstanding accident reports out of which we have published 10 as at the end of 2017.
"These reports generated 35 safety recommendations. We hope to release another set of six accident reports before the end of May, 2018."
He said the committee would engage the affected stakeholders on the effectiveness of the safety recommendations addressed to them.
According to him, they are to submit their report to the AIB management, which will work on it for the benefits of the aviation industry and the entire world.
Olateru explained that safety recommendations were as critical as the investigation itself as it is the lever used to effect safety changes and improvements in the aviation industry.
He said : "ICAO also describes accident investigation as a process conducted for the purpose of accident prevention.
"This includes the gathering and analysis of information, the drawing of conclusions, including the determination of causes and, when appropriate, the making of safety recommendations.
"The purpose of accident investigation, which is to improve aviation safety cannot be achieved if our recommendations are not found to be effective by the stakeholders.
"The recommendations guide the regulators, operators, the Ministry and other stakeholders in the industry.
It is noteworthy that the Bureau's accident investigation and safety recommendations have recorded positive impacts in the national and global aviation arena.
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