Foreign carriers' safety records now included on FAA web site

Airline Industry Information, Nov 17, 2000

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The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has expanded its web site to include aviation safety information about all airlines, both domestic and international.

The airline safety database is available at http://nasdac.faa.gov/main.htm and contains records of some 260 air accidents that are searchable by airline name.

The records include a brief description of the accident as well as specifics such as date, location, aircraft type, aircraft registration number, number of passengers, and the number of fatalities and injuries. The database can also be downloaded as an Excel spreadsheet.

The inclusion of international airlines' accidents has come about through the signing of an agreement between the FAA and Airclaims Ltd, a UK-based aviation services company that will maintain a condensed summary of foreign airlines' safety information for data from 1990.

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