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Chinedu Eze
Banjul Accord Group Accident Investigation Agency (BAGAIA), has adopted the BAGAIA Safety Regulations 2021 to help member states in the sub-region to be compliant with International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) Anne 13 which deals primarily with accident investigation.
The safety regulations presented to member states in March 2021, aims to ensure that all signatories use a common set of regulations for the protection of safety data with purpose of accident investigation and not assignment of blame.
Commissioner of BAGAIA, Charles Irikefe Erhueh, said the adoption was part of some resolutions reached at the sixth Commission Meeting of the BAGAIA, which held in The Gambia, from July 12th to 14th, 2021, with theme: Strengthening BAGAIA through effective Regional Collaboration to keep the focus on solving some of those issues.
Nigeria’s flight safety lab can help other countries – BAGAIA The Punch
Published 12 May 2021
Banjul Accord Group Accident Investigation Agency, an independent body in the West African aviation sector, has said the flight safety laboratory of Nigeria’s Accident Investigation Bureau can provide technical support to other West African countries.
The BAGAIA had announced last week, through its commissioner, a proposal of $1.5m integration for flight data analysis for its member states.
The Commissioner, Charles Erhueh, during a visit to the Guinean Civil Aviation Authority, said the member states, namely The Gambia, Ghana, Nigeria, Guinea, Cape Verde, Liberia and Sierra Leone, would be provided with a core analysis capability with the AIB’s existing FDR/CVR safety lab as the central hub for expert technical support.