In December 1995, the House of Representatives Standing
Committee on Transport, Communications and Infrastructure
(HORSCOTCI) published its "Plane Safe" report, an inquiry into
safety in the general aviation and commuter sectors of the aviation
industry. Recommendation (e) of the report was that:
"the Civil Aviation Safety
Authority and the Bureau of Air Safety Investigation prepare and
publish safety indicators;"
In response to that recommendation this report has been produced
jointly by the Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA), the Bureau
of Air Safety Investigation (BASI) and the Department of Transport
and Regional Development.
The report presents a series of indicators which provide a broad
view of the national aviation system and its operation. The
indicators show trends in Australian aviation activity, in industry
performance, in the number and rate of aviation accidents, and in
the number of three significant types of incidents.
While some of the information contained in this document has
been published previously, this is the first occasion on which such
a wide range of aviation data has been compiled by these three
organisations.