FAA Hated in US, but Loved Overseas
NY Times:
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Criticized in U.S., the F.A.A. Is Seen in Many Regions as a First-Rate Regulator
By NICOLA CLARK and HEATHER TIMMONS
Published: May 8, 2008
Despite the heightened scrutiny of the Federal Aviation Administration, regulators elsewhere say they still view the American agency as a model for safety and regulatory compliance.
An important measure of success of these agencies, after all, remains the accident rate, and the United States has the lowest. Safety records in Latin America and Africa are the worst, with accident rates as high as six times the global average.
In the Asia-Pacific region, where passenger traffic is growing quickly, regulation can be a patchwork system. Even in the European Union, where national regulators are held to account at the European bloc’s level, the number of accidents last year was far higher than in the United States. [
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