2019 Safety review A
s we welcome the start of 2020 and the new decade, it is an opportunity to reflect on 2019, review our safety statistics, and focus on our safety objectives for 2020. With the RAAus Occurrence Management System (OMS) now 4 years old, a focus for 2020 is to look at improving how we manage our data in order to offer you, our members, more visibility of RAAus safety information, occurrence types and safety focuses. This should also give members insight into how RAAus collates, analyses and utilises your reports to distribute information to members.
Accident & Incident Breakdown Nearly half of our accident and incident reports can be categorised as operational occurrences, many of which are due to aircraft control management issues, runway events, communications, flight preparation / navigation and fuel related occurrences.
So let’s take a look at the data RAAus members lodged 299 reports through our OMS throughout 2019, which consisted of:
Report Type Accident Incident Hazard Defect Complaint Total
Number of Reports 58 170 5 24 42 299
Injuries RAAus had a total of 5 fatal reports throughout the 2019 calendar year, 2 more than 2018. We also had 3 occurrences resulting in serious injury, and 16 occurrences involving minor injury.
Injury Type Fatal Serious Minor Nil
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Number of Occurrences 5 3 16 203
