Sunday, April 11, 2010

Evolution of Federal aviation safety laws and their effectiveness






On December 17th 1903 Orville and Wilbur Wright made the first sustained flight from a plane the brothers built. The flight lasted only 12 seconds, where as it opened the door to the development of the first practical airplane in 1905 and a world wide endeavor to build better planes.

Air transportation was not regulated until the Air Commerce Act of 1926. The Secretary of Commerce established the system to control and regulate air commerce. Some people believed the aircraft could not reach its full economic means without federal action to improve and maintain safety standards; in turn, the Air Commerce Act was passed in 1926. A few years later, in 1934, the Department of Commerce renamed the Aeronautics Branch the Bureau of Air Commerce.

The Bureau of Air Commerce had a small group of airlines to establish the first air traffic control centers to provide en route air traffic control and in 1936 the Bureau took over these centers.

The safety of the Airlines is astonishingly safer that any other mode of transportation. The FAA is effective in improving the safety of flight by developing and implementing new policies and guidelines. Continued operational safety and manufacturing of products will continue to become safer as technology expands and as the airline industry broadens.

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