Aviation Safety: Comparing National and Regional Governmental Regulatory Commercial Oversight Affiliations
Dr. GARY R. LAYTON

Abstract
The ever-increasing scope of aviation safety initiatives across the globe justifies a higher level of coordination. The creation of regional aviation organizations, comprised of experts from multiple nations, would ensure that benefits are shared and that an unnecessary duplication of effort is avoided. Because international airline safety is currently a function of national regulatory oversight, the amalgamation of national programs into regional organizations would decrease accidents through the sharing of resources and the advantages of an economy of scale. It was determined in the study that current aviation regulations are not capable of global oversight. A quasi-experimental 2 x 2 factorial design was used in this study and results through ANOVA. The differing accident rates among different nations indicate a stark contrast and reveal the effects of differing regulations.

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