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The aircraft safety analysis discipline plans, promotes, and coordinates a national safety program that consists of analyzing service history, ranking safety threats, analyzing top ranked safety threats, and designing and validating intervention strategies.

A primary objective in aircraft safety analysis is to provide risk analysis techniques for integrating the combined effects of failure distribution and operational constraints to evaluate and forecast a given problem and the effectiveness of intervening actions.

Chief Scientific and Technical Advisor – Ann Azevedo

Updated: 12:42 am ET August 3, 2007