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Improving Safety in Air Navigation |
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Flying is the safest way of travelling.
There have been fewer fatalities in the entire history of civil aviation over the world than there are road deaths every year in Europe and in the U.S.
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Safety is the top priority in aviation. In fact the main purpose of Air Traffic Management (ATM) services is to ensure that airplanes depart, fly and land safely, while maintaining the most efficient operational and economic conditions.
Safety is EUROCONTROL’s raison d’être. Our aim is to ensure that air traffic management services, of which air traffic control is a part, remain safe today and in the future.
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Safety in European air traffic management |
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Fact sheet on EUROCONTROL's role in air traffic safety |
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EUROCONTROL Safety Policy (revised June 2008) [132 KB] |
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Reducing incidents while traffic continues to grow |
The biggest challenge for safety is traffic growth because when traffic doubles, risk is squared. And traffic is growing by about 5% a year, which means that there will be twice as many airplanes in the sky in 2020 as there are now.
As the European Organisation for the Safety of Air Navigation, EUROCONTROL is intensifying its efforts to maintain the highest safety levels. In fact safety performance needs to be improved ten-fold to make sure that the rate of accidents does not increase.
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European Safety Programme for Air Traffic Management |
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Watch our first 'Fly' programme on air traffic management |
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2006 was the safest year on record for aviation in Europe and the third consecutive year in which there were no ATM-service related accidents. This was despite an all-time annual record of almost 10 million flights in European airspace.
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Active in all areas of air traffic management safety |
EUROCONTROL is actively involved in all areas of Air Traffic Management (ATM) safety:
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Our researchers are constantly testing and developing new safety management concepts and safety assessment methodologies and tools for the benefit of the entire aviation community.
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