Banjul Accord Group Accident Investigation Agency (BAGAIA) and the Southern African Development Community Aviation Safety Organisation (SASO), have signed a Memorandum of Cooperation.
The MOC was signed by BAGAIA Commissioner , Engineer Charles Irikefe Erhueh and SASO Executive Director, Mr. Kabo Phutietsile at the AFI Aviation Week in Libreville, Gabon holding from 15th to 19th July 2024
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Fillers indicate that the MOC aims at strengthening SASO and BAGAIA’s performance in terms of enhancing safe and secure civil aviation in accordance with the provisions of the Convention on International Civil Aviation and the Protocols.
Furthermore, this collaboration will aid in establishing a framework to facilitate the exchange of information and expertise between the Parties. Also, it encourages the formalising, consolidating, promoting, and sharing of experiences in aviation safety with other Regional Safety Oversight Organisations ( RSOO) and Regional Accident Investigation Organisations (RAIOs).
Both parties will embark on joint participation in activities aiming at implementing the critical elements of a state safety oversight system.
Similarly, they will build closer cooperation in the process through the harmonisation of regulations, manuals, procedures, and programmes with the main objective of assisting Member States to comply with ICAO requirements
