The Accident Investigation Bureau (AIB), has announced that the Federal Executive Council (FEC) has approved the use of digital technology to report accident investigations in Nigeria.
The Commissioner of AIB, Engr. Akin Olateru, who made the disclosure in Abuja, Olateru said that the Bureau is delighted to announce that funding has been approved for the development of Advanced Report Generation Utility Engine (ARGUE), a system which will dramatically improve how Air Accident Investigation results are communicated to, and accessed by, stakeholders.
He stated that by and large, accident investigation authorities do an excellent job of investigating aviation occurrences worldwide, through a long evolution of best practices detailed in ICAO Annex 13. Olateru, said that however, “when it comes to communicating the results of investigations, most States still default to the legacy verbose written approach in which reports are published as PDF documents.
“In today’s fast paced world where people often barely skim the headlines, effective marketing of the results of investigations is arguably the next hurdle to overcome, if we are to truly exploit the lessons learned.”
