MOSCOW. Oct 8 (Interfax-AVN) - A series of prominent experts in the aviation sphere have said it is necessary to create a national flight safety fund in Russia.
"It is expedient to create a national flight safety fund in Russia, whose assets should be spent on setting up a R&D institute specializing in flight safety, and developing its achievements in design bureaus, at aircraft plants and in plane operation units," expert Ivan Rubtsov told a round-table discussion of flight safety service in Russia that took place in Moscow on Wednesday.
This point of view is shared by Sergei Kramarenko, ex-deputy chief of the Air Force flight security service, Sergei Somov, ex- chief of the military transport aviation's security service, and other participants in the discussion.
According to Rubtsov, it is necessary to revive the preventive flight safety system that was used quite efficiently in the Soviet Air Force, but has been fully devastated since then.
The previous preventive system was based on the idea of creating a database for registering and analyzing the so-called prerequisites for flight accidents such as pilot mistakes, technical failures, lack of discipline, crew's health, etc.
"This allowed us to detect weak spots in flight work in all spheres and take timely measures to fix them in order to prevent crashes and catastrophes," Rubtsov said.
"Funds for these important measures can be raised from superprofits of operation companies that use resources in their own interests illegally," he stressed.