Photo caption : Banjul Accord Group Accident Investigation Agency (BAGAIA) Commissioner, Engr. Charles Irikefe Erhueh and the Southern African Development Community Aviation Safety Organisation (SASO) Executive Director Mr. Kabo Phutietsile signing the Memorandum of Cooperation at the AFI Aviation Week in Libreville, Gabon from July 15th to 19th, 2024.
Banjul Accord Group Accident Investigation Agency (BAGAIA) and the Southern African Development Community Aviation Safety Organisation (SASO) have signed a Memorandum of Cooperation (MoC).
The BAGAIA Commissioner, Engr. Charles Erhueh signed for BAGAIA while SASO Executive Director, Mr. Kabo Phutietsile signed for his organisation at the AFI Aviation Week in Libreville, Gabon holding from 15th to 19th July 2024.The MoC, it was learnt is aimed 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.
This collaboration, it was further learnt will aid in establishing a framework to facilitate the exchange of information and expertise between the parties.
Also, it will encourage 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
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