Representative European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA), Mr. Nicholas Leroy, at the recent BAGAIA aircraft accident investigation workshop cited political interference and deceased family pressures as forms of external pressures accident investigators should be prepared to face in the course of their duty.l
Leroy who said this at the closing of the Course held from June 3 to 7, 2004 at the Farmington Hotel, Monrovia, Liberia, therefore charged aircraft accident investigators to be prepared to deploy ways always as the job comes at an instant’s notice.
He said: “As investigators, you should be ever ready to move to the crash site whenever you are called upon irrespective of the situation, you will be faced with political interference, deceased family pressures, and all other forms of pressures.
“Note that you’re expected to produce a report at the end of the day no matter the situation. Accident Investigations entail so many challenges.”
The EASA representative under the EU-ASA Project urged the participants that all that they have learned in the training should be used as tools going forward.
He further charged them to be prepared to always meet new challenges every day.