§44735 Limitation on Disclosure of Safety Information

Summary

The FAA must not give the public certain safety reports, data, or other information. That rule covers reports that people or companies send voluntarily (when the law does not force them to send it), reports sent under section 102(e) of the Aircraft Certification, Safety, and Accountability Act, and information used to build or run a safety management system. It includes work from programs such as the Aviation Safety Action Program, Flight Operational Quality Assurance, Line Operations Safety Audit, safety management system materials, and related analyses or studies. If all details that could identify who sent the information are removed, the FAA may share it. The same privacy rule applies to other federal agencies that get these materials from the FAA. It does not stop the National Transportation Safety Board from investigating accidents or from following its own rule (section 1114) to keep voluntarily provided safety information private.