Safe Skies Africa Rep. Trains Accident Investigators
Dennis Jones, a senior NTSB air safety investigator, is embedded with the Kenyan Air Accident Investigation Department as part Safe Skies Africa program, which trains accident investigators in the region.
Dennis Jones, a senior NTSB air safety investigator, is embedded with the Kenyan Air Accident Investigation Department as part Safe Skies Africa program, which trains accident investigators in the region.

According to some statistics, the aviation accident rate in African is nine times worse than anywhere else on earth. But it is improving, partially because of increased focus on the region internationally, but also because of efforts like the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Safe Skies Africa (SSA) program that began in 1998. It is now focusing on increasing the number of African countries that meet international aviation safety standards, and that means training accident investigators.