The ''Junta de Investigación de Accidentes de Aviación Civil'' (JIAAC), in English the Civil Aviation Accident Investigation Board, was an agency of
Argentina
Argentina (), officially the Argentine Republic ( es, link=no, República Argentina), is a country in the southern half of South America. Argentina covers an area of , making it the second-largest country in South America after Brazil, th ...
under the purview of the
Ministry of Transport
A ministry of transport or transportation is a ministry responsible for transportation within a country. It usually is administered by the ''minister for transport''. The term is also sometimes applied to the departments or other government ag ...
of the
Argentine Nation that investigated air accidents. Its headquarters were in
Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires ( or ; ), officially the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires ( es, link=no, Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires), is the capital and primate city of Argentina. The city is located on the western shore of the Río de la Plata, on South ...
.
Its mission was to determine the causes of accidents and incidents that occurred in the field of civil aviation, in order to then recommend effective actions aimed at avoiding the occurrence of air events in the future, the agency worked to promote operational safety in the entire field of civil, national and international aviation. It had four administrative regions. The board was replaced by the Junta de Seguridad en el Transporte (JST) ("Transportation Safety Board") in 2019, as stipulated by Law 27,514,
Organización de la JIAAC
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Junta de Investigaciones de Accidentes de Aviación Civil. Retrieved on January 28, 2011. The new JST expanded its studies and research to all modes of transportation. It investigates aeronautical accidents and incidents as well as railway, automotive, maritime, river and lake accidents, as well as multimodal interface accidents.
Pamela Suárez was the last president of the JIAAC.
See also
* Aerolíneas Argentinas Flight 644
* Aerolíneas Argentinas Flight 707
* LAPA Flight 3142
LAPA Flight 3142 was a scheduled Buenos Aires– Córdoba flight operated by the Argentine airline Líneas Aéreas Privadas Argentinas. The flight was operated with a Boeing 737-204C, registration LV-WRZ, that crashed on 31 August 1999 at 20:5 ...
* Sol Líneas Aéreas Flight 5428
* Villa Castelli helicopter collision
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References
External links
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Government of Argentina
Aviation organisations based in Argentina
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