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  OFFICE MEMO          NASA/ASRS URL                          Date:5/2/96

You may wish to provide links from your Aero.Com site to NASA's Aviation Safety Reporting System (ASRS) home page at:

http://www-afo.arc.nasa.gov/ASRS/ASRS.html

The "ASRS" must be in uppercase, all else in lowercase.

The ASRS web pages provide information on program purposes and structure, FAA immunity policies, limitations and provisions, the ability to download Adobe Acrobat versions of ASRS Pilot and Controller reporting forms, and Acrobat versions of recent issues of ASRS's CALLBACK and ASRS Directline newsletters.

The Aviation Safety Reporting System (ASRS) was established in 1975 under a Memorandum of Agreement between the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). FAA provides most of the program funding; NASA administers the program and sets its policies in consultation with the FAA and the aviation community.

The ASRS collects, analyzes, and responds to voluntarily submitted aviation safety incident reports in order to lessen the likelihood of aviation accidents. ASRS data are used to:

1.	Identify deficiencies and discrepancies in the National Aviation System (NAS) so that these can be remedied by appropriate authorities.
2.	Support policy formulation and planning for, and improvements to, the NAS.
3.	Strengthen the foundation of aviation human factors safety research. This is particularly important since it is generally conceded that over two-thirds of all aviation accidents and incidents have their roots in human performance errors.

ASRS currently processes more than 30,000 aviation safety incident reports submitted each year by pilots, controllers, and others, world-wide.

Charles R. Drew
ASRS Internet Administrator
625 Ellis Street, Suite 305
Mountain View, CA 94043
Phone: (415) 969-3969
e-mail: chuck_drew@asrs1.arc.nasa.gov