State Supervisory Commission for Flight Safety explained

Agency Name:	State Supervisory Commission for Flight Safety
Nativename A:	Государственная комиссия по надзору за безопасностью полётов воздушных судов при правительстве СССР
Seal:	Coat of arms ussr1.svg
Formed:	1986
Dissolved:	1992
Headquarters:	Moscow, Russia
Chief1 Name:	Ivan Mashkivsky
Chief1 Position:	chairperson
Parent Agency:	Government of the Soviet Union

The State Supervisory Commission for Flight Safety (Russian: Государственная комиссия по надзору за безопасностью полётов воздушных судов при правительстве СССР, Gosavianadzor, Госавианадзор СССР) was an agency of the government of the Soviet Union, under the Council of Ministers. The agency investigated aviation accidents and incidents.^[1] After the breakup of the Soviet Union in 1991, the former Soviet republics that joined the Commonwealth of Independent States formed the Interstate Aviation Committee (IAC or MAK), the successor to the Gosavianadzor.^[2]

External links

• "Accident and Incident Investigation In Soviet Practice." (Archive) Flight Safety Digest. Flight Safety Foundation. January 1992. p. 1. Prepared by the Gosavianadzor.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Kutskov, Alexey. Investigating Foreign Aircraft Accidents In the U.S.S.R.. Flight Safety Digest. Flight Safety Foundation. 2 February 2013. December 1990. 4. https://web.archive.org/web/20130616220407/http://flightsafety.org/fsd/fsd_dec90.pdf. 2013-06-16. live.
2. "Russian Duma calls for more state control over aviation safety." Vremya Novostey, Moscow, in the BBC Archive (BBC Monitoring International Reports). May 13, 2004. "[...]former USSR republics back in December 1991, is considered the successor to the USSR State Commission for Oversight of Aircraft Safety (Gosavianadzor)."