Excerpt from Federal Aviation Administration's Oversight of Foreign Airline Safety: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Investigations and Oversight of the Committee on Public Works and Transportation House of Representatives One Hundred Third Congress, Second Session October 4, 1994 In 1944, representatives of 52 countries met in Chicago to create a framework for international cooperation in developing civil avia tion. The representatives signed the Convention on International Civil Aviation (known as the Chicago an inter national treaty which established minimum safety standards gov erning civil aviation and the operation of aircraft, and formed the International Civil Aviation Organization [icao]. Today, icao has 183 member countries. In accordance with the Chicago Convention, icao members are required to comply with minimum international safety standards and to recognize as valid the airworthiness certificates and pilot li censes issued by other member nations. Historically, faa assumed that such certificates and licenses constituted evidence that a coun try was providing safety oversight of its airlines, and that if a coun try certified an air carrier, the airline was in compliance with icao safety standards. However, two events in the early 19905 led faa to question the wisdom Of this policy. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.