Nearly every transportation mode has organizations that regulate operators through a series of licensing procedures, sanctions for inappropriate operating practices, and requirements for continuing training to retain certification to operate.
"The physical environments are similar, the operating practices and standards are virtually the same and both operations are about 50 years old," he said of the Nigerian and Gabonese ventures.
Some European nations are also challenging the operating practices of global technology companies, with success.
Major changes are needed in both the structure of the air traffic system and operating practices.
Both companies said they would make changes in operating practices demanded by the doctors.
WorldCom has maintained that it did not act outside the industry's standard operating practices and that telephone companies reroute calls all the time to cut access fees.
Even with no certainty about the source of ignition, the accident has set off a wide review of airplane design and operating practices.
The first task of a new regime would be to get production capacity, damaged by war and poor operating practices, back into gear.
And it says the petroleum industry should set up a special group to peer-review and publicly report on all safety-related operating practices.
In addition, he accused Medtronic of manipulating its accounting and operating practices to deprive him of tens of millions of dollars of royalties.
It also exposed serious failures on the part of Shell and Nigeria's national oil company NNPC, which it says failed to follow their own best operating practices.
