| Federal Bureau of Aircraft Accidents Investigation Bundesstelle für Flugunfalluntersuchung |
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| Abbreviation | BFU |
| Formation | 1 September 1998 |
| Type | Federal agency |
| Legal status | Established by Law on the Investigation of Accidents and Malfunctions in Operation of Civil Aircraft[1] |
| Purpose/focus | Aviation accident and incident investigation |
| Headquarters | Braunschweig |
| Region served | Germany |
| Official languages | German |
| Director | Ulf Kramer |
| Website | http://www.bfu-web.de/ |
The German Federal Bureau of Aircraft Accidents Investigation[2] (German: Bundesstelle für Flugunfalluntersuchung, BFU) is the German federal agency responsible for air accident investigation.
The purpose of BFU is to find out the causes of air accidents and how they can be prevented. The BFU facility is located in Braunschweig, Lower Saxony.[3] The agency is subordinate to the Federal Ministry of Transport.[2]
West Germany had joined the Convention on International Civil Aviation including the standards and recommended practices on aircraft accident and incident investigation (Annex 13) in 1956. Initially subordinate to the neighbouring Luftfahrt-Bundesamt (Federal Aviation Office), the Bureau of Aviation Accidents Investigation according to a recommendation by the International Civil Aviation Organization in 1980 was put under the direct authority of the Federal Ministry of Transport. The FBU was formally established as an upper-level federal agency in 1998.
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