•Stakeholders harp on quality assurance, training to tackle human errors Worried by the dip in aviation safety records globally, experts have pushed for concerted efforts to deepen safer sky across the local operations. The stakeholders, who recently revisited causes of incidents and accidents in the aviation industry, said renewed efforts were imperative given the place of human factors in air mishaps. Specifically, they sought in-organisation quality assurance and good communication mechanisms, regulatory safety oversights, personnel routine training programmes and better collaboration between operators, service providers and regulatory agencies. x Indeed, aviation prides itself as the most regulated industry in the world. But it has not been able to say the same about safety lately.