The genesis of the legal foundations of civil aviation as a prospect for solving the problems of legal regulation of ensuring the safety of aviation passenger transportation

A prerequisite for the performance of flights by air is proper security. It can be implemented if there is a system of legal regulation that has been formed in the course of the formation of civil aviation. The study of regulations adopted since the inception of the rule-making regulation of civil aviation activities and, accordingly, the identification of the main stages of development in the field of ensuring flight safety is necessary in order to eliminate the problems of modern legislative regulation, taking into account the experience of the past. The main problems of legal regulation of ensuring the safety of air transportation are revealed, on the basis of which it is concluded that they need to be eliminated by analyzing the legal foundations of civil aviation. In addition, the content of the concept of “aviation safety”, as well as the systematization of the views of researchers available in the legal literature regarding the comparison of this term with “flight safety”, are considered. The methodological basis of the study was the following methods of cognition of objective reality: general scientific (analysis, synthesis, the method of an integrated approach), a special concrete historical method, as well as private scientific methods (formal legal and comparative legal). As a result of the study, the main regulatory and legal acts approved by public authorities as the system for ensuring the safety of air transportation is being developed. A periodization of the development of the legal regulation of flight safety was formed, on the basis of which a conclusion was drawn about the appearance of shortcomings in the legal regulation of ensuring safety in air transport in a certain period of its development.