BRUSSELS DETAILS AIRCRAFT TRACKING REFORM PLANS
June 8th, 2014
THE EUROPEAN Commission has released details of how it plans to boost aviation tracking following the disappearance of Malaysian Airlines flight MH370. The Commission released a detailed note at a meeting of EU transport ministers in Luxembourg in Thursday (June 5). It suggested that amendments of EU aviation safety regulations would be made this year and next (2014/2015) insisting that location signals be released regularly by “large public transport aircraft”. They would have to “automatically transmit trajectory information sufficiently, regularly and ...
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