EASA PROPOSES EU UNDERWATER DETECTION STANDARDS, FOLLOWING MALAYSIA AIRLINES MYSTERY
May 10th, 2014
THE EUROPEAN Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) yesterday (Tuesday) proposed new standards for flight recorders and underwater locating devices for European Union (EU)-registered aircraft. The aim is helping emergency and rescue services find and recover a plane and its flight recorders if it crashed into the ocean. EASA’s initiative has been prompted by the mystery surrounding the whereabouts of Malaysia Airlines MH370, believed to have ditched into the Indian Ocean, west of Australia.The new EASA requirements would extend the transmission time of underwater ...
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