ICAO MOVES FORWARD ON DEVELOPING REAL-TIME WAR-ZONES SAFETY DATABASE

 AN INTERNATIONAL Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) Task Force on Risks to Civil Aviation arising from Conflict Zones (TF RCZ) has made progress in developing information sharing systems on keeping civil airliners safe when they fly above conflict zones.It started work swiftly following the shooting down of Malaysian Airlines flight MH17 over the contested Dnipropetrovsk region of Ukraine – in August. It created broad-based a work programme and started two focused information-sharing projects.The first was exploring how the Notice to Airmen (NOTAM) system ...


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