MAJOR TASK FORCE TO FILL SECURITY BREACHES IDENTIFIED BY UKRAINE DISASTER
July 5th, 2014
A HIGH level international task force will consider ways of preventing a recurrence of the Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 tragedy, where a plane was shot down in airspace declared safe by the State Aviation Administration of Ukraine. It said that civil airliners could fly 32,000 feet above the conflict zone in eastern Ukraine. Speaking at a meeting at the Montréal headquarters of the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO), the director general of the International Air Transport Association (IATA) Tony Tyler: “We know how wrong that guidance was.” ...
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