A United Nations agency is hoping to quickly introduce new measures to keep closer tabs on planes following last year’s disappearance of a flight in Asia and shooting down of a passenger plane in Europe.The International Civil Aviation Organization laid out a proposal Tuesday to improve the tracking of long-haul passenger flights by fall 2015. It also presented delegates at a conference in Montreal with a plan to exchange information about flying over conflict zones.The high-level meeting, only the second in the ICAO’s 70-year history, was called after a tragic year for air travel. Government and aviation industry officials from …read more
Source: The Jakarta Post
