Picture this: You get on a flight from the U.S. to China and once you arrive in Beijing your pilot is not allowed to land because your plane’s specifications do not comply with the Chinese airport’s safety standards. Now imagine this scenario repeating itself when your pilot attempts to land in any EU country, or in Japan, or India because each country has a different set of aviation safety regulations and best practices. Then multiply the problem by 100,000 which is the number of international flights that occur daily and what you have is global pandemonium and an eventual disaster. …read more
Source: The Huffington Post
