SINGAPORE — Two Malaysian aircraft have come to tragic ends this year. MH370 has disappeared without a trace. MH17 was shot down. Many despair that little can be done to prevent such tragedies. Actually, there is a small “silver bullet” to help prevent an easy recurrence of such tragedies. This “silver bullet” is called multilateralism.
Civilian air traffic has exploded in recent decades. It has gone from over 30 million passengers in 1950 traveling across international frontiers to about 3 billion passengers in 2013. Travel distances have grown such that Revenue Passenger Kilometers (RPKs) flown were over 160 times as large …read more
Source: The Huffington Post
