Global aviation leaders on Tuesday debated setting a tight deadline to improve the tracking of passenger planes in a push to prevent a recurrence of the still unsolved disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370.
Officials at the United Nations safety conference also sought to tackle risks from conflict zones after another Malaysia Airlines flight shot down over Ukraine, helping push aviation to the top of the international agenda after a tragic centenary year for commercial flight.
The International Civil Aviation Organization, the UN’s aviation arm, urged airlines at the rare Montreal gathering not to wait to install tracking systems that are already …read more
Source: Voice of America
