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Runway safety-related accidents and incidents are aviation’s number one safety-related risk category, with 59 reported accidents in 2016, of which more than half were due to runway excursions, according to  ICAO iSTARS data. A runway…
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ICAO Secretary General Dr. Fang Liu brought important civil aviation security, innovation, and sustainability perspectives to the recent 2019 World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, where she contributed to a wide range of high-level…
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Traditionally, safety and security have been considered two distinct domains. Risk assessments based on identified hazards and threats were conducted in isolation and often not shared between the relevant practitioners. Recent events have…
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Runway safety is a long-standing safety issue and has been aviation’s number one safety challenge for the past 20 years. About half of all aviation accidents reported to ICAO have been linked to runway safety. In September 2010, the 37th…
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Based on ICAO forecasts, by the year 2036, no less than 620,000 pilots will be needed to fly the world’s 100-seat-and-larger aircraft. What is even more important than this figure is the fact that 80 percent of these future aviators will be…
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ICAO Secretary General, Dr. Fang Liu, and EUROCONTROL Director General, Mr. Eamonn Brennan, have formalized a new air navigation training cooperation agreement. Signed under the ICAO TRAINAIR PLUS Corporate Partnership umbrella, the new…
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In his keynote address to the Global Aviation Investment Summit in Dubai yesterday, the President of the ICAO Council, Dr. Olumuyiwa Benard Aliu, reminded the many dignitaries and participants in attendance that “aviation is essential to…
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Traditionally, halogenated hydrocarbons (halons) have been the only fire-extinguishing agents used in civil transport aircraft as fire extinguishers because they are effective on different kinds of fires and they are very lightweight.…
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In line with the ICAO “No Country Left Behind” (NCLB) initiative, the ICAO APAC Regional Office has reached out to the PIS by launching various supporting programmes: Aviation Security related workshops and seminars AVSEC…
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The Global Aviation Security Plan (GASeP) was approved by the ICAO Council in November 2017 after being transmitted to States and international organizations for comments. Subsequently, the APAC Aviation Security Regional Roadmap was…
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