Safety

In the Convention on International Civil Aviation (Doc 7300) (Chicago Convention), signed in Chicago on 7 December 1944, aircraft intended to be flown without a pilot on board were referred to as a “pilotless aircraft”. Today these…

With air traffic expected to more than double to over 5,000 flight movements daily in the next decade, the Emirates Flight Information Region (FIR) became the world’s first airspace structure to be completely based on Performance-Based…

With runway safety and in particular, runway excursions and incursions, remaining among civil aviation’s top safety risk categories, ICAO and its Runway Safety Programme Partners focussed  when they launched a new Global Runway Safety…

During an official ceremony held at the Office of the President and Head of State of Equatorial Guinea earlier this month, the President of the Council of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), Dr. Olumuyiwa Bernard Aliu…

ICAO Council President Dr. Olumuyiwa Benard Aliu has bestowed a Council President Certificate on the government of Nepal, drawing attention to the State’s significant safety oversight progress during 2017. At a…

ICAO continued its worldwide series of Regional Safety Management Symposiums and Workshops in Kigali, Rwanda, promoting the use of risk-based aviation safety approaches by ICAO Member States in the UN agency’s African Regions. “We have…

Drone deliveries, drone inspections and even autonomous flying taxis are near term realities, and to make these services safe and efficient ICAO has begun the consultative work needed to establish low-altitude traffic management guidance…

Following a bilateral meeting with the Prime Minister of Vanuatu, Mr. Charlot Salwai, ICAO Secretary General Dr. Fang Liu reiterated the UN aviation agency’s full support for Vanuatu and other Pacific Island States as they continue to work…