Safety

Continued enhancements to the record-breaking safety of flight in Europe will be crucial to ensuring the sustainability of aviation growth in the region, declared ICAO Secretary General Dr. Fang Liu in her opening remarks at the 67th…

Over the past decade, disasters have exacted a heavy toll on the safety of persons, communities, and countries alike. Over 700,000 lives have been lost, and more than 1.4 million people have been injured, with nearly 23 million displaced…

ICAO works in partnership with the international aviation community to improve safety, with an emphasis on improving safety performance through standardization, monitoring and implementation. The 2018 edition of the ICAO Safety Report,…

By Angela Gittens, Director General, ACI World and Alexandre de Juniac, Director General, IATA

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…