Safety

ICAO Council President Dr. Olumuyiwa Benard Aliu paid an official visit to the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia in September, conducting high-level talks with its President, Dr. Gjorge Ivanov, and hand delivering the State’s ICAO…
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ICAO and Nepal have successfully partnered on resolving a Significant Safety Concern (SSC) in the Asia-Pacific State last month, following a comprehensive multilateral assistance effort coordinated under our No Country Left Behind …
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Rapid growth and continuing challenges to future system capacity were some of the key points addressed in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia last week, as ICAO’s Council President and Secretary General participated in the 54th Asia-Pacific Directors…
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With a variety of drones and unmanned aircraft set to revolutionize how lower-level domestic airspace is used for professional or recreational drone flights, consumer deliveries, and many other uses still yet to be imagined, DRONE ENABLE,…
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Our latest annual Safety Report shows that 2016 was the safest EVER year for scheduled commercial air travel. This is a key accomplishment as the safety of operations is the cornerstone of the vitality of the air transport industry, a…
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Opening the ICAO Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems Symposium in Abuja yesterday, ICAO Council President Dr. Olumuyiwa Benard Aliu stressed the importance of a globally coherent regulatory framework for the management of unmanned air…
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In one form or another, safety management has always been at the forefront of developments in the air transport sector. The 2013 publication of Annex 19 – Safety Management provided adequate recognition on the importance of structured…
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At the AUVSI ‘Xponential 2017’ Conference in Dallas today, ICAO announced its goal of developing a common global framework for traffic systems for drones, known in technical terms as UTM systems. This initiative is part of the work…
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Complex interaction plays a critical role in ensuring safe aircraft landings. Airports, air service providers, airspace users, regulators, aircraft and system manufacturers must understand each other’s roles and needs during this flight…
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Encouraging trends are putting ICAO’s aspirational safety goal of zero fatalities in reach, ICAO’s Deputy Director of Aviation Safety Catalin Radu told delegates at the Singapore Aviation Safety Seminar (SASS 2017), but the challenge of…
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