The International Civil Aviation Organisation will collect all data on flight risks over conflict zones and disseminate the information to airlines.
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At a meeting in Montreal of the aviation organisation’s 191 member states and aviation leaders on Tuesday, experts proposed creating a system to store all risk information.
Though the repository would contain much of the data that is currently available to carriers, this is often fragmented. The proposed system would include information from an array of sources, such as from nations’ intelligence services.
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However Russia clashed with Europe and the US, with a a senior Russian official telling the gathering that a centralised information-sharing system posed legal risks that could only be addressed by a full meeting of all 191 member states in 2016.
Russia said monthly notices to pilots, known as Notices to Airmen or NOTAM, were sufficient to warn carriers of risks.
“I think it would reflect on us very badly .... if we did not see these ideas through to delivery,” Patricia Hayes, Britain’s top aviation official, told an ICAO safety conference.
Speaking for the European Union, the Netherlands, which lost 196 citizens on MH17, said there was no need to delay setting up an information-sharing prototype.
ICAO’s chairman said most members supported the scheme, but a final decision is not expected until later this year.
Earlier on Tuesday, aviation leaders rallied behind 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.
Britain, China and the United States backed ICAO proposals for further tracking guidelines that would apply from November 2016, an accelerated timetable in the often laborious process of aviation regulation.
Aircraft would have to send their position at least every 15 minutes, or more often in case of emergency, but it would be up to each state to decide how and when to implement this.
Malaysia said it was “unacceptable” that an aircraft or its recorders could be lost, decades after satellites were invented.
Apparemment, pour les deux propositions, les décisions seront prises lors de l’assemblée générale de l’#OACI.
