Airbus Industrie and Boeing have created a world's first by calling a meeting with the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) to discuss how the aviation community can help meet safety challenges in the 21st century.
Representatives from the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), the European Joint Aviation Authority (JAA) and delegates from France, Germany, Spain, the United Kingdom and the United States joined the discussions last Friday about how best to coordinate the safety programmes of the FAA, JAA and ICAO.
Airbus's Wolfgang Didszuhn and Yves Benoist stressed how all individual programmes were clearly aligned on reducing air accidents worldwide. Charlie Higgins of Boeing pointed to greater information sharing among all aviation partners, industry and governments, as key in the design and implementation of future safety activities.
"Although air transport remains the safest mode of mass transportation, we must continually find new avenues of cooperation between ICAO, governments and regulators, manufacturers, operators and service providers if we are to succeed in meeting the challenges resulting from unprecedented growth of civil aviation," says ICAO council president Dr Assad Kotaite.
Source: Flight Daily News
