Hundreds of aviation safety professionals gathered in Montreal the first week in February at the International Civil Aviation Organization’s (ICAO’s) High Level Safety Conference (HLSC). It’s been five years since the last HLSC, and it was a great event.
Flight Safety Foundation has official observer status with ICAO, a privilege not too many groups have been granted. This gives the Foundation a front-row seat for the fascinating deliberations among the states as the members of ICAO grapple with the issues facing aviation safety.
But we weren’t there just to listen. I had the honor to join a panel discussion on the first day of the HLSC about the protection of safety information. During this panel, the Foundation called on ICAO and all the participants at the meeting to embrace the recommendations from ICAO’s Safety Information Protection Task Force. As you have probably read on these pages before, and as the Foundation believes more strongly than ever, a top priority must …
