Global Flight Tracking
Spurred by the disappearance of a Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777, government and aviation industry experts are scheduled to meet this month to discuss how to implement worldwide flight tracking.
The planned meeting, to be convened by the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), will examine “specific aircraft- and satellite-based capabilities” that would permit flight tracking on a global basis (ASW, 8/09, p. 24).
Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 disappeared March 8 during a flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing with 239 people aboard. At press time, searchers were trying to locate the source of acoustic signals that matched those emitted by flight recorders, coming from deep in the Indian Ocean.
ICAO said that its Flight Recorder Panel is reviewing suggested methods of speeding up the location of accident sites, “including deployable flight recorders and the triggered transmission of flight data.”
Olumuyiwa Bernard Aliu, Council pr…
