Aiming to Eliminate Fatalities
The International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) has been asked by its member nations to take on “the pursuit of a new global target of zero aviation fatalities by 2030,” ICAO Secretary General Fang Liu says.
Liu told the closing session of the ICAO 40th Assembly in early October that the zero-fatality goal could be advanced through compliance with the new Global Aviation Safety Oversight System (GASOS), adopted this year to “help augment safety cooperation and assist many states in terms of their aviation safety oversight, management and accident investigation capabilities.”
ICAO said that several regional organizations had submitted positions to the Assembly that emphasized the benefits of GASOS plans for improving aviation safety.
The Assembly also expressed support for “the scope and value inherent in ICAO’s capacity-building prioritization, both through its now 5-year-old No Country Left Behind initiative …
