Safety
ICAO Punts on Airspace Risk Assessment
The agency’s limitations in this role have been “revealed” since launching its conflict zone information repository after the 2014 downing of flight MH17.

“Different political perspectives” among member states have rendered ICAO “unable to provide a common global assessment of risk” for aviation operations, Steve Creamer, the director of ICAO's Air Navigation Bureau, told attendees at the recent NBAA International Operators Conference (IOC) in Atlanta.