Safety
Industry Agrees To Introduce Mandatory Aircraft Tracking
A task force formed by the International Air Transport Association is developing proposals for mandatory aircraft tracking to be implemented by ICAO.
ICAO is pressing for a global flight reporting system to improve prospects for finding missing aircraft, such as the Malaysian Airlines flight MH370, which triggered a wide an inconclusive search.
ICAO is pressing for a global flight reporting system to improve prospects for finding missing aircraft, such as the Malaysian Airlines flight MH370, which triggered a wide an inconclusive search.

Air transport industry groups and the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) have agreed a framework for developing a binding mandate for aircraft tracking. At a two-day meeting that concluded on May 13 at ICAO’s Montreal headquarters, participants agreed to encourage voluntary expansion of flight monitoring by airlines ahead of an initial set of proposed new requirements being submitted to the United Nation's aviation body by the end of September. The initiative came in direct response to the still-unexplained disappearance of Malaysian Airlines flight MH370 and the continued failure to find the aircraft more than two months after it disappeared.