Gregory Polek has spent his entire career in aviation journalism with AIN, starting as a proofreader and assistant to then-managing editor Mary Mahoney in 1995 after serving an internship with&nbsp;New Jersey Monthly&nbsp;magazine and completing his B.A. degree in English/Writing at New Jersey’s William Paterson College. By 1997 Polek accepted a position as an associate editor, covering the regional airline beat for&nbsp;Aviation International News&nbsp;in place of retiring industry veteran Don Anderson. The assignment took Polek across North America and Europe to profile regional airlines varying in size and mission from the likes of floatplane operators Kenmore Air and Chalk’s Ocean Airways to regional jet operators such as SkyWest and American Eagle. Today, in his dual role as Air Transport Editor and International Airshow Editor, Polek writes, edits, and manages AIN’s commercial aviation content while overseeing each of the company’s daily international air show publications in Paris, Farnborough, Singapore, and Dubai. Most recently Polek has assumed oversight of daily coverage of the Helicopter Association International’s annual Heli-Expo convention.

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Gregory Polek

An International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) task force recommended on Tuesday that nations establish a centralized information-sharing system designed to warn airplanes of risks to civil aviation arising from war zones. Created in reaction to the July 17 downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 over eastern Ukraine, the task force said it expects preliminary trials of a European version of the system to largely inform related recommendations. All 298 passengers and crew died as a result of the presumed missile strike. &nbsp;

 


Upon concluding its third and final meeting, the task force expressed “clear satisfaction” with the progress it achieved in devising a work program packaged for assessment by a wider cross-section of ICAO’s 191 Member States during the UN agency’s high-level safety conference scheduled for February 2 to 5. It also expressed satisfaction with the work performed by its team of international experts on categorizing types of risks to civil aviation over conflict zones to provide guidance to both airlines and states in the future.

 


“We had a considerable set of challenges put to us when this task force was established, and I am pleased with the excellent results we’ve been able to determine in the short period of time available,” said task force chairman David McMillan. “Those of us in the room understood that flying is still the safest way to travel, but we also recognized the public’s unease where conflict zone risk is concerned.”

 


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