CONTINUING THE DRIVE FOR IMPROVEMENT

摘要

Several studies or projects aimed at reducing threats to airline safety are likely to come to fruition in 2015. In one of these, reacting to the French investigator's recommendations in the report on the loss of Air France flight 447 over the South Atlantic in 2009, Airbus says it is preparing to fit deployable flight data recorders with embedded emergency locator transmitters in A350s and A380s. The European airframer says there is more work to do yet, and at the same time there is debate in the industry about how practical this is. No aviation authorities - at present - are planning to mandate deployable FDRs (see Feature P32). ICAO's task force on risks to civil aircraft from conflict zones, set up after the shooting down of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17, will almost certainly produce its conclusions this year- perhaps as early as February, at the organisation's High Level Safety Conference. So far the task force has been exploring how the existing Notice to Airmen (NOTAM) system could be better used to share urgent and critical conflict zone risk information.