MONTREAL: The UN civil aviation agency will hold a broad international meeting next week to discuss airline safety in the industry’s most coordinated response to the downing of a Malaysian airliner, two sources familiar with the matter said yesterday.
The meeting of ICAO and top officials from the airline industry and air traffic controllers, to be held in Montreal, comes amid growing calls for action to prevent a repeat of last week’s incident, which killed 298 people.
But both sources said it was not immediately clear what action would result from the meeting, given the agency’s limited operational role.
The Montreal meeting will group top officials from the International Civil Aviation Organization as well as International Air Transport Association and other agencies, the two sources said.
Malaysian Airlines flight MH17 was shot down last week over a part of eastern Ukraine controlled by Russian-speaking separatists. Industry figures have since urged ICAO to take on a bigger role and issue risk advisories.
REUTERS
