The International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) is preparing recommendations on the risks to civil aviation arising from conflict zones, taking into consideration the Malaysia Boeing-777-200 crash in Donetsk region on July 27, 2014.
“On July 29, ICAO convened a special Task Force on Risks to Civil Aviation arising from Conflict Zones (TF RCZ), which has met twice to-date. The TF RCZ will meet again in December for a next round of talks and will also convene another high-level safety conference with all its 191 member states in February 2015,” UN Under-Secretary General for Political Affairs Jeffrey Feltman said at the recent UN Security Council sitting.
On July 17, a Boeing 777 carrying 298 people was en route from Amsterdam to the Malaysian capital, Kuala Lumpur, when it went down in eastern Ukraine, near the Russian border. In the days that followed, the Security Council adopted resolution 2166 (2014) calling for a full, thorough and independent investigation into the incident.
According to a report released on Sept. 9 by the Dutch Safety Board, which submitted its preliminary findings on the MH-17 accident investigation to the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), the MH17 broke apart over Ukraine due to penetration by a large number of “high energy objects from outside the aircraft.”
