Story ID: 114Jan18
ICAO Launches Global Runway Safety Action Plan
By: Gordon Gilbert
Caption: Plan will guide the integrated activities to implement runway safety improvement and risk-reduction measures.
Word Count: 191

With runway excursions and incursions remaining among aviation’s top safety risk categories, ICAO and its global runway safety partnering organizations met in Lima, Peru, late last yeaar to agree on developing a new Global Runway Safety Action Plan.

The plan will “guide the integrated activities of states, airports, airlines, operators and manufacturers to implement runway safety improvement and risk-reduction measures, with an overall objective of reducing runway safety related accident fatalities and costs,” said ICAO Secretary General Dr. Fang Liu.

“Regardless of the success achieved thus far, [runway accident and incident] numbers still reveal for us that we have more work to do to fully mitigate runway-related risks,” Liu emphasized.

The agreement to develop the ICAO-led plan follows the release of Eurocontrol’s version 3.0 of the European Action Plan for the Prevention of Runway Incursions, which contains new guidance and modifications to existing recommendations to refocus and re-energize ongoing action across the aviation industry. “It is shown that there continues to be a minimum of two runway incursions every day in the European region,” Eurocontrol said.

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