Okay. My inner skeptic is satisfied.........for the moment.......
I’m wondering if it wasn’t related to this conference.
I’ll keep digging in my aviation feeds.
Aviation Search and Rescue Forum concludes in Abu Dhabi
2010-06-22 19:31:38
WAM Abu Dhabi, Jun 22nd, 2010 (WAM) — The Search and Rescue (SAR) Forum organised by the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) and hosted by the General Civil Aviation Authority of the United Arab Emirates concluded in Abu Dhabi today.
The two-day conference was opened on Monday by the UAE Minister of Economy and Chairman of the General Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA) Sultan Bin Saeed Al Mansouri.
According to Omar Bin Ghaleb, Deputy Director General of GCAA, it was the first time such a high level gathering of global SAR experts had ever been convened by ICAO.
The Forum created opportunity to find solutions to long standing issues of insufficiency that compromise effective worldwide SAR coverage, both technical and procedural.
ICAO is the aviation executing agency of the United Nations and administers the Convention on International Civil Aviation to which the United Arab Emirates is a Contracting State.
Search and rescue (SAR) is one of the aviation support services that is mandated by ICAO.
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