Malaysia pushes for real-time tracking of airliners

Writing in the Wall Street Journal on May 14, Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak called on international aviation regulators to implement real-time tracking of airliners to prevent a repeat of the mysterious disappearance of flight MH370. The International Civil Aviation Organization held a special meeting earlier this week in Montreal to discuss growing calls for real-time tracking of aircraft by satellite, cloud storage of “black box” data and other innovations. Najib said regulators should change crucial communications systems to prevent them being manually shut off. “One of the most astonishing things about this tragedy is the revelation that an airliner the size of a Boeing 777 can vanish, almost without a trace,” Najib wrote.

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