1 Safeguarding flight data and locating/recovering on-board recorders

2 Background  Some accidents shows difficulties to recover the recorders, or the data recorded on them:  AF-447, 1 st June 2009  Yemenia, 30 th June 2009  South African Airways, 28 th November 1987  French BEA established the “Flight Data Recovery Working Group” to look into new technology  to safeguard flight data  to facilitate the location and recovery of on-board recorders

3 Background  Group’s ToR:  Propose solutions to enhance the recovery of flight data after an accident  Asses the technical feasibility of each solution  Present the advantages and disadvantages of each solution  Present the degree of “maturity” as well as the cost of each solution  This Group did not cover legal aspects

4 BEA’ Recommendations  BEA issued safety recommendations settled on three areas  Increasing the transmission time and range of the ULB beacons  The sending of data on initialisation  The installation of deployable recorders  AIG2008 agreed to recommend the implementation of Annex 13, Paragraph 5.12 and associated Attachment E

5 Proposals for the Conference  Recommend ICAO to evaluate changes in flight data recording and protection and propose changes in the appropriate Annexes  It could be done by the FLIRECP panel, transformed to also address data protection and other topics raised by AIG2008

6 Permanent communications with aircraft over oceanic areas

7 Background  Loss of AF447 highlighted that non-permanent communication may adversely impact on  the timely launching of search and rescue phases  aircraft wreckage recovery  Potential of improved surveillance and route conformance monitoring  Enhance flight safety and efficiency

8 Proposals for the Conference (1) Call on ICAO to:  undertake a comprehensive review of potential short term enhancements to flight tracking and route conformance monitoring capabilities  ADS-C and CPDLC capabilities through satellite communications.  review means and procedures which mitigate HF communication reliability issues over the high seas

9 Proposals for the Conference (2) Call on ICAO to:  review the use of modern communication technologies in case of emergency  explore longer term solutions to those issues, taking account existing regional initiatives  OPTIMI  report by the Council to the 37 th Assembly