Aviation Safety

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Aviation Safety
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Introduction
The ICAO refers to the International Civil Organization that is a special agency of United
Nations (UN). It is associated with the setting a standard to regulate the aviation sector in the
world. The main role of ICAO is to classify the techniques and the principles of the international
airway navigation. In addition to this they are also involved in the planning of the security and
safety of international air transportation. In addition to this, they are also responsible for the
development and implementation of those policies related to security and safety of the industry.
For example it can be said that, ICAO is responsible for the developing the protocols for the
investigation of any air accident (History of ICAO, 2018). In this essay the history of the ICAO
from its beginning, its effect on the civilian aviation and commercial aviation is discussed. In the
later part of this essay, the possible future of the organization is discussed.
History of the agency from inception to present
ICAO is the specialized agency of United Nation. The initial organization that was
engaged in the same was International Commission for Air Navigation (ICAN) and in 1903, the
first convention of this organization was held in berlin Germany. After that, the second
convention of the organization was held 1906 in which almost 27 countries was present. After
that in 1912, third convention of the organization was held in London in which, for the first time
radio call signs was used by the aircraft. In the year of 1944, 52 countries attended the
conference on aviation in Chicago named Chicago Convention. In this convention Provisional
international Civil Aviation Organization (PICAO) was founded and it remained functional up to
the year of 1945. After that, 26 more countries signed the convention in 1947 and PICAO was
disestablished on 4th April, 1947. At that time in October, 1947 ultimately International Civil

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Aviation Organization (ICAO) was found and it had become the agency of the UN that is linked
to the UNESCO. Currently, ICAO has it has headquarter in Montreal in Canada. Approximately,
192 countries are the current member of the ICAO (History of ICAO, 2018).
Effects on civilian aviation
ICAO controls the aviation industry worldwide and it is responsible for setting manuals
and recommendation of the safety of the aviation industry in a worldwide manner. One of the
most important part of the ICAO is the aviation security. For this, they develop a global aviation
safety plan and also a Global Air navigation plan. The development of the standards enhances
the security and safety of the civilian aviation in the whole world. The recommended policies
and practices by the ICAO contains 16 annexes and 4 PANS and those are executed by following
more than 50 manuals (ICAO, 2018). Nowadays it is very important to maintain the safety of the
civilian. The trend of threat to civilian aviation was arrived in front of the world in late 1960s
and from that time ICAO took the role of leadership in managing the safety and security of the
aviation sector for civilian. In order to address the current threat of civilian aviation, ICAO
completely dependent on the personnel of the Aviation Security Panel. ICAO also engage
themselves in various activities of the facts that are related to the security of the civilian aviation.
In addition to this, they also provide supports to the local agencies in giving support to the fact of
safety and security of the civilians. ICAO also address the travel document security by using the
Machine Readable Travel Document (MRTD) and for this, ICAO develops a standard for
Machine Readable Passports (MRP). This standard should be followed by the whole world as a
standard manual and almost more than 180 countries installed the system (ICAO, 2018). It will
ultimately result in enhancing the security of the civilian passengers. ICAO also concerns about
the facilitation of the internationally operated air transportation, successful clearance of the