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Specialized agency of the United Nations, coordinates the international civil aviation regulations and policy
No official statement from Egyptian aviation authorities about Egyptian-registered aircraft tracking or shadowing the Kirks appears in the available reporting; Egyptian officials quoted discuss broade...
States have “complete and exclusive sovereignty over the airspace above their territory,” a principle cited across recent analyses and legal summaries and relied on to justify national airspace closur...
U.S. airline cockpits remain overwhelmingly white and male: multiple analyses put white pilots above roughly 80%–85% of the workforce and Black pilots at about 3.4%–3.6%; women make up under 7% of com...
No credible government agency or authenticated whistleblower has confirmed an ongoing, deliberate, large‑scale program to spray toxic chemicals into the atmosphere over the public; historical U.S. gov...
Italy’s electronic identity card (CIE) and its digital identity ecosystem (SPID / emerging IT Wallet) store a combination of core personal identifiers—names, birth details and document identifiers—and...
Closure of airspace in armed conflict sits at the intersection of two bodies of law: sovereign aviation law, which gives States primary authority to regulate and close the airspace above their territo...
Flight and maintenance logs are recorded both in operational “technical” or journey logs and in formal maintenance logbooks; U.S. rules require maintenance entries for any action on safety‑critical co...
States routinely close or restrict their sovereign airspace; Article 1 of the Chicago Convention affirms "complete and exclusive sovereignty" over the airspace above each State's territory, which most...
The Chicago Convention explicitly gives each state “complete and exclusive sovereignty” over the airspace above its territory (Article 1), which is the core legal basis for any state to restrict or cl...
States attempting drone interdiction of suspected drug-running boats in international waters face a tangle of legal limits and competing authorities: war powers and a novel U.S. doctrine for striking ...
The Global Aeronautical Distress and Safety System (GADSS) tightened requirements for Emergency Locator Transmitters (ELTs), Underwater Locator Beacons (ULBs) and flight‑recorder recoverability by man...
ICAO’s Global Aeronautical Distress and Safety System (GADSS) transformed aircraft tracking from an ad‑hoc, piecemeal practice into a layered, standards‑based regime that mandates periodic position re...
Professor Chris Johnson is a prominent name in computing and safety-critical systems whose work has informed government reviews and academic inquiry, but public references conflate several different "...
Between 2023 and 2025 a small but growing set of live pilots and proofs‑of‑concept using ICAO’s Digital Travel Credential (DTC) specifications were publicly reported, with Aruba, the Netherlands, Finl...
Egyptian civil rules treat military and security flights differently from ordinary civil traffic: Egyptian law and aviation guides note exemptions for military/security aircraft from some civilian res...
Open-source flight logs and crowd‑sourced ADS‑B feeds can and do place aircraft near private residences in near real‑time because they collect unencrypted position broadcasts from aircraft; platforms ...
Pilots may train and fly while wearing glasses or contact lenses so long as their corrected vision meets FAA standards—typically correction to 20/20 for first/second‑class and at least 20/40 for third...
U.S. regulators and international bodies maintain a patchwork of aircraft emissions rules, sectoral standards for engines and new airplanes, and extensive ambient and satellite monitoring programs to ...
Policy and operational standards for drones in the U.S. have shifted sharply since 2021: federal action in 2024–25 accelerated security-driven procurement limits on foreign-made systems and pushed rap...
The FAA enforces aircraft emissions primarily by certifying compliance with EPA-set standards (40 CFR Part 87) through its own certification and Part 34 rules for engine fuel venting and exhaust, and ...