Your fact-checks will appear here
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...
A substantial majority of states now issue some form of biometric identity—most passports and many embed fingerprints, face templates or chips—but a meaningful minority of countries either do not issu...
The formal aircraft-certification relationship between Civil Aviation (TCCA) and Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is governed by a and detailed Implementation Procedures (TIP) that create technic...
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...
Across the eight countries named, publicly available comparative reporting shows clear variation: , and do not issue national identity cards (which reduces—but does not eliminate—routine biometric enr...
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...
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...
All three countries issue and are swept into ’s expanding biometric border architecture, but they differ sharply on domestic national ID cards and publicly documented e‑service biometric schemes: issu...
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...
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 ...
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 ...
has published technical specifications and guidance that define the (DTC) as a standards-based digital equivalent to passport data, split into a Virtual Component (DTC‑VC) and a Physical Component (DT...
is primarily local: the airport “sponsor” (a city, county, airport authority or state) decides to rename an airport and then notifies federal agencies for administrative recognition, while the process...
A substantial body of peer‑reviewed research describes how , when they persist, and how long they can influence climate: foundational thermodynamic theory and the Schmidt–Appleman Criterion explain fo...