KUALA LUMPUR: In the wake of MH370, the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) has set a September 2014 deadline for a global standard to make it mandatory for airliners to track commercial flights in real-time.
International aviation and telecommunication industries have now shifted focus to the possibility of monitoring flight data in real-time, with experts saying that the technology to stream flight and black box data already exists but institutional and capacity issues had to be addressed first.
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