EUROPEAN AVIATION CRISIS MANAGEMENT SYSTEM STILL WORK IN PROGRESS
March 1st, 2013
ALMOST three years after the eruption of the Icelandic volcano Eyjafjallajökull which closed the European air space and left millions of passengers stranded in airports across the continent, a network of European institutions charged with handling such and other similar crises is still finding its feet.The rules and principles to be followed by participants within the European Aviation Crisis Coordination Cell (EACCC), including its Eurocontrol, were agreed upon only last December (2012). The EACCC was created by the European Commission through an EU ...
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