MOSCOW. May 23 (Interfax-AVN) - The CIS military aviation needs to exchange information on air incidents, heads of flight safety agencies said at a meeting in Yerevan on Thursday.
"Having analyzed the state of flight safety for the last year, the meeting attendees acknowledged the continued presence of the common dangerous factors in the aviation systems of the Commonwealth states," CIS Council of Defense Ministers Secretariat's spokesman 1st rank Captain Mikhail Sevastyanov told Interfax-AVN on Friday.
Experts believe that the lack of a joint information network that would enable flight safety agencies to promptly exchange information about air incidents remains a common characteristic problem for the CIS military aviation, the press secretary said.
In particular, the meeting attendees stressed that the majority of air incidents could have been prevented before and even after the beginning of a dangerous situation, he said. However, no necessary preventive measures have been planned or timely conducted.
"At the same time, flight safety chiefs have recognized that the number of air accidents in 2010 fell by 15% on 2009, with a number of killed pilots falling by 20%," Sevastyanov said.
The meeting was attended by representatives from the defense ministries of Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Ukraine, as well as the CIS Council of Defense Ministers Secretariat, the Inter-State Aviation Committee, the Kazakhstan State Aviation, research and military-medical institutions from Kazakhstan and Russia, and the Russian aviation industry.