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Panel: Aviation safety in Israel is severely neglected, may deteriorate

By Zohar Blumenkrantz, Haaretz Correspondent

A public committee appointed by Transportation Minister Shaul Mofaz said Wednesday that aviation safety in Israel is severely neglected, warning that the situation could deteriorate further.

"Aviation safety in Israel is in dire straights, and will further deteriorate unless action is taken immediately," the committee said.

Major-General (ret.) Amos Lapidot, who headed the committee, said that "the current situation is the result of decades-long negligence. The main problems are a dysfunctional civilian airports authority; flight regulations in Israel are outdated and irrelevant."

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According to the report, "Ben-Gurion Airport is subject to a series of flaws, restrictions and limitations; the military and civilian airspaces are overcrowded and not appropriately arranged."

Lapidot warned that Israel has not fully seen the technological developments of the last decades in the field of air traffic control systems. The report also criticizes pirate radio transmissions that "severely and repetitively interfere with air traffic control system to the extent of complete anarchy."

The report recommends tackling landing and take-off issues at the airport immediately. It also calls for over-arching reforms at the Israeli Airports Authority (IAA) and for the establishment of an aviation safety monitoring organization.

Mofaz said that he adopts the recommendations and would push for their implementation in 2008. He urged the committee members to continue working as the ministry's aviation safety advisory board.

Mofaz appointed the committee in February after a severe incident at Ben-Gurion Airport, where a collision was barely averted.

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1.	Aviation, Food, Consumer Products, Industry	15:42	\|	Seth	15/08/07

2.	Boycott Israeli Airports	16:16	\|	Chris Linthwaite	15/08/07

3.	Israel no worse than the rest of the world	17:25	\|	MarkC	15/08/07

4.	To Chris	18:15	\|	Laura	15/08/07

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6.	Israel no worse? Not so sure	19:23	\|	David	15/08/07

7.	Right on the money, #4.	19:28	\|	Mea	15/08/07

8.	I hear him	19:37	\|	Mark Lincoln	15/08/07

9.	Safety in Aviation must come first	21:22	\|	Chris Linthwaite	15/08/07

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