The International Civil Aviation Organisation wants to stop the automatic prosecution of pilots, air traffic control officers and other frontline staff following accidents or incidents. At present, automatic prosecution is standard practice in many states.

The organisation has prepared a working paper for its Accident Investigation and Prevention Group (AIG) meeting in Montreal on 13-18 October.

If the committee recommends the adoption of the paper’s proposals for promoting a global “just culture” relating to incident reporting and accident investigation, it will almost certainly lead to radical new additions to Chapter 13 of the ICAO treaty, which defines standards and recommended practices for accident investigation.

A “just culture” is a sophisticated concept for which an internationally accepted definition does not yet exist, so ICAO sees its first task as d

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