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10 NEWS, NOTES & EVENTS
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Upcoming Meetings

Air Traffic Services Committee Meeting 22-24 May 2018 Ottawa, Canada

Aircraft Design & Operation Committee Meeting 19-21 June 2018 Toulouse, France

Africa/Middle East Regional Meeting 25-27 September 2018 Mombasa, Kenya

Security Committee Meeting 26-28 September 2018 Kiev, Ukraine

Dangrous Goods Committee Meeting 2-4 October 2018 Lille, France

In Fond Remembrance of past
IFALPA Representative to ICAO
Captain Ed Smart

It is with sadness that we announce that Ed Smart passed away on 2 February 2018. IFALPA extends sincere
condolences to his family. Ed was involved with aviation throughout his entire career. He enlisted in the US Air Force in
1953 and was a distinguished graduate of USAF pilot training. He was also an honors graduate of Bellevue University
and a graduate of the Industrial College of the Armed Forces. During his twenty-four-year USAF career he was awarded
two Meritorious Service Medals and received the Air Medal eight times. He also held the Joint Services and Air Force
Commendation Medal and numerous other military awards.

Following retirement from the Air Force in 1977, he was employed by IFALPA as the pilot representative at the
International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) in Montreal. He sat on the Air Navigation Commission (ANC) as one
of only two permanent observers, the other one being IATA. He was deeply involved in the investigation, conflict
resolution and remedial action phases of several civil air transport-related international events such as aircraft hijackings,
the shootdowns of KAL007 and the Iranian Airbus as well as the terrorist attacks of 9/11.

It was Ed that ensured that pilots were not only represented at ICAO but their expertise recognised for future
development of the provisions that are followed today. His work in ICAO continues to be deeply respected and it laid the
foundation for IFALPA to continue to participate on the world aviation stage. Upon his retirement from IFALPA in
December 2002, his achievements on behalf of civil aviation were recognized when he was awarded the prestigious
Collins Safety Award and the IFALPA Presidential Citation at a ceremony in Auckland, NZ. He will be deeply missed.

ISSUE 2 | 2018 InterPilot | The Safety and Technical Journal of IFALPA