Mexico’s Defense Secretariat will now more closely monitor what happens in the country’s airspace, writes La Jornada on May 4.
Following the adoption by the Mexican Congress of changes to air safety, the country’s authorities published a decree stating that these changes are intended to “ensure that air operations in national territory are not carried out for illegal purposes or that do not harm national security.”
It is reported that the Mexican Armed Forces will be able to participate, together with the Secretariat of Infrastructure, Communications and Transportation (SITC), in search and rescue operations from the air. Likewise, the Ministry of Defense of the country may jointly coordinate, in coordination with the same secretariat, areas for observation and protection of airspace, in relation to which the National Center for Observation and Protection of Airspace is created as an organization. subordinate to the army, which will have the right to request documents confirming the flight certificates and licenses established in the state of registration; inspection of workshops, training and education centers, aircraft factories and component factories, and issuance of air traffic measures and regulations.
The decree details that the airport authorities are obliged to inform the military of the landings of private foreign aircraft.
Source: Rossa Primavera
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