全球航空公司承诺不再让飞机"失联"大纲

The world’s airlines have pledged to “never let another aircraft vanish” as they laid out plans to ensure that aircraft in flight can be properly tracked to avoid a repeat of the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370.

全球航空公司承诺“不再让另一架飞机消失”，它们已制定计划，确保飞行中的飞机得到妥善追踪，以避免马航(Malaysia Airlines) MH370航班失踪的事件重演。

In a sign of how the industry seeks to learn lessons from the disaster, the International Air Transport Association on Tuesday said it would create a “task force” to examine the options available for tracking commercial aircraft. Conclusions would be published by December.

国际航空运输协会(International Air Transport Association)周二表示，将成立“特别工作组”，研究追踪商用飞机的可用选择。结论将最迟在12月公布。这一迹象表明，航空业希望从此次灾难吸取教训。

The development came as Malaysia released an official transcript of the last words spoken in the cockpit, saying there was “no indication of anything abnormal”.

与此同时，马来西亚公布了MH370驾驶舱的最后通话内容的官方记录，表示其中“不存在任何不正常迹象”。

“In a world where our every move seems to be tracked, there is disbelief both that an aircraft could simply disappear and that the flight data and cockpit voice recorders are so difficult to recover,” said Tony Tyler, Iata director-general, as the association opened its annual operations conference in Kuala Lumpur.

国际航空运输协会总干事汤彦麟(Tony Tyler)表示：“在我们的一举一动似乎都可以追踪的当今世界，人们很难想象一架飞机竟然会消失，而飞行数据和驾驶舱语音记录器这么难回收。”该协会的年度运营大会在吉隆坡开幕。

“Air France 447 [which crashed in the South Atlantic in 2009] brought similar issues to light a few years ago and some progress was made. But that must be accelerated. We cannot let another aircraft simply vanish,” he said. “And it is equally clear that governments must make better use of the passenger data that they mandate airlines to provide.”

“几年前，法航(Air France)447航班（2009年在南大西洋坠毁）揭露了一些类似的问题，我们取得了一些进展。但我们必须加快这一过程。我们不能再让另一架飞机就这么消失，”他表示，“同时，各国政府显然必须更好地利用它们要求航空公司提供的乘客数据。”

Iata represents 240 airlines comprising 84 per cent of global air traffic.

国际航空运输协会代表240家航空公司，占全球航空业务量的84%。

The search for flight MH370 has entered its fourth week, with 10 planes and nine ships searching a roughly 120,000 sq km area west of the Australian city of Perth on Tuesday.

对马航MH370航班的搜寻工作已进入第四周，周二有10架飞机和9艘舰船在澳大利亚珀斯以西大约12万平方公里的搜索区域进行搜寻。

The effort is being run by an organisation set up by the Australian government, known as the Joint Agency Coordination Centre. It is headed by retired air chief marshal Angus Houston. The JACC will continue to work with Malaysian authorities.

搜寻工作由澳大利亚政府成立的联合机构协调中心(Joint Agency Coordination Centre)负责。该中心由已退休的澳大利亚空军上将奥古斯•豪斯顿(Angus Houston)领导。该中心将继续与马来西亚政府合作。