The annual Aerospace Safety Council meeting of the Southern Air Command was held at the Air Force Station, Sulur, near here today.

The meeting is a forum for exchange of information, ideas and progress in various fields concerning aircraft operations, accident investigation, maintenance policies and procurement of new equipment for safe operations.

Deliberations were carried out on safe maritime operations, dynamic management of air space between civil and military traffic, psychological factors affecting flight safety and assuming ownership to alleviate human errors in servicing. Air Marshal P N Pradhan, Southern Air Command, delivered the keynote address.

Air Marshal S Neelakantan, Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Southern Air Command, chaired the meeting, and Air Marshal Anil Khosla, Director General (Inspections and Safety) and a host of senior officers and dignitaries from the three defence services and agencies associated with aviation participated in the event.