§ Mr. Chichester-Clarkasked the Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation whether he will consider the setting up of joint operations rooms from which the movements of civil and military aircraft in or near civil airline corridors can be plotted and controlled.
§ Mr. WatkinsonAircraft on airways are already plotted and controlled under joint civil and military control arrangements. Service officers work together with their civil counterparts in the three joint Air Traffic Control centres. The large number of flights in the vicinity of, but not actually on, airways naturally cannot be kept under such close control, but, as my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Air announced on 14th May, the problem of reducing the chances of accidents near airways is at present being reviewed.