Together they waged war against the Confederate States, through the maintenance of a blockade along the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts and support of the land war effort through control of the rivers of the American interior. The 118,000 or so Bluejackets included large numbers of immigrants, including over 30 percent British or Irish, while c.15 percent of the sailors were African American. “Hopefully, the QZ8501 crash will galvanize the states to make technical harmonization a priority,” said Alan Khee-Jin Tan, professor of aviation law at the National University of Singapore.The story of common sailors in the United States ‘Union’ Navy (USN), the ‘Bluejackets’ (so named for their distinctive shell-jacket uniform) has been understudied in the history of the American Civil War (1861-1865). Though the cause of the crash is still unknown, aviation experts have seized on the incident to point to the region’s infrastructure suffering from congested skies and a patchwork of differing safety standards. That issue has come to the fore after the AirAsia flight QZ8501 from Surabaya to Singapore, carrying 162 people, crashed in the Java Sea on Dec 28, shortly after the pilot requested to change altitude to avoid bad weather. The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) has no regional agencies overseeing aviation safety or co-ordinating air traffic control, unlike in the more developed European market. SINGAPORE (Reuters) - The rapid growth in Southeast Asia’s airline industry is showing up the pressing need for reforms to the region’s fragmented safety framework, with a lack of streamlined standards on air navigation and staff training.
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