Flight hours decline in detecting spills from ships in the Baltic Sea
The total number of surveillance flight hours in the Baltic Sea dropped again in 2014 according to the annual HELCOM report on aerial surveillance. Compared to the average total number of flight hours in 2000–2013, the decrease is 20%. There is a risk that the declined amount of time in the air of surveillance planes impairs the reliability of information on detected spills from ships in the Baltic, compiled by HELCOM