Young Hong-tsu (楊宏智); image taken from www.asc.gov.tw

Taipei, June 29 (CNA) Young Hong-tsu (楊宏智), a distinguished professor of mechanical engineering at National Taiwan University, has been named to take over as chairman of the Aviation Safety Council (ASC) on July 4.

Young will fill the post left vacant by the council's previous chairman, Hwung Hwung-Hweng (黃煌煇), who has became head of the Ocean Affairs Council (OAC), which was inaugurated in April.

One of Young's first tasks as ASC chairman will be to promote the establishment of a national transportation safety council to improve Taiwan's aviation, maritime transport and rail transportation safety, he said.

A draft act is expected to upgrade the approximately 20-person ASC into a 60-person national transportation safety council to coordinate the investigation of public transport accidents, including aviation, shipping and railway mishaps.

Young previously served as a managing director of the Aviation Safety Council from 2005 until 2009.

(By Wang Shu-fen and William Yen)
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