CORRECTED-UPDATE 2-Airlines back creation of global drone registry -IATA
April 19, 2018 at 21:51 PM EDT
MONTREAL/SINGAPORE, April 17 (Reuters) - The world's airlines are backing the development of a United Nations-led global registry for drones, as a rise in near collisions by unmanned aircraft and commercial jets fuels safety concerns, an executive of their trade group said on Tuesday.