An article in the New York Times (July 20, 2013) describes inconsistencies between the British aerospace authority’s proposal to request that beacon batteries be disabled vs the US FAA’s plan to inspect these batteries vs the Japanese authorities plans to waive (temporarily) the requirement for airplanes to have beacon transmitters. All this is in response to the fire on an Ethiopian Airlines 787 Dreamliner caused, apparently, by a beacon transmitter’s battery. Given these different directives, how should airplanes that fly international routes operate their equipment to comply ? What is the jurisdiction of these different authorities when airplanes takeoff from one authority’s country and land in another ? Should the IATA demand that the different aerospace authorities coordinate their decisions to provide consistent proposals or should that be the role of the airplane manufacturer to enable such coordination ?