"(NOTAMs) are just a bunch of garbage that nobody pays any attention to," said NTSB Chairman Robert Sumwalt during the 2018 hearing on the infamous Air Canada incident, in which pilots missed a critical piece of information. Unnoticed on page eight of a 27-page briefing package was the fact that one of the destination airport’s two runways was closed.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://www.avweb.com/aviation-news/icao-updates-effort-to-clean-up-notam-garbage