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By Allison Lampert MONTREAL (Reuters) - Business jets, which mostly carry the rich and powerful, should not be subject to a United Nations proposal to require plane makers to install costly equipment that would better track aircraft, an industry group said on Tuesday. The U.N.'s International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) has proposed outfitting commercial jets with ejectable flight recorders and wants them to report their positions more frequently. The International Business Aviation Council, which represents business jet makers, said the plan should not apply to jets with 19 or fewer passenger seats. "When they spend their safety dollars, they really want value for money,” Peter Ingleton, director of the group's ICAO liaison office, told Reuters on the sidelines of a global safety meeting.
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