The article is simply saying that all fingers should be pointing away from Airbus. This is true considering the statistical track record of its airplanes. Airbus, especially after the recent two crashes, should be so grateful for such objective, non-feverish article.
Despite the great concern about the safety of the international civil aviation, there are still some airports, airplanes, and operators acting against the trend. Some more concrete regulations/ actions should be in place to ensure the safety of the innocent airline passengers.
It is true that some Russian airlines have some operational problems. However, I think that talking about Aeroflot was totally out of context in the article for the following reasons:
• The aircraft is non-Russian made.
• The aircraft is operated by Yemenia.
• Departure and arrival airports of the flight are non-Russian.
• No Russian citizens were reported among the crash victims so far.
• The updated list of banned airlines by EU does not include Aeroflot (http://bit.ly/xs3ps).
• Aeroflot has a daily flight to JFK which simply means that it is not banned by US aviation authority.
• The same source quoted in the article (Aviation safety net) is also saying that USA has the highest rate of civil casualties (http://bit.ly/QJFA2).
• Aeroflot has achieved TRUEngine status for its CFM56-5B engines which are powering its Airbus family aircraft (http://bit.ly/13smLI).
Date: 02 July 2009 commenting on http://blogs.reuters.com/ & http://trueslant.com/
Despite the great concern about the safety of the international civil aviation, there are still some airports, airplanes, and operators acting against the trend. Some more concrete regulations/ actions should be in place to ensure the safety of the innocent airline passengers.
It is true that some Russian airlines have some operational problems. However, I think that talking about Aeroflot was totally out of context in the article for the following reasons:
• The aircraft is non-Russian made.
• The aircraft is operated by Yemenia.
• Departure and arrival airports of the flight are non-Russian.
• No Russian citizens were reported among the crash victims so far.
• The updated list of banned airlines by EU does not include Aeroflot (http://bit.ly/xs3ps).
• Aeroflot has a daily flight to JFK which simply means that it is not banned by US aviation authority.
• The same source quoted in the article (Aviation safety net) is also saying that USA has the highest rate of civil casualties (http://bit.ly/QJFA2).
• Aeroflot has achieved TRUEngine status for its CFM56-5B engines which are powering its Airbus family aircraft (http://bit.ly/13smLI).
Date: 02 July 2009 commenting on http://blogs.reuters.com/ & http://trueslant.com/
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Reply from Miles O'Brien dated 02 July 2009:
I was referring to the Aeroflot A310 crash that was caused by the captain allowing his son to take the controls.
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