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Old 2nd Dec 2020, 20:40
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King Chile
 
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I'm given to understand that the British team, whom were formerly brought in to revive the fortunes of Air Djibouti, left that airline in good shape when they withdrew (that was back in mid 2017) albeit with apparently significant concerns regarding the 'Safety & Compliance' culture of the team whom were latterly put in charge at the airline and whom have run it since.

This accident perhaps gives credence to those concerns, wherein one does have to question how the present management at Air Djibouti actively choose to operate commercial scheduled passenger services to an airfield that has zero fire cover? (where, in this case, the airport fire truck reportedly wasn't serviceable for upwards of two months) what with that sort of thing being in contravention of ICAO Annex 14 / Aerodrome Standards - Aerodrome Design and Operations / Section 9.2 / 'Rescue and fire fighting'.... which requires that airports without a functional fire service be closed and that flights should not be operated either to / from there; wherein to do otherwise is both illegal & dangerous.

Therein Air Djibouti has knowingly & wilfully put passengers lives at risk and it's only by sheer good fortune that nothing worse happened in this accident and that people weren't either injured or worse.


Airports fire truck missing a wheel for the last +2 months.
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