I have just found out about the Venezuelan crash and I thought that except the excellent recent AF escape, the remaining incidents seem to be all maintenance/pilot related: nothing to do with terrorism or weather etc.
We could even speculate that if the AF incident was caused by a pilot error ( I said IF!), the excellent training of the Cabin crew made the escape easy and successful.
Obviously we have to wait for the final result of the official enquiries but we already have some facts:
the ATR72 crash in Sicily, even if this aspect is still unclear, it should be either a pilot or maintenance error, the Helios flight seems to be either a maintenance or pilot issue as well, and the last MD82 possibly pilot error or maintenance problem as well.
Basically I wonder, as a non-expert here, is this a coincidence or the low cost/charter models and safety do not go very well together especially in the medium-long term?
Is it possible to have very low cost airlines with tickets sold at 1 GBP, and to guarantee at the same time an efficient on-going training for pilots and engineers plus a state of the art maintenance organisation.
One question for all the experts here: is it safety first also for the low cost/charter carriers?
Thanks.
