France issues airlines blacklist
Monday, August 29, 2005
PARIS, France (AP) -- A blacklist of six air carriers forbidden to land on French soil for safety reasons comprises companies from Thailand, the U.S. Virgin Islands, North Korea, Mozambique and Liberia.
The French civil aviation authority, known by its initials DGAC, published the list late Sunday on its Internet site.
The airlines barred are: Air Koryo of North Korea; Air St. Thomas of the U.S. Virgin Islands; International Air Services of Liberia; Thailand's Phuket Airlines; and Linhas Aereas de Mocambique and Transairways, both from Mozambique.
Though all the airlines had been banned in recent years, France had never before made a blacklist public.
The measure was announced after a series of five aviation accidents in the past few months, including one involving a Colombian-registered charter that crashed in Venezuela, killing 152 French citizens from the Caribbean island of Martinique.
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