Doesn't sound like anything out of the ordinary. Civil Aviation Department inspectors from whatever country have a duty to regularly check up on the airlines. The timescale indicated in the report don't appear to be anything out of the ordinary, particularly for a small airline in a small country.
It appears to be more of a report of a politician grandstanding and looking for soundbites. The facts about the operational inspections do not appear to be unusual in frequency or results. Often, after an operational inspection there will be some things highlighted that will need to be reviewed at the next inspection but these are not usually things that affect safety.
At this stage, they may as well await the results of the investigation which will have taken into account all the previous history from previous inspections. It may eventually surface that there was a particular recurring problem that was reviewed during the operations inspection but it is likely that on its own it didn't pose a particular safety issue. Unfortunately, opening statements such as
COMMUNICATION Minister Haris Thrasou confirmed the fatal Helios Airways Boeing 737-300 which crashed in August last year had undergone continuous inspections from the first day of its registration.
are ambiguous enough to imply that the fact that 'continuous' inspections were carried out somehow implies there was a problem when in fact it is perfectly normal that aircraft are inspected on a regular basis as part of normal operations. An aircraft is inspected in one way or another after and before every flight. Does that imply that there is a problem?
Again, without specifying exactly what type of inspections or by whom they were carried out the statement is nothing more than waffle and hyperbole by the Minister. Fairly typical of politicians wouldn't you say?
