PPRuNe Forums - View Single Post - Are Flex / De Rated take offs safe?
View Single Post
Old 20th May 2008, 08:49
  #63 (permalink)  
ssg
 
Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: USA
Posts: 194
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes on 0 Posts
Corporate is the safest sector...look it up...

In the mean time...some bedtime reading for you ...

In early March, CNN obtained documents from the House committee investigation that alleged the discount airline kept dozens of aircraft in the air without mandatory inspections -- and in some cases, with defects the inspections were designed to detect.

Boutris and Peters said FAA managers knew the XXXXX planes were flying illegally and did nothing about it, according to the documents.

The airline also flew at least 47 planes beyond a mandatory inspection of the fuselage, or skin, of the planes for possible cracks, the inspectors said. When the inspections were carried out, six of the planes were found to have possibly dangerous cracks, they said.

------------------
Gosh just makes you wanna go out and fly on an airline doesn't it..I mean the total committment to safety, the stand up professionalism....wow...very impressive...
ssg is offline