Yep,
Post #60 (angryblackman) sounds like somebody who got fired at CK. Lots of anger there. And there are errors in his post as well. The gitmo dc-8 accident, IIRC, had a base-turn white flashing beacon o.o.s. and the crew was wide awake throughout the approach. Tired, yes. Asleep, no. The last thing the engineer said as the PF overbanked inside way too short a final was "Oh man, we're never going to make this!"
That accident lead to revisions of supplemental duty time limits as I recall.
And the DC-8 engine separation over denver, if this was 1985/86, I was flying that night into stapleton and it was the most extreme rocky mountain turbulence anybody had ever seen. But I thought the engine did not fall off: it was just hanging by a thread. It was a UPS painted bird if I recall correctly (IIRC.) But it's unlikely that "angryman" is capable of calmly answering that.
So Guppy's right, in that you can't take accidents from decades ago and lump them all together in this decade and imply that there is something wrong with the maintenance by itself. But the age of these things is a valid reason that the PIC should have full authority on how it is operated. We used to worry about these airframes being too old and "oil canning" at 4x,000 hrs. If you had told me that they would still be flying in 2008 I would have told you that you don't know what you're talking about. The 747 is in every way as great a machine as the DC-3 was in my opinion.
So I agree with 411A that Kallita is typical of small outfits just trying to get by. They should be given tax free status, and allowed to put that money into re-engining their fleet.
That's what I think.
Best Regards,
pac