So when is Kalitta going to start passenger operations?
I am very surprised at the philosophical tone of this thread. Imagine the fuss if 800 people had been written off in these two crashes? As it is two innocents were killed in their sleep, when one of these flying scrapyards crashed.
Just look at the build dates of most of his fleet? Unbelievable that "bottom feeders" like Kalitta, Evergreen, MK and others are so poorly regulated. Do you remember the Evergreen 747 which lost power over London and was directed over huge population centres to Heathrow? Scandalous irresponsible judgements by ATC and the pilots of that crippled jet.
Clearly aircraft that are over 30 years old cannot put up with the stresses of constant maximum performance operations. Hopefully the current fuel prices will see them squeezed out of business for everyone's sake.