The questions about prior maintenance/fault diagnosis are obviously a horrible thing to have to contemplate - there's a suggestion being aired at the moment that an aircraft from this fleet suffered some kind of engine problem or query whilst in the Canaries at the weekend. Not known if it was the same one. We must all be careful not to second guess these things. The engineers must already be feeling absolutely awful without implying that they were actually personally negligent so early in the investigation. It just isn't fair to even hint at it without absolute evidence.
However, I do think from lessons that might be learned from a number of accidents now, we can conclude that a good new airport is not one measured by whether it has a terminal building designed by Foster or Rogers, pleasant though that may be, but one which has 360 degree level uncluttered surfaces throughout the airport, between and alongside runways and way beyond those actives.
If money can be found to buy and build car parks and motorway links, then surely it can be found to just buy scrubland and scrape it level?