Used to Work at Fujairah, UAE where all these aircraft types such as AN12's, IL76's etc working in that part of the world come for maintenance.
It should be looked into why 80% of these companies (and owners) use non authorised organisations, not to mention the fact that the local authorities take no action at all in this regard.
Difficult to blame the crews for accepting these aircraft in this condition as they are not privy to the whole maintenance manuals and schedules not to mention that the owners offer huge amounts of cash for such flights (in the region of $30K per month for Pilots & 80 % of that for the rest of the crews) so if they are desperate like most people on the world today then they will take their chances for a month or two.
The main reason for thos post, although I am dead against journalists using this forum, I hope someone picks up on this and actually starts writing and asking serious questions of the aviation authorities in the middle east, Ukraine, Russia and the african continent. Bear in mind alot of these aircraft are contratcted by the United Nations also. Let's hope these are not going to be any more lives lost unnecessarily!!!!!
