EU to blacklist Yemenia Airways
I understood, before this accident happened, the EU was considering to put Yemenia Airways on its blacklist of airlines subject to an operating ban for safety reasons.
Does anybody know on which basis/criteria (which safety issues identified) the EU was going to blacklist Yemenia Airways? SAFA/ramp inspections can identify some problems but should in my opinion never be the sole basis to ground an airline (unless drastic safety issues have been identified which would justify immediate grounding).
I seems likely that the EU will now blacklist Yemenia Airways regardless of the further accident investigation. Although nobody would question the need to ground unsafe airlines, it should at the same time be avoided that politics drives safety issues and that decisions are taken on a subjective basis.