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Old 31st Dec 2012, 10:09
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The Dutch newspaper is in possession of a report made by DEGAS. This stands for Dutch Expert Group Aviation Safety. Content of the report was used by the newspaper as input for the article.

DEGAS Home

This is an independent advisory body in the Netherlands. Chairman is Benno Baksteen, a former KLM pilot and in recent past much seen at tv for aviation related events.
Goal of DEGAS is to increase safety in society by applying lessons learned in aviation.

DEGAS has written a report of the KLM flight which diverted to Las Vegas while KLM HQ wanted to pilot to continue to LAX even the plane could land there below minimum fuel.

DEGAS wrote another report about the pressure to reduce costs and the effect on the aviation safety. It is written in dutch and can be downloaded here.
http://www.adviescollege-degas.nl/li...s_2012-017.pdf
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