Ray - I have to say I disagree with your assessment of Airwaves posts. He is deeply concerned, as are we all, at the accident rate. He has correctly identified that for the past few years it seems to happen to the UK sector more than the Norwegians. This is a fact.
The statistics imply that there may be some differences in culture, procedure and operating requirements that are responsible for this partisan disposition. This is also a valid assumption and should therefore be explored. As SAS says, we must drop our shields and look at all aspects of the situation.
To illustrate this point and pick up on your own observations, both the Norwegian and the Scatsta operations do not routinely undertake extreme long range flights such as ABZ-EGPB-ESB-EGPB-ABZ which one could infer place considerable strain of the operational infrastructure of those Companies that do.
DB
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