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Originally Posted by Gerard M
The news channels are reporting that the black box has now been located. What i find appalling is that this particular aircraft was allowed by the operator to be flown when other countries throughout Europe have banned it from their airports due to the level of maintainence or lack there of that it has received. I would have thought there should be some sort of universal standard that aircraft have to be maintained at?
http://www.smh.com.au/world/yemeni-a...0701-d3zr.html |
actually the aircraft was not banned from Europe , in fact it flew to LHR a couple of times recently . the aircraft was inspected two years ago in France and at the time there were some problems , the aircraft had not been back to France since but that does not mean that the problems were not fixed , nor does it mean that the aircraft was banned from flying throughout Europe .
Unfortunately the news media prefer quick and sensational stories ( often reprinting verbatim the same unchecked stories that have appeared in other publications ) rather than taking the time to check facts ( how often have we seen that in the last month with regard to AF447 ! ) .