In the country’s worse plane crash since 1989, all 68 people aboard a Cuban airliner were killed Thursday when the aircraft crashed in the island’s central mountains, according to AOL News. http://www.aolnews.com/world/article/no-survivors-in-cuba-plane-crash/19704213?icid=maing%7Cmain5%7C1%7Clink2%7C23663 The AeroCaribbean Flight 883 was flying from Santiago de Cuba…
Some Say There Are Limits To How Much More Air Safety Can Be Improved
It’s been a bad year so far for airline crashes, and it may be hard to keep that number down in the future, according to The Wall Street Journal Thursday. In a story headlined “The Difficulty in Improving Air Safety…
Europe official: Air safety whistle-blowers hushed
Date: 3/17/2009 By MENELAOS HADJICOSTISAssociated Press Writer NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Civil aviation authorities are only told about 20 percent of dangerous flight incidents because pilots and air traffic controllers are afraid of losing their jobs or being prosecuted, a…