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EU to Blacklist Yemenia Air?
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by cyn.khoo | June 30, 2009 at 11:07 am
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The European Union (EU) is investigating whether or not to add Yemenia Air to its blacklist of airlines banned from flying to Europe.
A Yemenia Air aircraft crashed into the Indian Ocean on Tuesday, June 30, two years after French aviation inspectors found a "number of faults" during an examination of the plane in 2007.
EU Transport Commissioner Antonio Tajani said that Yemenia Air met EU safety regulations in the past and has not been on the airline blacklist.
"We shall contact the Yemeni airline involved to see what happened and to verify the level of safety," Tajani told reporters. "The problem seems to be that the airliner was changed ... We have to verify what actually happened. We have to make sure Europeans traveling by air can feel safe."
According to Tajani, the EU blacklist is created by airline safety experts, who maintain checks over all airlines flying in and out of the EU. The list currently includes 194 airlines that are considered to fail international safety standards, and will be updated in coming weeks.
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at 18:48 on June 30th, 2009
Was there a discussion to black list Air France when it crashed recently? No, it was all about finding the missing people. Less 24 hours and their concern is about blacklisting the airline. What the lives of the people in Yeminia airlines are not as valuable. Or is it a manifestation Europe's double standards. I have search for headlines regarding anything to do with blacklisting Air France but was not able to find any.
at 13:47 on July 17th, 2009
i really dont care who EU is....they just think about money instead of safty. EU must give thought about the reall safty measures and try to prevent accidents bofore its to late. i mean think in 40 years yemenia airways had only one accident over the indian ocean.........you cannot judge it that fast and threating yemenia to be on the BLACK LIST. All who are involved in the investagations have no clue what had happened.and *\mr, perfect EU* is trying to put Yemenia on the \\\\blacklist byany wayall i can say to you EU SHAME ON YOU>>>>>>>>>>>>>>SHAME ON YOU.