Tuesday, May 19, 2009

Another scare...

Is there never enough of this sort of news? Take a look here.
  • If mechanics don't speak English, the international language of aviation, they can't read the manual and they can't record their activities.
  • ...hundreds of mechanics with questionable licenses are working on aircraft in Texas.
  • The FAA declined to be interviewed for this report. This should cause a huge stink. This is worse than outsourcing. Insourcing trouble like this must be breaking some serious laws. Since this story made it to page one on Drudge, it has been seen by millions of eyeballs. We pity AA and WN and how they will get hammered by association (Dallas).

    In other news --

    • Rising oil prices
    • Elbit & GD form UAV JV
    • MiG-29s for training - this time in Israel; you paying attention Ahmadinejad?
    • More bad news from IATA

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