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Dangerous Maintenance

It’s not just that they’re sending American jobs out of the country. There’s another question here: Is outsourcing maintenance endangering passengers because the lack of federal oversight?

Forty percent of maintenance is being sent to third world countries which are documented to have lower standards and security lapses. Saving money may be the intent, but is the savings as important as the performer of the maintenance being able to read the manuals and order forms of the machines he is working on. The work is termed “typically inadequate.” To see Video, Click below.

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    Where: Sapporo
    When: 4:40 p.m. Wednesday
    Who: 182 passengers aboard. Three passengers and a cabin attendant injured.
    Why: The airplane encountered turbulence en route over Ibaraki Prefecture, resulting in minor injuries. One woman was taken to the hospital.

    George’s Point of View

    All of a sudden there is more on turbulence.
    Need to stay buckled up. It’s a pain on a long flight, but, more safe.

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    Passi Probe Nabs Top of DGCA Heap

    After allegations of attaining a pilot license under “extraordinary circumstances,” Garima Passi came to public attention.

    The flight school where Garima Passi had trained observed a hard landing, and determined that Passi had a disabling fear of aircrafts. Although the American Sabeena Training Centre she attended says that Passi “lacks basic aircraft control and she does not complete the gap between knowing and applying,” five days after attending a Uttrakhand training school, Passi was cleared to fly.

    (We do not know if she attended the full course.)

    Garima Passi quit SpiceJet airlines last month.

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    FAA Approves Boeing Certification plans

    Although the Federal Aviation Administration approved Boeing Company’s certification plan for the redesigned 787 battery system, after thoroughly reviewing Boeing’s proposed modifications, the National Transportation Safety Board said Boeing didn’t inform investigators about what it planned to say in the March 15 briefing in Tokyo, which is “inconsistent with our expectations.”

    On March 15, Boeing reps provided their own analysis and conclusions regarding the NTSB investigation but they apparently signed paperwork that “must refrain from providing opinions or analysis of the accident.”

    The NTSB was not amused.

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    Updating the Brazilian Statistics on the body count/recovery

    Of the 58 Brazilians aboard the notorious Rio-Paris Air France Flight 447, 18 have been found and identified.

    Of the 153 victims, 74 reside on the ocean floor. Some of those may be the 40 lost Brazilians.

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    There is still a lot of finger-pointing going on. Whatever the cause, Air France Flight 447 stalled and crashed in bad weather, killing 153.

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    Tatarstan Airlines License Revoked

    Tatarstan Airlines operator of the Boeing 737-500 that crashed in November in Kazan only flies seven planes. (Maybe 6, now?) The one that crashed was leased from a Bulgarian company, with a history of minor accidents.

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