Eu Banned List Warns European Carriers to Fly Safely

The civil aviation authorities of Member States of the European Community regularly puts out a list of banned airlines–airlines which are banned from flying over European airspace because the planes have failed safety inspections, and otherwise proven to be operating with less than prescribed safety standards.

Unexpected additions to this most recent list are airlines from Germany and Spain, highly developed nations in which attention to safety appears to be waning. The expected underdeveloped African nations are included, such as Yemenia Airlines, which is now famous for using approved planes over Eu airspace and for allowing certain unsafe planes to fly outside of EU airspace. One such Yemenia Airbus crashed in 2009 killing all but one of its 154 passengers.

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