AVIATION BLACKLIST
August 1st, 2005
BY ALAN OSBORNA PROPOSAL by the European Commission to publish a blacklist of airlines with unsatisfactory safety records could mean the withdrawal of insurance cover for companies failing to measure up according to Commission officials. The Brussels plan has been made in the context of a recent sequence of aviation crashes off Italy, Greece, Canada and Venezuela where defective aircraft or negligence by operating personnel have come under suspicion.At the very least the Commission is pressing for a greatly stepped up exchange of information between the 25 EU ...
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