EU AVIATION SAFETY
February 1st, 2005
BY KEITH NUTHALLTHE EUROPEAN Commission has moved to plug a gap in aviation safety rules that could have helped allow last year's Flash Airlines disaster at Sharm-el-Sheikh, Egypt, which killed 148 people, mostly European tourists.It has proposed a regulation telling European Union (EU) member states to publish a list of air carriers they have banned from their airspace over safety concerns, or whose movements are restricted for the same reason. The move follows revelations that some passengers on the doomed flight did not know Flash Airlines had been temporarily ...
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