Search
The last aroma allows to predict the time in 2For us Barroso is not the right candidatePrivate equity funds are endlessly changing financeand Intercarrier big icing on the cake the creditThey needed to challenge the normal proceduresIf one adds the window edges the potential quadHowever for his peers Yves Bénard is a genuine baronIt runs first to a question from perimeterEach floor of Ingolstadt its torture chambersTwo budding entrepreneurs within the gloveThe Airbus A310 for the Yemeni company was prohibited from flight in France.
Black series or fault in the regulation A month after the disappearance of flight AF447 crash of an Airbus A310-300 of Yemenia Airlines yesterday in the Comoros, with 153 people aboard, including 66 French, relaunching the questions about the safety of air transport. If the circumstances of these two disasters are totally different, they are nevertheless the number of French victims of air accidents since the beginning of the year to a level seldom reached, leaving a doubt on the effectiveness of the measures taken to improve security.
Starting with the European blacklist of dangerous airlines, established at the initiative of the France in 2005. If Yemenia is certainly not among the 200 companies banned flights in the Union European, and had known so far, no air disaster, the A310 disappeared had been banned from flight in France following a review in 2007 revealed "irregularities", said yesterday the Secretary of State for transport, Dominique Bussereau.
At this stage of the investigation, nothing indicated that the failure of the device is the cause of the crash. According to the Yemeni Transport Minister, the apparatus has been a "full inspection" may, "conducted at the Yemen (...)". "with Airbus experts" and "was consistent with international standards." However, it may seem anomalous that passengers who have purchased their ticket in France found themselves on an aircraft banned in France, in a change of aircraft in Sana'a, for the last stage of their journey.
And yet, the French ban was valid on French airports, nothing prohibited to Yemenia to operate this device between Sanaa and the Comoros. And nothing prevents the 194 companies on the European black list to continue to operate in other parts of the world.
Unpublished reports
Hence a nothing demagogic proposal put forward yesterday by the European Commissioner for transport, Antonio Tajani, a "global black list", which would exclude dangerous companies of international bonds. But the only institution capable of regulating air transport at the global level is the Organization of the international civil aviation (ICAO). However this emanation of the United Nations is always well kept to interfere with the sovereignty of its Member States 200. ICAO inspectors have the ability to control the companies and the Civil Aviation of the Member States. But their reports are that recommendations, which the application depends on the States themselves and whose conclusions are not made public, to not discourage the States to submit to such controls.
The Yemen and Yemenia were the subject of at least a critical report of ICAO in 2004, which emphasized the inadequacy, lack of means and training of the Yemeni airline. But then again, no public warning not has resulted and there is no guarantee that this report was followed by corrective action.
Because they could compel, the solution may be that chosen by Iata to certification, offering passengers to relay companies a certain guarantee. The France had tried to develop the principle by proposing a label to the airlines. But the initiative has not crossed the boundaries of the Hexagon, or attracted the interest of the general public, including the main criterion of choice, air transport, remains the price.
