Wednesday, July 01, 2009
Yemen airline's safety questioned
Some say Yemenia are even worse than Thomas Cook.
The BBC say Yemenia treat people like cattle, they pile them in, they don't respect timetables, there are always technical problems. The flights were often overcrowded and even some passengers lacked seatbelts. It is said that the seats on the crashed flight were not even fastened down, they would move around the plane.
In the old days, big passenger planes used to have to have four engines to fly distances over water. Then it went down to two. The crash plane was believed by some to be flying on one engine some of the time, and they certainly did not return to the EU where all that could have been checked.
IMO: All this might suit carriers like Thomas Cook who want to use passengers as human ballast. Moving seats could mean that the seats as well as the passengers would be moveable to different parts of the plane during the flight, and flying on one engine could increase fuel economy. It sounds rather like the neoliberals use of PPPs in the UK NHS and trains (75 requirements still unfulfilled 10 years after Clapham accident).
The BBC say Yemenia treat people like cattle, they pile them in, they don't respect timetables, there are always technical problems. The flights were often overcrowded and even some passengers lacked seatbelts. It is said that the seats on the crashed flight were not even fastened down, they would move around the plane.
In the old days, big passenger planes used to have to have four engines to fly distances over water. Then it went down to two. The crash plane was believed by some to be flying on one engine some of the time, and they certainly did not return to the EU where all that could have been checked.
IMO: All this might suit carriers like Thomas Cook who want to use passengers as human ballast. Moving seats could mean that the seats as well as the passengers would be moveable to different parts of the plane during the flight, and flying on one engine could increase fuel economy. It sounds rather like the neoliberals use of PPPs in the UK NHS and trains (75 requirements still unfulfilled 10 years after Clapham accident).
# posted by uv : 6:14 AM
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