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Union safety warnings unheeded at Turkish Airlines
6 March 2009
The ITF has highlighted how a civil aviation’s warnings concerning maintenance checks were ignored by managers of Turkish Airlines. Last week a Turkish Airlines aircraft crashed in the Netherlands killing nine people.
In a message to Atilay Aycin, President of the ITF-affiliated union Hava-Is, which represents workers on board the aircraft that crashed at Schiphol airport on 25 February, ITF Civil Aviation Section Secretary Gabriel Mocho expressed his condolences to the families and colleagues of those who died. In the letter he outlined how, just one week before the accident, the union had alleged that Turkish Airlines was “inviting disaster” by failing to take aircraft maintenance seriously, “ignoring the most basic function of flight safety, which is plane maintenance services.”
Earlier this week, it was reported that the aircraft had been experiencing problems with its altimeter, which is used to measure altitude.
Mocho added: “It seems possible that if you had been listened to then lives might have been saved and this tragedy avoided.”
He concluded: “The one good thing to have emerged from this tragedy is the skill with which the crew members conducted a quick and professional evacuation which ensured that, in spite of the severe crash, many lives were saved.”
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