Director of the Aircraft Owners’ Association, Kit Nascimento has commended the government for reemphasising the need for flight operations inspections in the wake of three separate plane crashes over a month that claimed the lives of two pilots and injured another.
“I can say that it is excellent that the government has advised the Director of Civil Aviation to step up on flight operations inspections since the association has for many years complained that we did not have fully qualified in-flight ops and inspectors in place. We do now, though, especially since we have a new Director of Civil Aviation and I am sure that he will be using those flight ops and inspectors to make sure that we have maximum safety at all times.”
He added, “Our aviation industry flies under very difficult conditions and in very dangerous territory and when that is taken into account, we have an extraordinarily good flight safety record in comparison to territories with similar terrains in different parts of the world, so I don’t think there is any need for any major concern at this stage but other than that I can only repeat that one should not ever speculate about accidents, one has to have evidence before they make any conclusions.”
