Aviation News Item: 00189

26th Oct 2009

Source: ubmaviationnews.com

Air France sent a letter to all its flight crew last week, urging them to be more vigilant and adhere to safety procedures, according to media reports. An internal safety survey showed that careless behavior had repeatedly led to a number of incidents where safety was compromised. Examples of such rule breaches were ignoring a cockpit warning signal, which should have prompted the pilots to abort takeoff, and reporting technical issues too late. Representatives of pilot unions have reacted angrily to the letter from the carrier's head of operations and head of safety departments, especially as it also asked pilots not to challenge the official investigation into the A330 crash on June 1. The representatives criticised the fact that relatively minor safety lapses were named in context to this major accident. UBM Aviation News reported on October 5, that members of the Spaf pilot union submitted the results of its own investigation to the French judicial authorities. It claimed the aircraft would not have crashed without the failure of the Pitot tubes and concluded the accident could have been avoided.

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