Showing posts with label Emirates. Show all posts
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Friday, 12 September 2014

Airline boss suggests Malaysian tragedy could have been avoided

The boss of Emirates has told the BBC it would have avoided flying over Ukraine if knowledge high altitude missiles were there had been passed on.
The president of Emirates, Sir Tim Clark, said: "There was evidence that these missiles had been on site, in situ for a number of weeks beforehand.
"Emirates did not know of that fact, and I don't think many others did."
He said though that some carriers did appear to know, but didn't share information.
He said it was likely that every airline would have by-passed the danger zone if they had known.
It's widely believed that a missile downed Malaysian flight MH17 on 17th July, killing all 298 people on board.
Planes had been cleared to fly in the area as long as they stayed above a certain height, and a report earlier this week highlighted the fact that