The four-year MD aircraft safety challenge; When interests come before flight standards

The airline companies' insistence on repeated and 4-year extension of the flight qualification orders and refusal to change the turbine blades of the MD airplanes finally forced the Civil Aviation Organization to stop the flight of these airplanes; An approach that experts consider to be a necessary reaction against the resistance of the commercial sector to basic safety requirements and warnings from regulatory bodies.

The airline companies' insistence on repeated and 4-year extension of the flight qualification orders and refusal to change the turbine blades of the MD airplanes finally forced the Civil Aviation Organization to stop the flight of these airplanes; An approach that experts consider to be a necessary reaction against the resistance of the commercial sector to basic safety requirements and warnings from regulatory bodies.