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The Mexican charter company which owned the plane that crashed in Havana on Friday, killing 110 people, has been the subject of two serious complaints about its crews’ performance over the last decade, according to authorities in Guyana and a retired pilot for Cuba’s national airline.

The plane that crashed was barred from Guyanese airspace last year after authorities discovered that its crew had been allowing dangerous overloading of luggage on flights to Cuba, Guyanese civil aviation director Capt Egbert Field said.

Ovidio Martinez Lopez, a pilot for Cubana for more than 40 years until he retired six years ago, wrote on Facebook that a plane rented from the Mexican company by Cubana briefly dropped off radar while over the city of Santa Clara in 2010 or 2011, triggering an immediate response by Cuban aviation security officials.

 

As a result, Cuban officials suspended a captain and co-pilot for “serious technical knowledge issues” and the aviation security authority issued a formal recommendation that Cubana stop renting planes and crews from the Mexican company, Martinez wrote.

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It is the Cuban government fault. They are behaving like an old timer koolie man who eats salt and rice and drinks sugar water but hides all him money under his mattress. Why rent an old third hand plane when you can buy a new plane from Russia.

Prashad
Prashad posted:

It is the Cuban government fault. They are behaving like an old timer koolie man who eats salt and rice and drinks sugar water but hides all him money under his mattress. Why rent an old third hand plane when you can buy a new plane from Russia.

Prashad you are one fkt up man.

one breath you calling for an independent Indian state . 

Now you bashing the koolie man Economic ways of surviving. The coolie man put the money under the mattress for his  children future 

they are proud to survive this way, than can’t spend every earn cent today  and have nothing tom.. you kunt 

FM
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I used to do load and balance with Air-India at JFK. Overloading the cargo is a safety breach. This is one of many reasons a plane would drop out from the sky, but not very usual. When you work with the airlines, you don't compromise safety to satisfy customers. 

FM
Dave posted:
Prashad posted:

It is the Cuban government fault. They are behaving like an old timer koolie man who eats salt and rice and drinks sugar water but hides all him money under his mattress. Why rent an old third hand plane when you can buy a new plane from Russia.

Prashad you are one fkt up man.

one breath you calling for an independent Indian state . 

Now you bashing the koolie man Economic ways of surviving. The coolie man put the money under the mattress for his  children future 

they are proud to survive this way, than can’t spend every earn cent today  and have nothing tom.. you kunt 

Life and health is the most important thing.  No compromise should be made on that.

Prashad

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