World view on aircraft maintenance professionals.

If certain groups get their way, there will come a time in the near future when you may have to write an obituary for the Licenced Aircraft Maintenance Engineer and other Aircraft Maintenance professionals. Among the groups allied against us are the airline operators who see independent certifying staff as a threat to their schedule and their bottom line, rather than the best insurance they could have to preserve their multimillion dollar assets in the sky.

The two union representatives, who lost their jobs in the helicopter company CHC Norway, are reinstated. CHC Norway "fully reverse the engines" and make redundancies invalid, says Norvald P. Holte, secretary of the union leaders of the Western region, whom has been the spokesperson for the two dismissed union representatives. 

Aircraft Engineers International`s Annual Congress held in Varna, Bulgaria 23-26 Sept. fully support and congratulate the Norwegian union with the victory against illegal violation against union representatives.

The study was presented to the Flight Safety Foundation’s European Aviation Safety Seminar in Nicosia, by its two Cypriot authors, Dr Sofia Michaelides-Mateou, a professor of Law at Nicosia University, and Dr Andreas Mateou, an A320 captain.

Dr. Sofia Michaelides-Mateou and Dr Andreas Mateou will attend the AEI Annual Congess in Varna and make a presentation:

"Safety v Criminalization"

 Annual Congress 2009 Agenda
 

A Yemenia Airbus 310 crashed on Tuesday near the Comoros in the Indian Ocean, with 153 people on board.

The airline was banned from France in 2007 because of "irregularities", France's transport minister has said.

Dominique Bussereau told parliament of ongoing concerns about the safety record of the Yemenia Airbus 310.

Debris located early Tuesday in the Atlantic Ocean off the northeast coast of Brazil is wreckage from the Air France A330-200 that disappeared Monday, Brazil's Defense Minister Nelson Jobim said.
No survivors have been found, he said.

AIRCRAFT ENGINEERS INTERNATIONAL executive Board would like to express its acute emotion after the tragedy of Air France A330 Airbus operating the flight AF 447 between Rio and Paris.

A.E.I  gives its most sincere condolences to the families of the 216 passengers and those of the 12 crew members.

As usual we recommend to not conclude any rapid hypothesis until the completion of official investigations!