Greek airliner disaster

[~Shard~]

The people responsible for this crash are looking to be the airline itself. The effects of cost cutting on one of few private airlines of Cyprus has proven to offer cheap tickets but EXPENSIVE safety. The boeing 737 is a very popular jet used by many cost cutting airlines all over the world (JetBlue, Southwest, etc.) I hope this is the last of this kind of problem.

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Further to that point, I have a friend who used to do airline maintenance on the tarmac, and he said that if he told me half of the stories he knew, I would never want to fly again. He commented on many horror stories where the maintenance of a lot of these craft simply isn't up to spec, things are missed and/or omitted, and due to the sheer age of some crafts, many other hazards are quite possible. Hearing about the condition and upkeep of some of these planes, it doesn't surprise me when incidents like this happen.