Re: JetBlue: Outsourcing Our Safety
Nathan Newman wrote:
The point is not that a “Latino” can’t be trusted to fix a plane, but that a company that chooses to locate its maintenance in a low-regulation country like El Salvador can’t be trusted to do the maintenance correctly.
At 8:40 PM +0000 10/2/05, Mark S wrote:
I thought that article was pretty ignorant and slanderous to El Salvadoreans. My dad once worked for a small airline that had its licence revoked on maintenance concerns. Not after an accident, but on concerns. I understand that the FAA oversees everything that U.S. airlines do, including the explicit approval of any vendor that performs any type of maintenance on any aircraft registered in the U.S.
TACA hasn’t had an accident due to equipment failure since 1959. So much for incompetent Latinos…