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[Γι&]

Do you think the goverment or HELIOS can make a cover-up story and get away with it. (bare in mind that nobody know yet why the aircraft crashed)

[cypezokyli]

it dissapeared from the newspapers it will disappear from our memories as well.
next year in august the tv channels will go and take some more shots of the crying mothers and then forget about it.

i am not that optimistic when it comes to paying for mistakes in cyprus.
hope the future will prove me wrong

[Γι&]

So who do you think is to blame and why

[OB1]

So who do you think is to blame and why

I think the media are still celebrating. It was the 14th of August , nothing was happening....booom an aeroplane went down and all of a sadden everybody is an aeroplane expert. The tragic is that media make money out of peoples miseries, and according the Cyprus law whatever they say can not be questioned........that is worring

[Sotos]

OB1, the media do this all the time. Is this the fault of media or the fault of the people that really like to watch the miseries of others?

[cypezokyli]

Is this the fault of media or the fault of the people that really like to watch the miseries of others?

thats a good question sotos.
to be honest i was in cyprus at the time and after 3-4 days i stopped watching tv

So who do you think is to blame and why

i am not an expert. as a result i prefer to keep silence rather than saying sth stupid.
in general...ofcource the company is to blame and the institution responsible for checcking the security of planes is also to blame

[Sotos]

to be honest i was in cyprus at the time and after 3-4 days i stopped watching tv

Me too. It was a very sad event but I didn't feel like watching people crying about it every day. I think those were personal things and there was no reason to air them all the time.

[rotate]

So who do you think is to blame and why

I've spent my working life in aviation and have unfortunately been involved in several air accident investigations throughout the world some of which have taken years to complete.

There are never instant answers as an accident is the culmination of a whole series of events. Mechanical failure/human error/weather conditions or a combination of all three are extremely difficult to investigate and diagnose. No investigation authority will or should be expected to reach a hasty or ill conceived conclusion to satisfy public or media curiosity.

The families and friends of air accident victims should at least be given an honest reason for their loss. Prospective passengers serving air crew and those on the ground deserve to know that aircraft are as safe as can be made humanly possible. The 'Blame Game' helps no one as those under investigation seek to cover themselves first if they come under media or public attack before the investigation authorities have completed their task.

The Greek and Cypriot aviation regulatory authorities have always been widely respected within the industry, dispite some fairly headline grabbing statements in the press they continue to be respected. If they were not then other countries aviation authorities would refuse permission for them to over fly their air space or land/operate at their airports.

Speculation clouds the facts and introduces political dimensions to a disaster.

[OB1]

In this media battered country im surprized finding someone that can actually think on his own.

[OB1]

i am not an expert. as a result i prefer to keep silence rather than saying sth stupid.
in general...ofcource the company is to blame and the institution responsible for checcking the security of planes is also to blame[/quote]

Im sorry to say this but you started your comment by saying that your not an expert and that you'll keep silence.....and then you say that the company is to blame and so does the institution.......so what are you saying?