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From: Cecilia Pellegrini Petit (cpetit@attardco.com)
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Sent: 07 January 2003 10:10
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From: Cecilia Pellegrini Petit
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Ref: Kull Hadd 10th December 1995
Page 3
Danger in the Air
Since ships are not operating between Malta and Libya and passengers are obliged to fly to Tunisia on light aircrafts, businessmen involved in air travel are concerned about the danger arising thereof.
Persons catching these planes are not being given any tickets when they board . They are simply being told to be at the airport at a given time in order to catch a particular flight.
This is being done to make it seem that those persons (working in the oil industry) wishing to get to Libya are being flown over by someone who is doing them a favour. They are not catching commercial flights, as they would have to pay for such flights.
Planes carrying paying passengers require pilots to be in possession of a commercial licence. They are also required to have reputable insurance cover.
Small planes carrying passengers who fly to Tunisia, but whose destination is Libya, are not licensed to carry passengers further than 30 miles out of Malta.
Amongst these pilots are pilots only licensed to fly private aircrats. They are not authorized to fly commercial planes.
The Civil Aviation Department is allowing these flights knowing full well the danger involved. Serious problems are going to arise should one of these planes, piloted by a private licensed pilot, crash and should these companies not have adequate insurance.
The next of kin are likely to sue for damages on a large scale.
The Maltese passengers can sue the companies that operate the flights. For thousands of Liri. However the next-of-kin of those Germans and Americans availing themselves of these flights could sue for millions. They could sue the companies, the Civil Aviation and the Government of Malta who is allowing such flights to take place.
Ref: Kull Hadd 10th December 1995
Page 7 — (Editorial)
Danger in the Air
Two weeks ago, in the issue dated 26th November, this newspaper reported on page 3 “Danger in the Air”
This report stated that persons involved in air travel are concerned about the danger risk now that many persons are obliged to fly to Tunisia on small aircrafts because ships, between Malta and Libya, are not operating.
The report also stated that the Civil Aviation Department is allowing these flights to take place fully aware of the risks involved.
In no way do we wish to throw any bad light on what happened in the case of the Sun Aviation plane but it would be interesting to be told by the Authorities what immediate steps have been taken to eliminate the danger we mentioned in this paper two weeks ago.