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France Publishes Airlines Blacklist

2005-8-30 21:35:57

France civil aviation authority has published a list of five airliners banned in its airspace for safety reasons.

Maxime Coffin, an official with the France civil aviation explained the necessity that every country should improve safety standard of its airliners.

"It would be quite hard to achieve the progress in terms of international civil aviation around the globe if we do not improve the safety standard. I think it is our responsibility to issue the list in public."

The five banned airliners are from North Korea, the United States and Liberia, Mozambique and Thailand. Though all the airliners had been banned in recent years, France had never before made the list public.

The measure was announced after a series of five aviation accidents in the past few months, including one involving a charter that crashed in Venezuela, killing 152 French citizens on board.

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