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The recent airline crash has been the Germanwings Airbus crashes in French Alps with 150 people on board. The Germanwings plane flying from Barcelona to Dusseldorf disappeared off the radar before crashing. The crashes has been of concern internationally, as in the last 14 months that have been a series of high profile air crashes, a worrying number of which remain unresolved. There has also been talk in the public sphere on the safety of travelling using airlines and the competency of pilots. Today on the program we look at aviation safety.
To help us look at the weekend’s happenings we have on the line”
• J.P Truter, is the deputy CEO of the Commercial Aviation Association of South Africa
• Mandy Van Der Moelen, chief flight instructor with the South African Flight Training Association
• Linden Burns, MD of the magazine Plane Talking