Flydubai meets safety recommendations in crash report

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Flydubai meets safety recommendations in crash report

Dubai - Flydubai welcomes Interim Report on the Russia crash; responds to the five initial flight safety recommendations made in the report.

Published: Thu 21 Apr 2016, 9:01 PM

In a statement issued on Wednesday night, flydubai welcomed the publication of the Interim Report (Preliminary Reference Information) on Accident Investigation by the Interstate Aviation Committee (IAC).
The statement, attributed to Ghaith Al Ghaith, CEO, flydubai, said:

'flydubai welcomes the publication today of the Interim Report (Preliminary Reference Information) on Accident Investigation by the Interstate Aviation Committee (IAC).
We would also like to thank the investigating authorities for their continued commitment to investigate this tragic accident.
With regard to the five initial flight safety recommendations flydubai has, as part of the ongoing communications within our emergency response plan, continued to update our crew and engineers with the information published by the IAC.
With regard to the recommendations 2 and 3, these same procedures for go-around and flight simulator training have been in place since the airline was launched in 2009 and form part of standard operating procedures in line with industry best-practice.
In relation to the fourth and fifth recommendation, as standard practice we review safety recommendations in the industry.
flydubai is audited by the regulator and meets the highest safety, operating and training standards.'

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