Dear Editor,
It's time for the director general of the Jamaica Civil Aviation Authority to be removed from office. I am, however, bracing to hear that "everybady 'affi eat a food".
Be that as it may, it's time for the individual at whose pleasure the director general of the Jamaica Civil Aviation Authority serves, to act.
It was reported as far back as December 14, 2011, that the Jamaica Civil Aviation Authority (JCAA) has "a clear picture of what happened at the Norman Manley International Airport on the night of December 22, 2009". We next heard on August 2, 2012 in this same paper that: "AA crash report (was) coming soon." Then on December 31, 2012 and on February 14, 2013 respectively, there was virtually the same report, "AA crash report will be ready next month".
What may save face for the JCAA is that the Authority, in its wisdom, did not specify in which year these reports would be unveiled.
It's ironic that, in just three days after the crash-landing of the Asiana Flight 214 777 in San Francisco, the authorities have a pretty good feel as to "what went wrong". Let's see how soon the final report of that accident is unveiled. Nevertheless, here we are — three-and-a-half years after the crash of American Airlines Flight 331 in Kingston — and every six months or so, we get the same song and dance.
I do not blame the director general of the Jamaica Civil Aviation Authority solely for this sort of slackness. Instead, I blame the individual at whose pleasure the director general serves. They have been taking the Jamaican public for a ride. We should therefore not rant and rave when outsiders label Jamaica as a "backwater", because that's what we are.
Raymond Ford
Michigan, USA
fordraye1@aol.com
Time for the director general ro fly away
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It's time for the director general of the Jamaica Civil Aviation Authority to be removed from office. I am, however, bracing to hear that "everybady 'affi eat a food".
Be that as it may, it's time for the individual at whose pleasure the director general of the Jamaica Civil Aviation Authority serves, to act.
It was reported as far back as December 14, 2011, that the Jamaica Civil Aviation Authority (JCAA) has "a clear picture of what happened at the Norman Manley International Airport on the night of December 22, 2009". We next heard on August 2, 2012 in this same paper that: "AA crash report (was) coming soon." Then on December 31, 2012 and on February 14, 2013 respectively, there was virtually the same report, "AA crash report will be ready next month".
What may save face for the JCAA is that the Authority, in its wisdom, did not specify in which year these reports would be unveiled.
It's ironic that, in just three days after the crash-landing of the Asiana Flight 214 777 in San Francisco, the authorities have a pretty good feel as to "what went wrong". Let's see how soon the final report of that accident is unveiled. Nevertheless, here we are — three-and-a-half years after the crash of American Airlines Flight 331 in Kingston — and every six months or so, we get the same song and dance.
I do not blame the director general of the Jamaica Civil Aviation Authority solely for this sort of slackness. Instead, I blame the individual at whose pleasure the director general serves. They have been taking the Jamaican public for a ride. We should therefore not rant and rave when outsiders label Jamaica as a "backwater", because that's what we are.
Raymond Ford
Michigan, USA
fordraye1@aol.com
Time for the director general ro fly away
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