>The point is not that a "Latino" can't be trusted to fix a plane, but that a
>company that chooses to locate its maintenance in a low-regulation country
>like El Salvador can't be trusted to do the maintenance correctly.
At 8:40 PM +0000 10/2/05, Mark S wrote:
>I thought that article was pretty ignorant and slanderous to El
>Salvadoreans. My dad once worked for a small airline that had its
>licence revoked on maintenance concerns. Not after an accident, but
>on concerns. I understand that the FAA oversees everything that
>U.S. airlines do, including the explicit approval of any vendor that
>performs any type of maintenance on any aircraft registered in the
>U.S.
>
>TACA hasn't had an accident due to equipment failure since 1959. So
>much for incompetent Latinos...