Bold Traveller mag 8

Emirates, Fly Dubai pilots complain of
work PDF under Compressor fatigue, Free Version intimidation and misuse of
authority
EMIRATES is a United Arab Emirates
(UAE)government airline ,headquaof
239 passenger aircrafts and anothover
131 destinations including
Entebbe airport . Cut from the same
cloth is FLY DUBAI ,a lower cost
airline established by the same(UAE)
government in 2008 and operating
Entebbe airport .
A FLY DUBAI boeing 737-800
plane,on march 19 this year hit the
ground while attempting to land at
Rostov-on-Don airport in south
Russia killing all the 62 people on
board.
Scene of the plane crush
Russia killing all the 62 people on -
board . Following that accident ,a FLY
DUBAI whistleblower, contacted RT
international - a Russian government
media agency with allegations that
pilot fatigue could have been a
contributing factor to the march 19
Rostov tragedy.Shortly afterwards ,
some 60 people claiming to be pilots
who work or have worked for FLY
DUBAI and EMIRATES contacted RT
international with similar complaints
and expressing fear that the same
kind of accident could happen with an
hours worked by the pilots.
In an interim report to establish the
cause of the Rostov accident released
on april 19, the Russian aviation
watchdog IAC, said that all ground and
on board navigation systems were
working normally at the time of the
accident. The report further pointed
out that the accident occurred as a
result of a nosedive caused by the
commands of the pilot .
On a condition of anonymity, one of
the pilots still working with EMIRATES
told RT that "piots are dangerously tired
and if you complain , complaints lead
no where as the aviation authority- the
General Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA)