Objections to Accident Report
This refers to the article “Spiral Dive,” written by Mark Lacagnina, in the March 2012 issue of AeroSafety World. Ethiopian Airlines would like to express its deepest disappointment with the misconception and fallacies presented in the article based on a very controversial and one-sided report published by the Lebanese Ministry of Public Works and Transport in relation to the Ethiopian Airlines Flight 409 accident.
It is our firm belief, and we hope you will agree, that balance and accuracy are of paramount importance in the preparations leading to the dissemination of such a sensitive matter to the public. We are greatly saddened with the inaccuracies and the lack of fairness and balance reflected in this particular article.
The so-called investigation report contained numerous factual inaccuracies, internal contradictions and hypothetical statements that are not …
