Are Some Airlines Safer than Others?

HUFFINGTON POST: Avoid air carriers registered in Kazakhstan, Sudan, Afghanistan, Rwanda, Angola, Benin, the Democratic Republic of Congo -- you get the picture.

SHOOT: Maybe Air France/Airbus too?

clipped from www.huffingtonpost.com According to The Independent of London, you should think carefully before flying Yemenia airlines (and a whole lot of other carriers). "Yemenia's fleet has certainly come in for considerable criticism in the past," says the Independent. "Most damningly, French inspectors who looked at the plane at Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris in 2007 noticed a number of faults. The aircraft was banned from flying in French airspace and, under the EC's safety directives, they instructed Yemenia to carry out stricter checks on the place in future. But Yemen's Transport minister, Khaled Ibrahim al-Wazeer, insisted it had since been rigorously checked under the supervision of Airbus experts." Beyond Yemenia airlines, according to Clive Irving in The Daily Beast, "more than 160 airlines are on (the European Union) black list, meaning that they are not allowed to fly into or out of E.U. countries."