Nigeria: Air Crashes - Avoidable Tragedy in Aviation Industry

8 June 2012

A Cameroonian woman who works at Frankfurt International Airport, Germany told THISDAY on Tuesday that she heard about the plane crash in Nigeria which killed so many people and was shocked.

This was what she said, "I am always afraid to travel by air when I travel to Africa because I don't trust African airlines. Here, they are very meticulous and they are careful with their maintenance so accidents rarely happen. We only hear the ones that happen regularly in Africa."

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