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Air Botswana's Only Embraer E170 Is Grounded By Regulators
On May 25th, Air Bostwana was unable to continue its regional schedules after its only Embraer E-170 aircraft was grounded by the Civil Aviation Authority of Botswana (CAAB) and had its Certificate of Airworthiness suspended for safety reasons. (www.msn.com) 更多...
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It is also possible that they did not get any brown envelopes and decided to look for a reason to pressure them to pay bribes. I live in THailand for 30 years now no further comment :)
bribe*, obviously
Not surprising.. If they are not safe, they need to be grounded.
Read Air Botswana's statement here https://avcom.co.za/phpBB3/download/file.php?id=482031&mode=view
As a matter of interest, Air Botswana has never had a fatal accident during commercial ops and only five incidents are listed on ASN. In 1999 a pilot suffering mental health issues stole one of Air Botswana's ATR 42s and committed suicide destroying two other ATR 42s in the process. The pilot had been grounded for medical reasons.
The typical SOP for this situation is a bride to look the other way, or at minimum gross incompetence and apathy, choosing to do nothing about the situation.