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"Madam President, we still do not know the exact cause of the recent tragic aeroplane crashes in recent months. However, they do not appear to have been caused by the sort of terrorist action or attack which we have been focusing all our attention on preventing here over recent months. On the contrary, it would appear that they were caused by a fatal combination of human error and mechanical fault.
I therefore call on the European Commission to immediately extend its independent investigation to an examination of all airlines in Europe, to include two additional aspects:
First, the very serious matter of the intensification of the working hours of both flying and ground airline staff over recent years, which certainly affects flight safety.
Secondly, the ratio between flying time and maintenance time for aircraft which has come about in each airline over recent years again, I suspect, at the expense of safety.
Commissioner, people are more important than profits. If, unfortunately, Europe has a tendency to forget this in numerous sectors in Europe for the sake of unbridled competition, it is time it was reminded of it, at least where human lives are at stake. We must not wait for tragedies to happen in order to act; we must act before they happen."@en1
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