Airplanes crashes... repeated catastrophic incidents!

A plane crash is a truly catastrophic incident, whatever the size of aircraft or in terms of the lives lost.

In Sudan, unfortunately, the airplane crashes incidents have been dramatically increasing over the last several years, to the extent that it has become very normal to hearing such news in the internal travel trips, and the official narrative always goes “Bad weather conditions or technical reasons were behind the incident”, the matter that may makes you think thousands times before you decide to make such trip by air in the country.

Although the official and public demand for air travel has also increased steadily over the last years, either due to the need for speed or because some areas do not have safety and paved roads, yet the relevant authorities seem to be unwilling to address the root-causes of these repeated and tragic incidents! Where we always just hear about investigations would be conducted to know the real reason behind the incident, and we never heard about the final outcome of the black boxes of the crashed planes.

In less than two months, another military plane, carrying personnel and equipments, crashed southwest of Khartoum on Sunday, killing 15 people, to be added to the long list of the tragic aircraft incidents, which are Increasing steadily while the fatal air accident rate world-wide has decreased.

Although many international and local media outlets reported that the government complains that its aviation sector has been degraded by more than ten years of US economic sanctions which prevent the country from buying spare parts, yet the issue is urgently needed to be addressed, or at least to stop such unsafe air trips until finding final solution, so as to avoid such catastrophic and tragic accidents and to maintain the reputation of the Sudanese aviation, especially with the fact that the European Union has recently decided to ban Sudanese aircrafts from entering its airspace citing lack of safety standards.