11:00 Monday 9th June 2014
BBC Radio Cambridgeshire
NEWSREADER: The MP for South East Cambridgeshire believes that Cambridge Airport has accepted some of the allegations put by BBC Radio Cambridgeshire’s report which highlighted some safety concerns. Whistleblowers and leaked management emails have highlighted concerns about equipment failures and the state of the runway. Bit Jim Paice says the airport is a major boost for the city.
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JIM PAICE: Your reports repeated Etihad’s comments, which is obviously they’re now going to seek reassurances. Clearly any new airline thinking of coming into Cambridge would want to do the same. But should they expand? Yes, in my view it is a tremendous facility. We can have flights in and out of our own airport, particularly for business purposes. It must do the whole of Cambridgeshire a great deal of good. So I am certainly not suggesting that we shouldn’t have flights from Cambridge. We just need to make sure they’re safe.
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NEWSREADER: Cambridge Airport said that safety above all is of paramount importance.
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11:20 Monday 9th June 2014
ANDIE HARPER: I’ve had an email from John, who’s .. and this is what he says: Continue reading “Cambridge Airport Safety – a Pilot’s Perspective”