Flight MU5735: chief of China’s civil aviation authority promises greater vigilance and stricter safety checks
- Feng Zhenglin, director of the Civil Aviation Administration, says safety is crucial to China’s vitality and national security, and must be protected
- He says there must be more thorough inspections and officials must improve their aviation safety knowledge
Speaking at a teleconference on Wednesday, Feng Zhenglin, director of the Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC), told officials to increase their knowledge of air safety regulations and to carry out more thorough inspections to detect hidden risks.
“Aviation safety is directly linked to [matters of] vital importance to the nation … and the overall prospect of national security. [We] must adopt an extremely responsible attitude, heightened vigilance, more pragmatic and effective measures to guard aviation safety tightly,” according to a statement released by the administration late on Wednesday evening.
“The entire industry must draw a lesson from the painful [MU5735 crash] experience and strive to prioritise the life and safety of people in conducting post-disaster follow-up measures, summarise the lessons learned based on investigation outcomes to strengthen safety and ensure the absolutely safety of people’s lives,” Feng added.
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