Flying over the Sinai Peninsula

The Sinai plane crash raises a couple of chief questions. It has to be seriously and independently investigated. It would be unacceptable to see any kind of national political considerations masking the truth. There is such a risk, I am afraid.

People should know the causes. The next wave of tourists, of course, and all those flying over the region – it is an important corridor for aircraft going or coming out of the Gulf States – but also the relatives of those who lost their lives on Saturday. 

Mourning

Today´s crash of a German airplane on the French Alps is very much in the news in our part of the world. The shock is deep. Everyone thinks of the families that have been so dramatically affected, in particular those parents who have lost their children in the accident.

 It is time to mourn. It is also time to call for a full disclosure of the findings once the investigation on the crash has been completed. People have the right to know. And so often people think that in these matters they are kept away from the truth of the facts.