Brussels, 24/09/2015 (Agence Europe) - On Thursday 24 September, the European Commission sent a letter of formal notice to Germany, criticising the lack of financial resources and personnel of the Luftfahrtbundesamt (LBA), the German federal civil aviation office responsible for examining the technical safety of the equipment and clearing pilots to fly.
The case is not a new one. The European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) sounded the alarm regarding the chronic lack of control staff in...