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Are Canadian skies as safe as they could be? Questions remain
Regulators threatened to ground Canada's Porter Airlines over safety problems in 2008, according to documents reviewed by Reuters, but the matter was kept secret for years - a sign, some critics say, of how little the public is told about the safety of Canadian airlines.
August 24, 2015 By Reuters
The documents, prepared by staff at the federal transport regulator, show that in early October that year, the federal government inspectors scored Porter at only two on a scale of one to five, where five is best and three indicates compliance. The threat was first reported in the Canadian media in 2011 but the score and some of the reasons for it have not been previously disclosed.
Reuters got access to the documents in June from Transport Canada, the nation’s main transport regulator, under Canada’s Access to Information Act. | READ MORE
