CROAIR SAYS: ENGINES OF OUR AEROPLANES NEVER FAILED IN AIR

ZAGREB, Sept 20 (Hina) - The "Croatia Airlines" company on Tuesday dismissed allegations by the Nacional weekly that "in the past 15 months Croatia Airlines aeroplanes registered 11 engine failures in air". In the past several years never has any engine on a Croatia Airlines aeroplane failed, the company's public relations office said. relevant international experts have many times confirmed Croatia Airlines aircraft safety, and a recent report by a team of British experts, the Croatian airline company has been placed among the one hundred safest airline companies in the world (of the 477 tested), with a safety quotient of 0.847 (with the maximum being 1), the office said in a statement. Moreover, aircraft inspections are very frequent at European airports, and their comments to Croatia Airlines have never pertained to flight safety. Croatia Airlines signed several-year contracts on the joint transport of passengers with renowned companies such as Air France, Lufthansa and Alitalia, which send their experts to check the safety of the company's aircraft on a regular basis, and continue to entrust Croatia Airlines with the transport of their passengers, the statement said. In an article entitled "Passengers Over Croatia in Mortal Danger", Nacional claims that reports by international flight safety teams about air traffic over Croatia are devastating, which is why they were never presented to the public of air traffic controllers. (hina) lml