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Monday, September 20, 2010
Monday, September 13, 2010
TU - 154
Some companies are still flying TU-154. I would never think that any normal person would fly it after reading a history of the accidents from wiki:
There have been 67 serious flight incidents with Tu-154s, including 37 hull-losses involving fatalities. Incidents have resulted from mechanical problems (two cases prior to 2001), running out of fuel on unscheduled extended route, pilot error, and cargo fires.
There are less then 200 planes left flying in the world and we already see 3 major TU-154 accidents in 2010. I would never fly the plane if travel agency only gave me 98-99% of success on landing :)
Cuba is firing 500K people
I wonder if Castro is considering it safe shaving 500K people from the government job list. I mean even if we consider they do it evenly through the time, it will be almost 120K of fired people per month. In the end Cuba will easily jump over 10% unemployment rate (Cuba's official work force is 5.1 million — meaning nearly 10 percent of all employees could soon be out of a government job.).
I think we've seen already what happened in Greece when union was cut and many people were left without job. Is Cuba a new economic bomb waiting to go off in coming weeks?
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