When it comes to accidents, Grand Aire has few peers
"I was on the phone immediately," he recalled. "The whole thing was, ‘What’s going on with that operation?’ ... Good planes don’t just crash. Something is happening here."
Except for the 2001 terrorist attacks, it was the first known time any U.S. carrier had lost two planes on the same day. The crashes became Grand Aire’s ninth and 10th in the last 10 years. A Blade story in April identified nine of the crashes, but omitted one because of incomplete federal record-keeping.
The firm’s owner, Tahir Cheema, voluntarily grounded the fleet for a week, saying he wanted to figure out what had gone wrong. But he was adamant that his company was just as safe as its competitors.
Well said.