Yemenia Air's plane crashed

... another airplane crashed into the ocean...
the homepage i open daily titled like this: "a 19 year old Airbus A310 crashed into the ocean"

Soon a huge discussion started on this homepage about safety and technical service of airplanes.
One after another wrote that flying isn't safe any more and all airlines safe money by spending less money on technical service and that 19 year old airplanes can't be safe any more.
this is one of the biggest lies about airplanes and airlines!!!
I'm studying Tourism and Travel Management and just a few weeks ago we talked about technical service of airplanes in my class...
We got a list of all the checks an airline has to do regulary. This list included about 7-10 checks. From the Pre-Flight-Check, which has to be done before every flight by the mechanices and afterwards again by the pilot, to the D-Check, which means that every plane has to be fully taken apart and rebuild. This D-Check takes four to six weeks and has to be done every six to ten years. But after this D-Check you can say the plane is completly rebuild and almost like a new one.
The aircraft companies say that these checks HAVE to be done!
If an airline doesn't care this much about security, they might not be allowed to enter some air spaces, like it was with this Yemenia Air of which the plane crashed into the ocean. This airline wasn't allowed to enter France's air space any more.

So next time, when you're flying somewhere keep in mind that an awful lot of checks have to be done regulary and that just because you see an airplane arrive at the gate and fly off again after an hour, doesn't mean that the plane didn't get checked.

greetings from Germany
-Krissi