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Companies that can't afford to fly safely shouldn't fly at all, some experts say. "I don't want to have the dead bodies keep stacking up and us say, 'Well, regulation costs money so we shouldn't have it,'" says Albert. "In aviation it's safety first and economics second...
...follow a pattern, one that looks a lot like Kirby's last flight: pilots launch in flyable conditions, only to be confronted midflight by unexpected foul weather, darkness and terrain that they are unequipped to handle. "The FAA says they need to study the situation some more," says Vernon Albert, one of the industry's top safety experts. "That's garbage. They need to get off their butts." (See a story about surviving disasters...
...safety equipment needed to fly at night or in bad weather. Flying an underpowered helicopter blind in foul weather is a common cause of fatal crashes, safety experts say. "There's nothing wrong with the Bell 206, but you have to recognize it's a small aircraft," says Vernon Albert, who founded 34 EMS flight programs, 15% of the nation's total fleet. "But where I get the rub is when the weather turns bad or gets dark. It's pretty limited in those conditions...
...Sylvie Uderzo insists her father stick by his earlier pledges that the Asterix series end upon his death. Albert Uderzo says he now trusts Hachette Livre to do right by Asterix - and both current and future fans. "I recall the letters I got after the death of René Goscinny," Uderzo explained this week. "Readers told me that it couldn't end there, which is why I had to continue the adventure...
...Read TIME's Nerd World blog about creator Albert Uderzo...