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Mil craash
A Mil Mi-8MTV, operated by Russia's Ministry of Emergency Situations, crashed near Sochi, on the Black Sea coast, on 21 November during a search-and-rescue mission. Five of the nine passengers were killed. The helicopter wreckage was recovered four days later. An investigation into the cause is under way. ...
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Commander redirects
Financially ailing light-aircraft manufacturer Commander Aircraft has raised $3.6 million from majority shareholder KuwAm, to expand its aviation-services division, which brokers and refurbishes single-engined and twin-piston turboprop and jet-powered general-aviation aircraft. Source: Flight International
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Additional PC-12
Alpha Flying has added a third Pilatus PC-12 single-turboprop to its PlaneSense fractional-ownership programme, launched in the north-east USA in late 1995. According to the company, the third aircraft is almost fully subscribed and a fourth has been ordered. Source: Flight International
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Jet increases support
Raytheon Aircraft has expanded Jet Aviation's service-centre authorisation to include support of the Beech King Air and Beechjet at Geneva and the King Air at Zurich, in Switzerland, and the King Air, Baron and Bonanza at Düsseldorf, Germany. Source: Flight International
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Ariane roll
The European Space Agency says that the cause of the "roll torque" experienced by the Ariane 502 launcher on 30 October, resulting in it reaching a lower-than-planned orbit, was an unexpected reaction to the separation of the solid-rocket boosters. The attempt to recover the boosters in the sea, as planned, ...
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Eurockot study
Motorola is considering using 20 Russian Rokot launches to help maintain an operational 66-satellite Iridium worldwide mobile communications system. The Rokot is marketed by Daimler-Benz Aerospace and Russia's Khrunichev under the name Eurockot. Source: Flight International
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On the ball
NASA has selected Ball Aerospace, of Colorado, to build the first spacecraft in its rapid-delivery satellite programme, in which eight companies were awarded initial contracts to prepare for work on "catalogue" craft (Flight International, 22-28 October). The Quick Scatterometer, QuickScat ,will be launched by a Titan 2 from Vandenberg AFB, ...
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Airports survey - Major airports traffic, first half of 1997
Rank 97 Airport Passengers 97 Pax % change Domestic 97 Dom % change International 97 Intl % change Freight 97 Freight % change Movements 97 Move % change 1 Atlanta 39.58 ...
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Airports survey - Airport financial results
City or country Airport company Revenue 1996 Revenue % change Net result 1996 Net result 1995 Year End United Kingdom BAA plc 2,175.9 11.0 469.1 492.9 Mar-97 Frankfurt Flughafen ...
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Airports survey - Top 50 airports 1996
Rank 96 Rank 95 Airport Passengers 96 Pass % change Domestic 96 Dom % change International 96 Intl % change Freight 96 Freight % change Movements 96 Move % change 1 1 ...
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Aeroflot rapped
Following a safety incident in Seattle, US FAA investigators noticed that Khabarovsk Airlines, a renamed former Aeroflot division which now flies scheduled services from Russia's far east to Anchorage and Seattle, was using Aeroflot's operating certificate. The FAA has issued Khabarovsk with its own certificate but may penalise both Aeroflot ...
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Lufthansa freed
The German government floated its remaining 37.5 per cent stake in Lufthansa for $2.77 billion. Source: Airline Business
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Friendly Finns
Finnair has opened talks with British Airways on an alliance to replace agreement with Lufthansa, which expired in October. The airlines will examine joint marketing and FFP participation and ways to increase penetration of the Scandinavian market to match that of SAS and Lufthansa. Source: Airline Business
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Olympic effort
The European Commission has dropped an anti-trust case against Olympic Airways in exchange for an end to its ground handling monopoly in Athens from January and changes in Greek employment laws. Source: Airline Business
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Air China to go for IPO
Air China is pressing ahead with plans for its own initial public offering despite the postponement of the listing by the CAAC's commercial arm, China National Aviation Corporation. Air China aims to shrug off its state control and partially privatise within two years. 'We'll float by 1999 at the ...
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The wall comes tumbling down?
Lois Jones The Great Wall of China runs slap bang through Air China's offices. Or so it seems to the uninformed outsider. Over the years, the state-controlled Civil Aviation Administration of China has constructed a wall of resistance designed to keep outside influences and potential friends and foes away ...
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Hub fever
In many industries, concentration forces have led to a few large mass producers with a global reach, each striving to achieve the lowest unit costs through increased efficiencies and higher production volumes. In the airline industry, global alliances are being created to achieve similar goals. However, the individual airline operators ...
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Hitch for BA and Qantas
Alliance partners planning extended codesharing between Europe and Australia have had their strategies thrown into disarray by the Australian government's route rights authority. In a draft ruling the Canberra-based International Air Services Commission (IASC) shocked Qantas and British Airways by saying it will refuse them permission for a wide-ranging ...
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BA in pursuit of leisure
British Airways' much-hyped plans to launch a low-cost point-to-point carrier may herald a larger push into the European leisure market, including a standalone charter operation. BA has already come under fire for considering its own no-frills carrier to limit the advance in the UK market of low-cost players like ...
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Boeing hits bottleneck
Boeing is trying hard to swallow a bitter pill of late delivery charges and costs linked to production delays and to get back on top of its aircraft production rate buildup. Boeing's decision to shut down its B747 and B737 production lines for a month follows a frenzy of ...