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Flight Safety Foundation to research helicopter emergency services safety
The accident rate among US helicopter emergency medical services (HEMS) operators has been so consistently bad for so many years that the Flight Safety Foundation is planning a research programme to discover its underlying causes.
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Investigators retrieve data from crashed A320's recorders
Investigators have succeeded in retrieving data from the flight recorders of the Airbus A320 which crashed into the Mediterranean Sea in November. After...
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NewsUSAF starts public search for Air Force One replacement
The US Air Force yesterday took the first public step in the search for a replacement of the Boeing VC-25 Air Force One, the presidential aircraft fleet. The...
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Air France widely believed to be Alitalia winner
Italian sources confirm that Air France-KLM is tipped as the overwhelming favourite to be the new Alitalia's international partner. The tug-of-war...
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Source runway friction data from aircraft: UK investigators
UK investigators are proposing that on-board aircraft data be exploited as a source of runway friction information, following an inquiry into a series of...
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NewsVIDEO: Brazilian helicopter accident captured by security camera
All but one of the occupants of an AgustaWestland A-109C survived a crash near São Paulo, Brazil in which the aircraft suddenly entered a high-rate descent...
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CityFlyer: E-Jet's speed against Q400 helped swing decision
British Airways CityFlyer says speed was a factor in the selection of the Embraer E-Jet over the Bombardier Q400 as it would have needed to order an additional...
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Boeing orders fall to five year low
Boeing has announced sales and production figures for 2008 showing commercial aircraft orders plunged 58% off a record year and deliveries declined nearly...
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NewsDornier 328 crash video emerges as Indonesian investigators prepare report
Indonesia's National Transportation Safety Committee (NTSC) is working on the draft final report into the November crash on landing of a Dornier 328 turboprop...
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End in sight for biofuel trial programme
There are likely to be no further alternative fuel trials this year after the imminent flight test by Japan...
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First Q400 deferral as Horizon reaches deal with Bombardier
Alaska Air Group subsidiary Horizon Air has reached agreement with Bombardier on a new schedule for Q400 turboprop deliveries, representing the first such...
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No obvious culprit in Continental 737 excursion at Denver: NTSB
The US National Transportation Safety Board's investigation into the fiery Continental 737-500 accident at Denver, Colorado on 20 December reveals no obvious...
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NewsFrench army expands NH90 production order
The French army has signed for an additional 22 NH90 tactical transport helicopters, taking its total order for the type to 34 ...
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2008 shows airline safety has stopped improving
Global airline safety has stagnated, according to fatal accident figures from 2008. Following a decade of steady improvement, last year's results confirm...
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US authority approves Embraer Lineage 1000 business jet
Embraer has clinched US Federal Aviation Administration validation for the Lineage 1000 business...
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Wildlife encounter probably took down North Dakota pilots
An in-flight collision with at least one Canada Goose damaged the stabilator on a University of North Dakota twin-engined...
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VIDEO: How we produced Flight’s 100th birthday issue
Max Kingsley-Jones, Flight International’s Deputy Editor, talks about how he found iconic stories dating from 1909 using our fully searchable pdf archive.
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Airlines seek to stimulate demand with big fare sales
Airlines always hold fare sales in January but this year the sales, in some regions at least, appear to be more aggressive and longer lasting