All Safety News – Page 1273
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Sabena expands Schreiner franchise deal
Dutch regional airline Schreiner Airways is re-organising its franchise agreement with Sabena as it moves to expand its feeder operations under the new Sabena Connect brand. Schreiner operates four 50-seat Bombardier Dash 8-300s for Sabena on wet-lease and franchise services, but plans to add more aircraft and routes from ...
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SilkAir crash pilot's family releases financial details
The Indonesian Air Accident Investigation Commission (AAIC) has obtained documents on the financial background of the pilot of the SilkAir Boeing 737-300 that crashed on 19 December, 1997. The documents are expected to yield vital clues to the state of mind of Singaporean Capt Tsu Way Ming, who was ...
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ATR signs Indian contract in uncertain market
ATR has sealed a deal for five new 70-seat ATR72-500 turboprops with privately owned Indian scheduled airline Jet Airways. The airline says the aircraft will "form the nucleus of a modern regional aircraft fleet". The Jet Airways aircraft have been acquired under an operating lease through Aircraft International Renting, ...
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Eurocontrol legal power looms
Julian Moxon/PARIS Eurocontrol wants to introduce a tougher enforcement mechanism for new air traffic management (ATM) procedures and suggests using the European Union (EU) legislative system to give it the power it needs. The move results partly from confusion among member states over the introduction last year of ...
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Tanzania may pull out of Ugandan carrier
The Tanzanian Government may be preparing to pull out of Uganda-based carrier SA-Alliance Air in response to the latter's growing links with South African Airways (SAA) and ahead of the privatisation of flag carrier Air Tanzania (ATC). Transport minister Ernest Nyanda is to "review" Tanzania's future involvement with the ...
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Mergers
Shareholders in US Airways Express carrier CCAIR have approved its merger with Mesa Air, of which it will become a wholly-owned subsidiary. Heroux has increased its involvement in Bombardier's Canadair Regional Jet programme by acquiring fellow Canadian aerostructures companies Metro Machining and Les Industries CAT. Turboméca is to acquire the ...
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Low fuel prices mask grim year for European carriers
Europe's carriers made a consolidated profit of around $2 billion in 1998, the Association of European Airlines (AEA) has estimated, although it says that around half that sum "was a windfall from historically low fuel prices". The AEA's 27 members saw a 7.5% increase in passenger kilometres, but seat kilometre ...
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Memories are made of this
Alan Dron As the world approaches a century of powered, heavier-than-air flight, it's worth remembering that both the Paris salon and Flight International have been around for very nearly as long. Flight International (just Flight in decades gone past) has been there to record the astounding progress of ...
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Training centre bound for Malaysia
Malaysia Airlines (MAS) and FlightSafety Boeing Training International (FSBTI) are to create an aviation training joint venture in Kuala Lumpur, it was announced at the show yesterday. MAS executive vice-president Dato Bashir and FSBTI president Wake Smith signed a memorandum of understanding at the show which sets up the ...
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New telecoms advances for SITA
SITA, one of the world's leading providers of telecommunication systems to the air transport industry, is unveiling a number of new developments in the field of air-ground communications. The company has expanded its Aircraft Communications Addressing and Reporting System (ACARS) to provide VHF radio coverage in every country of ...
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Gulf Air celebrates with new and old
Gulf Air had plenty to celebrate yesterday as it took delivery of its first Airbus Industrie A330-200 at the show. It was Airbus's 30th birthday, an anniversary topped by Gulf Air which is celebrating 50 years of operations. Against a backdrop of the A330-200 and an Avro Anson, the ...
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NASA orders hybrid Delta for SIRTF launch
NASA has contracted Boeing to supply a hybrid Delta booster to launch its Space Infrared Telescope Facility (SIRTF). The booster is a Delta II with the nine large strap-on boosters from the Delta III. This booster is also available to commercial customers for launches of 2,030kg (4,400lb) payloads ...
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Extruded profiles set in style
High flying goes high fashion on the Menziken stand, where the group's aerospace division is exhibiting its aluminium extrusion profiles in style. Created by Swiss fashion designer Elsie Brandtwein, this eye-catching display makes a confident statement from Menziken which has been supplying the aircraft industry with extrusions and pressed ...
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FAA prepares for millennium countdown with confidence
Tamzin Hindmarch Mission impossible or mission accomplished? Just how confident is the US Federal Aviation Administration about beating the Millennium Bug? In this year's Aviation System Capital Investment Plan, prepared for the US Congress in January, the FAA committed itself to ensuring all its systems would be certified ...
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FAA hotline for counterfeit product reports
Tamzin Hindmarch The US Federal Aviation Administration has set up a free hotline for people wishing to report suspected unapproved aircraft parts. Such products may look the same, but if they do not comply with FAA standards they may not be of the same high quality or be ...
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No smoke problems with CSE Engineering
Steve Nichols Smoke in the cockpit is a pilot's nightmare and one of the biggest causes of air crashes according to official data. Recent incidents involving a Swissair Flight 111 and ValuJet Flight 592 prove just how difficult it is for pilots to see what they are doing ...
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Cargo airship fleet on the drawing boards
Tony Stephenson An old idea has been reborn and is set to transform the way that heavy freight - such as offshore drilling rigs and saw mills - is transported across the continents. Using principles first developed in the 1930s, German company Cargolifter is set to launch a ...
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USA to say sorry?
US Undersecretary of State Thomas Pickering visiting China to explain the bombing by a US pilot of the Chinese Embassy during NATO's air assault on Yugoslavia. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright said he had gone with an inter-agency team in order to explain what happened and to say ...
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Invisible threats from space
THE good news is that astronomers have identified an asteroid that could be on a collision course with Earth. The bad news is that they have lost it. The object, called 1998 OX4, was found last year by a team at the University of Arizona, who tracked it for ...
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IAE lets the market do the talking for new variant engine
Geoff Thomas International Aero Engines (IAE) has announced that it has begun to evaluate a new variant of its V2500 engine, which powers Airbus A320 family aircraft. The formal launch of the -A7 version could happen by the end of this year, says IAE president and chief executive ...