All Safety News – Page 1277
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Delta/United alliance dies
Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC The refusal of Delta Air Lines directors to give its pilots a voting seat on the board have scuttled plans for a wide ranging alliance with United Airlines. The strategic alliance proposal included a code-share which had to be approved by pilots' groups represented by the ...
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Escalating European delays reach record level
The European Airlines Association (AEA) has declared 1998 a "black year" for delays, with the figures for June reaching similar levels to those for the same month in 1989, the worst on record. Brussels, Belgium-based Eurocontrol says it has "no dispute" with the AEA statistics, which show that 29.1% ...
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New Italian airlines gear up for 1999 operations
Marco Messalla/ROME Two new Italian airlines are planning to start operations early next year, reflecting the continuing liberalisation of the country's internal market. Gandalf Airlines is considering purchasing either the Fairchild Dornier 328JET or Embraer ERJ-145 and will announce its decision on an initial purchase of two aircraft ...
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Qatar steps up expansion with plans for new long-haul aircraft
MaxKingsley-Jones/LONDON Qatar Airways is accelerating its fleet expansion, with discussions for the lease of up to six Airbus A330s as part of a plan to boost long-haul operations. The Doha-based airline recently concluded a deal to bolster its short-haul fleet with A320s, placing an order for up to 11 ...
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Routes
-Continental Airlines and British Midland have signed a code-sharing agreement for routes between and Aberdeen, Edinburgh and Glasgow in Scotland and New York Newark, via Manchester. -Lufthansa franchise partner Augsburg Airways will launch services from Hof and Bayreuth to Frankfurt, operating Bombardier de Havilland Dash 8 turboprops in Team Lufthansa ...
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Investigation into SilkAir crash narrows
The Indonesian-led investigation into the December 1997 crash of a SilkAir Boeing 737-300 expects to produce a preliminary report by October, with the line of inquiries narrowed down to possible pilot suicide, or mechanical failure in the area of the vertical or horizontal stabiliser. Indonesian Aircraft Accident Investigation Commission ...
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Strikes ground North American airlines
Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC Brian Dunn/MONTREAL The first week of strikes by pilots at Northwest Airlines and Air Canada have crippled the two carriers' operations. Estimates put the revenue losses in the two unconnected labour disputes at over $150 million by 5 September. Northwest was the first to be ...
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Tata consigns plans for new Indian carrier to scrapheap
The Tata Group has finally thrown in the towel and abandoned plans to launch a privately owned domestic Indian airline in the face of more than three and half years of government procrastination, as well as repeated changes to its aviation policy. Tata dropped plans to launch the new ...
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Cubana Tu-154 overrun kills 77
At least 68 people on board a Cubana Tupolev Tu-154M, and nine on the ground, were killed on 29 August when the crew appears to have made a late take-off abort and the aircraft overran the Quito, Ecuador, runway onto a football field. The civil aviation authorities have said that ...
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Results dampen Air New Zealand and Ansett prospects
Challenging regional market conditions are expected to continue dampening the prospects of Air New Zealand (ANZ) and its 50%-owned partner Ansett Australia. The tougher conditions were already evident in the results for the 12 months ending 30 June. ANZ relied on marginal improvements to domestic performance to produce a ...
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Asian crisis bites hard into Chinese airlines
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE Asian economic woes have finally begun to catch up with the Chinese air transport industry, with the country's two largest carriers China Southern Airlines and China Eastern Airlines sliding into the red in the first half of 1998 as the result of growing overcapacity and deteriorating yields. ...
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Single minded
Kate Sarsfield/LONDON The economic shackles are steadily being removed from the single-engined turboprop market as international aviation authorities reverse their longstanding prohibition on single-engined instrument flight rules (IFR) operations for commercial flights. The impressive safety record of Pratt &Whitney Canada PT6 turbine-powered aircraft has contributed a great deal to the ...
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MD-11 crashes after smoke fills cockpit
David Learmount/LONDON The crew of Swissair's Boeing MD-11 flight SR111 made a "Pan" emergency call to Canada's Moncton air traffic control centre (ATCC), reporting smoke in the cockpit. Sixteen minutes later the aircraft crashed into the sea, killing all 215 passengers and 14 crew on board, according to a ...
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Airbus plans A300/A310 update while replacement is sought
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE Airbus Industrie has begun making presentations to airlines operating the A300/A310 on a range of proposed performance improvements and configuration changes in an effort to modernise and extend the family's market life until a replacement can be developed. The European consortium has told airlines that, given ...
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BMW R-R focuses on core as BR715 is approved
Andrzej Jeziorski/MUNICH BMWRolls-Royce will begin testing a complete Engine 3E core, incorporating the company's new experimental staged combustion chamber, early next year. The core could eventually update its BR715 engine, certificated in late August. The Engine 3E ("Environment, Efficiency, Economy") programme involves BMW R-R and rival German engine manufacturer MTU ...
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Aerostar shows off upgraded MiG-21bis
Romanian aerospace company Aerostar is taking the wraps off an upgraded Mikoyan MiG-21bis at the show. The company has been working privately on the aircraft in response to interest from potential customers. The upgrade follows on from a $300 million programme being undertaken by Aerostar with Elbit of Israel ...
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TT&S reveals clutch of simulator orders
Thomson Training & Simulation (TT&S) has revealed a series of contracts to supply full flight simulators to Alaska Airlines and Air France and manufacturer Airbus Industrie. For Alaska Airlines, the French company will produce its first Boeing 737-700/900 simulator as part of a contract covering a range of integrated ...
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TCAS for Qantas
Qantas and National Jet System have selected the Rockwell Collins Traffic Alert and Collision Avoidance system (TCAS 2) for their regional aircraft fleets. Qantas affiliate carriers Sunstate Airlines, Southern Australia Airlines and Eastern Australian Airlines will fit the TDR-94D mode S system to their four Shorts SD3-60s and 15 Bombardier ...
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Airbag system holds hope for crash survival
They are commonplace in many cars, but airbags might soon be making the transition from protecting motorists to safeguarding airline passengers. US seatbelt manufacturer AmSafe is using Farnborough to promote its new airbag restraint system, which it says could dramatically reduce the number of lives lost in certain types ...
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Swissair flight recorder blank for last six minutes
The flight data recorder (FDR) from the Swissair Boeing MD-11 which crashed off Nova Scotia last week carries only illegible information below 10,000ft (3,000m), specialists from the Canadian Transportation Safety Board have revealed. Experts had hoped that the FDR, which was recovered on Sunday, would give some clue why ...