All Safety News – Page 1286
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Double standards
Any remaining doubts that action on airline safety is needed in South Asia and Asia-Pacific have been dissolved by the accidents that occurred in the first six months of 1998. After the 2 February Cebu Pacific Air fatal accident, the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) broke its characteristic neutral silence ...
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Indonesia is hit the hardest as traffic plunges in Asia-Pacific
Kevin O'Toole/LONDON Passenger numbers at Asia-Pacific airports tumbled by nearly 10% in March, with individual gateways in the region down by as much as half. The Asian downturn also appears to be affecting international traffic through US West Coast gateways. Worst hit in the region was Indonesia, with ...
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Teething troubles hit new airports
Harassed officials at Kuala Lumpur's troubled new Sepang Airport have breathed a sigh of relief as attention has turned to the major disruptions in passenger and cargo traffic being experienced at the newly opened Hong Kong International Airport. The situation in Hong Kong rapidly deteriorated within hours of the ...
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Fairchild Dornier challenges Embraer on interest benefits
Andrzej Jeziorski/MUNICH Fairchild Dornier has lodged a complaint with the European Commission against the Brazilian Government's Proex export support scheme, which the US/German company says gives rival regional aircraft manufacturer Embraer an unfair advantage. Meanwhile, Fairchild Dornier has landed a deal to supply US airline Midwest Express with up to ...
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GE faces new big-jet problems following fires
General Electric is investigating engine fires on CF6 and CFM International CFM56-7 engines that occurred within days of each other in the USA. It is also probing the cause of an inflight shutdown of a GE90 in mid-Atlantic. An American Airlines Airbus Industrie A300-600R suffered a fire in its ...
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Lufthansa Cargo slams Boeing for closing down MD-11 production
Lufthansa Cargo has criticised Boeing's decision to cease production of the MD-11. Speaking during the ceremony to hand over the carrier's first two tri-jet freighters at Frankfurt early this month, Lufthansa Cargo chairman Wilhelm Althen described the production shutdown decision as "very regrettable". He described the arrival of ...
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Cathay flight breaks record and leads to series of polar trials
Polar flight trials conducted by four carriers between North America and Asia are scheduled to begin on 15 July following a record-breaking inaugural flight, dubbed Polar One, by Cathay Pacific Airways, non-stop from New York to Hong Kong. The Federal Aviation Authority of Russia has given permission for a ...
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Sextant wins Airbus displays contract
Airbus Industrie has awarded Sextant Avionique a contract to be sole supplier of flat-panel liquid crystal displays (LCD) for the new A340-500/600 and for all the production fly-by-wire Airbus types from mid-2000. The move comes in the face of requests from airlines to be allowed a choice of supplier, for ...
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Taiwan's U-Land links up with Air Philippines
Brent Hannon/TAIPEI Taiwan's U-Land Airlines has wet-leased the first two of three Boeing MD-82s to Air Philippines as the first step towards acquiring a 35% stake in the Philippine domestic carrier. Talks between the two airlines have been speeded up because of the Philippine Airlines (PAL) strike. Since ...
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P&W warns partners on future of V2500 engine programme
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE Pratt & Whitney has warned its International Aero Engine (IAE) partners that it will pursue development of the PW6000 and geared PW8000 turbofan family unless agreement can be reached on the future direction of the collaborative V2500 programme. "Pratt can't survive without participating in the largest ...
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Boom continues for Airbus and Boeing
A surge of narrowbody business kept the order boom going for Airbus and Boeing over the first half of 1998, although both will be watching for signs of a slowdown in the second half, when the full impact of the Asian recession is likely to be felt. The two ...
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Dragonair forges independence
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE Dragonair has taken a further step towards independence from Cathay Pacific Airways with the purchase of an Airbus A320 full flight simulator from CAE Electronics. The Hong Kong-based airline, which has also taken an option with CAE for an Airbus A330 simulator, will open its own ...
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SimuFlite CFIT course
SimuFlite Training has introduced an optional course on controlled flight into terrain (CFIT) to review CFIT accidents and demonstrate the use of the US Flight Safety Foundation's recommended checklist. Source: Flight International
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Western Michigan University jets ahead with plans to acquire 737-400 simulator
Western Michigan University plans to acquire a Boeing 737-400 flight simulator and to offer a jet orientation course as part of its ab initio airline pilot training programme. Based at Battle Creek, Michigan, the University's International Pilot Training Center is training cadets for Aer Lingus and British Airways. Eight ...
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Iberia TCAS 2000
Iberia has selected Honeywell's TCAS 2000 traffic alert and collision avoidance system for around 150 aircraft. Source: Flight International
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Culture shock
Paul Phelan/CAIRNS Following a relatively minor accident, Ansett Australia recently set about overhauling the way the whole company looks at its safety task. This was not done in isolation - there is a growing understanding, manifested at recent air safety forums, that some traditional industry practices, and even early ...
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Degrees of flying skills
David Learmount/LONDON Airline accidents are occurring because many pilots do not understand their aircraft, according to Germany's Darmstadt University. The institution suggests that the course for an air transport pilot's licence (ATPL) should involve degree level studies to gain the depth of understanding needed for modern airline flying. The ...
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Boeing talks to Japanese in search for 717 wing back-up
Boeing is talking to Japanese manufacturers about involvement in the 717 programme as it studies options for increasing production of the 100-seater beyond 2000. The company says the talks, involving Fuji, Kawasaki and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, are to find a second subcontractor for wing manufacture. It denies reports that ...
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Eurocontrol free flight show PHAREs favourably
Julian Moxon/PARIS A key "free flight" element of Eurocontrol's ATM2000 air traffic management programme has been demonstrated. The exercise was part of the Brussels-based agency's programme for harmonised air traffic management research (PHARE), which is designed to enable aircraft to fly preferred flight paths in the proposed future ...
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Avensa chooses to quieten 727s with BFGoodrich upgrade
Avensa Airlines of Venezuela has chosen to re-engine two of its fleet of five Boeing 727-200Advs with the "Super 27" upgrade package offered by BFGoodrich to meet US Stage 3 noise regulations. The airline has taken options covering the remaining three aircraft. The conversion will involve replacing the 727's ...