All Safety News – Page 1303
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767 instrument system mystery failure traced to battery faults
David Learmount/LONDON AN Almost total failure of a Boeing 767's electronic flight instrument system (EFIS) during a transatlantic flight has been attributed to battery installation faults, according to a US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) report. The 28 May, 1996, Martinair Holland 767-300ER flight from Amsterdam Schiphol to ...
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SAirGroup buys 49% of LTU and eyes full access to EU market
Andrew Doyle/DÜSSELDORF SAirGroup has finally completed its long-awaited acquisition of a 49.9% stake in German tour operator LTU as the latest step in its plans for a major expansion of its operations in the European leisure travel market. The deal comes as senior executives at the Swissair parent are expressing ...
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Winnipeg consortium launches Canada's first scheduled cargo operation
Canada's first scheduled widebody cargo flights are being launched by Winnport Logistics, a consortium of 43 transportation companies. The Winnipeg, Manitoba-based consortium has leased a Boeing 747 freighter from Evergreen International Airlines, and will operate three flights a week between Winnipeg and the Chinese cities of Nanjing and Shenzhen. ...
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BA realigns fleet after pre-tax profits fall
British Airways is reacting to disappointing first half results and an impending economic downturn by realigning its fleet and route network. Pre-tax profits for the airline dropped 10.5% to £385 million ($639 million) for the first six months to 30 September as a downturn in the world economy and ...
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Common theme
Graham Warwick WASHINGTON DC Can airlines agree to buy a standard aircraft, in the hope of reducing costs, or will each continue to demand hundreds of custom changes that set its aircraft apart from any other carrier's? That is the question facing an airline task force which is to ...
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Airbus may ditch A3XX thrust reversers to slow down costs
Andrew Doyle/LONDON Airbus Industrie is discussing with airlines a plan to remove the thrust reversers from its A3XX ultra-high capacity airliner design as part of efforts to further reduce the aircraft's direct operating costs. Airlines have generally reacted favourably towards the idea of dropping the system from the outboard engines ...
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717 initial tests reveal unexpected benefits
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES Early results from the Boeing 717-200 flight test effort are indicating "nominal or better" drag and specific fuel consumption (sfc) performance, leading to expectations that the baseline range and payload may be increased, says the company. The build-up of 717 test hours and sorties is ...
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UK airlines renew call for air rage research and funding
David Learmount/LONDON Efforts to undertake research into the causes of air rage attacks on cabin crew are being held up by a reluctance to fund the work, it has emerged at a Passenger Behaviour seminar held at Heathrow Airport, London, on 29 October. The UK's Cranfield University has ...
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Airports
-The long-awaited start of construction of the Guangzhou New Airport in China has moved closer with the award of the initial design contract for the passenger terminal to Parsons Greiner of the USA. The deal, worth about $10 million, represents one of the first significant contracts to be awarded since ...
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First Tu-204s delivered to Air Cairo
New Egyptian carrier Air Cairo became the first airline to take delivery of the RB211-535E4-powered Tupolev Tu-204-120 on 2 November. Two aircraft were delivered to Cairo - one passenger model and one freighter - at the start of a seven-year lease. They are the first new generation Russian aircraft ...
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China Airlines shares will go on the market
Taiwan's state-controlled China Aviation Development Foundation (CADF) has approved the proposed sale of half of its 71% majority stake in China Airlines (CAL) to yet to be identified local or foreign investors. CADF plans to reduce its holding in CAL to 35.5%, as part of a move to revamp ...
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Macedonia in control
Former Yugoslav Republic Macedonia became Eurocontrol's 28th member state on 1 November. It has taken part in projects such as the European Air Traffic Control Harmonisation and Integration Programme and Central Flow Management Unit through its membership of the European Civil Aviation Conference since July 1997. Source: Flight International
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Raisbeck installs Stage 3 mixer for 727 tests
Raisbeck Commercial Air Group has begun flight tests of a Boeing 727-200 fitted with newly developed engine tailpipe forced mixers. The tests are aimed at achieving certification of the company's heavy gross weight (HGW) Stage 3 system by March 1999. The US company says the tests are attracting "serious ...
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Routes
-Dutch carrier Transavia is to become the first non-Greek airline to operate scheduled domestic services between Greek territories when, from 2 November this year to 27 March 1999, it sets up flights between Rhodes and Heraklion, Crete. -Martinair Cargo will increase both routes and capacity in the Latin American region ...
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Financial troubles force Transaero to cut back
Paul Duffy/MOSCOW Transaero, Russia 's third largest carrier, has scaled back its operations by about 30%, with further reductions expected to follow in the face of continuing financial problems at the airline and the worsening domestic economy. Among the first services to be dropped are flights on the Moscow-Riga-London ...
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Universal targets corporate jet market with flightdeck family
Graham Warwick/WASHINGTON DC Universal Avionics has launched a bid to become a major supplier of flightdeck equipment for corporate and commercial aircraft with the introduction of its System-1 product line. Building on its UNS-1 flight management system (FMS), Universal's System-1 includes flat panel displays, a terrain awareness and warning system ...
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Calm down
A new and unsettling problem for the airlines - dubbed "air rage" by the media - has been emerging over the last few years. The problem is unsettling because it appears to be global and growing rapidly, and although the airlines can describe it, they cannot define it. This intractable ...
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Russian Topol flops during launch
A Topol-M (RS-12M2) intercontinental ballistic missile, fired from the Plesetsk cosmodrome in northern Russia, self-destructed during the system's fifth test on 22 October, following first stage engine burn-out. The Strategic Rocket Forces denies that the missile's destruction was caused by a system failure, claiming that the incident was a ...
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Muscular Malibu
Dave Higdon/WITCHITA In developing the Meridian, a turboprop derivative of its Malibu high-performance piston single, New Piper Aircraft is counting on the fact that customers will find the transition to turbine power both attractive and manageable. To test this premise, Flight International evaluated the Malibu turboprop conversion developed by JetProp ...
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Gathering clouds threaten European open skies deals
Max Kingsley-Jones/LONDON Julian Moxon/PARIS Any prospects of an immediate UK-US open skies agreement have disappeared, following the confirmation by British Airways that it is postponing its plans for a full-blown strategic alliance with American Airlines. Meanwhile, France is pressing ahead with implementing its bilateral aviation agreement with the ...