All Safety News – Page 1351
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TAP chooses Collins MMR for Airbuses
TAP-Air Portugal has selected the Collins GLU-920 multi-mode receiver (MMR)to equip its recently ordered fleet of 16 Airbus A319s and six A320s. The MMR is a single unit designed to ease precision approaches using the instrument-and microwave-landing-systems, and the global-positioning system. The 22 aircraft, deliveries of which start ...
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The role of the flight engineer
Sir -The advantages perceived of a flight engineer's potential input to a new-generation automated flightdeck gives me concern. The concept of these aircraft was to exclude the flight engineer. The checklist philosophy (be it the engine-indication and crew-alerting system or electronic centralised aircraft-monitor) generated is the backbone of ...
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Flying the Five
The large Honeywell primary flight displays show numerous perameters without clutter. The Gulfstream V wing is larger and holds more fuel than its predecessor on the GIV At a glance, the Gulfstream V looks much like its predecessor, the GIV, but closer investigation reveals it to ...
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New initiative revives hopes for central European ATC unity
Hopes for the creation of a common central European upper-airspace air-traffic-management centre have been revived with a new initiative aimed at producing a signature from the eight involved nations on 27 June. The Central European Air Traffic Services (CEATS) project, which includes Austria, Bosnia, Croatia, the Czech Republic, ...
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Regional Airlines prepares to accept EMB-145 after delays
The Embraer EMB-145 regional jet was expected to gain European Joint Aviation Authorities (JAA)certification on 12 May, around six months later than originally planned, clearing the way for European launch customer Regional Airlines to put the type into service in early June. The delay was caused by JAA ...
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India/China prepare to sign air agreement
India and China are set to sign a new air-services agreement (ASA), paving the way for the first direct flights by their national airlines between the two countries. The agreement is expected to be signed on 21 May during a visit to Chinese capital Beijing by an Indian ...
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Japan nears liberalisation
Japan's transport ministry is examining ways to liberalise regulated domestic air fares, following the recent decision to scrap restrictions on the number of carriers vying for a single route. A team of ministry advisers is looking at scrapping supply-and-demand adjustments to domestic air fares and replacing the system ...
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ModiLuft attempts to relaunch
ModiLuft is preparing to relaunch airline operations, despite the fact that it is yet to resolve issues from its previous, abortive attempt to operate a domestic network in India. The Delhi-based carrier was set up in 1993 by Satish Kumar Modi, with assistance from Lufthansa, operating four Boeing ...
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JT8D failures studied
The US National Transportation Safety Board is investigating an uncontained failure of a Pratt & Whitney JT8D engine which occurred to a Northwest Airlines McDonnell Douglas DC-9 during take-off from Memphis on 24 April. The take-off was aborted safely. It is the latest of a series of incidents involving the ...
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Trent 700 suffers another in-flight shutdown
Rolls-Royce has again suffered an in-flight shutdown of a Trent 700 turbofan engine fitted to an Airbus Industrie A330 twinjet - the third such occurrence in less than six months. In the latest incident, on 6 May, the No 2 engine on a Cathay Pacific Airways A330 ran ...
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Passenger-violence measures upgraded
Rising incidences of airline passenger violence in the USA have resulted in the US Department of Transportation (DoT) expanding its experimental "interference with crew member programme". Special arrangements in force at Honolulu and Los Angeles have been extended to New York's Kennedy, LaGuardia and Newark airports. The programme ...
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US Airways cuts out loss-making routes
US AIRWAYS is eliminating unprofitable routes and grounding 22 aircraft in what could be the first step towards shrinking the nation's sixth-largest airline to a regional carrier. Stephen Wolf, the airline's chairman, has also warned that unless he has concessions from labour unions before 30 September, he will ...
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China Eastern beats its 1996 profits forecast
China Eastern Airlines managed to post better-than-forecast profits for 1996, providing some good news in the wake of its February listing on the Hong Kong and New York stock exchanges. In its prospectus for the flotation (the first by a Chinese carrier), China Eastern had warned that declining ...
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Lufthansa plans cargo alliance
Lufthansa Cargo is to follow its parent airline into a global alliance as part of the plan to return the now independent freight business to profit. The partnership could be set up this year, and will be similar to the forthcoming passenger alliance of Air Canada, Lufthansa, SAS, ...
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Malev boosts share sale
The Hungarian Government is to sell off another 39%of Malev as the privatisation of the flag carrier goes into its second phase. Alitalia, which acquired 30%of Malev in the initial privatisation four years ago, may also have to sell its stake. The sale to Alitalia, and of another ...
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MD 600N ticket close
The delayed US certification of the McDonnell Douglas Helicopter Systems (MDHS) MD600N is expected early in May. MDHS has raised the rotor minimum speed and moved the tail-thruster exit to on top of the tailboom to eliminate blade strikes on the boom caused by rotor droop during control reversals at ...
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Regional jets find a home
LABOUR TURMOIL and strike threats spawned by the introduction of new-generation "regional jets" have diverted attention away from an evolution that is taking place in both the airline and aircraft manufacturing industries. This is the opinion of aircraft manufacturers, airline-industry pundits and air-carrier officials who say that the ...
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Historic manufacturers return
Two famous names from German aviation history staged a comeback at the Aero '97 show, with the presentation of new prototypes from Zeppelin and Junkers. The general-aviation show, in Friedrichshafen, Germany, from 23-27 April, featured the public debut of the Zeppelin New Technology (NT) airship, the LZ N07. ...
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Operators alerted on Cessna-twin fire risk
OPERATORS OF CESSNA turbocharged piston-twins have been urged to inspect the exhaust systems, while the US Federal Aviation Administration considers action to prevent leaks which could cause in-flight fires. The Cessna Pilots Association (CPA) has advised operators of 300- and 400-series turbocharged twins to inspect the exhaust systems ...
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FAA re-issues Teledyne crankshaft AD
A PROPOSED airworthiness directive (AD) requiring replacement of the crankshafts in some 10,000 Teledyne Continental 360-and 520-series piston engines has resurfaced, with the US Federal Aviation Administration citing an abnormally high failure rate. The original July 1993 notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) was strenuously opposed by the US ...