All Safety News – Page 1370
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Studying off-design performance
Sir - As is evident from the article "DC-8 training faulted" (Flight International, 23-29 July, P15), it took an accident [that of an Airborne Express McDonnell Douglas DC-8 in December 1996 in Virginia] to get the aviation community to notice an area about which simulator engineers have been crying for ...
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Cessna unveils new training programme
CESSNA HAS UNVEILED a computer-based instruction (CBI) programme to train pilots in fewer hours at its Cessna Pilot Centers (CPCs). The initial private-pilot course is to be introduced by US-based CPCs in the second quarter of 1998. Beginning in 1999, courses will be developed for other ratings and for international ...
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Racing against time
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES Like a chill wind, news of the Korean Air Boeing 747 accident at Guam swept through the safety meeting in Vancouver, rattling nerves and unsettling delegates. Less than 24h earlier, almost at the exact time of the crash, attendees at the first Technology ...
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A330-200 flight-testing programme takes off
Max Kingsley-Jones/TOULOUSE Airbus Industrie's latest widebody, the long-range A330-200, had a successful maiden flight on 13 August, with the consortium's chief test pilot, William Wainwright, at the controls. The initial General Electric CF6-80E1A4-powered version is scheduled to be certificated in March 1998, and to enter service ...
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Trans-Tasman partners study operations link for efficiency
Paul Phelan/CAIRNS Air New Zealand and Australia's Ansett Airlines are studying innovative ways of making flight operations and aircrew training more efficient, and are looking to include Singapore Airlines in some of the initiatives, taking advantage of the three-way alliance they announced in July. Under the ...
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Star offers leading role to Cathay/SIA
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE The recently established Star Alliance is set to further expand in Asia, with both Cathay Pacific Airways and Singapore Airlines (SIA) now holding separate discussions to join the global partnership. According to industry sources, talks between Star and the two Asian airlines have been ...
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World's first civil GPS satellite landing system obtains FAA approval
The Honeywell/Pelorus SLS-2000differential global-positioning-system (GPS) satellite landing system now has US Federal Aviation Administration Special Category 1 (SCAT-1) approval. The "fail-operational" SLS installation comprises three GPS "pseudolyte" Remote Satellite Measurement Units (RSMU) up to 100m from an SLS ground reference station. The RSMUs supply the station with a ...
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FedEx MD-11 crash still mystifies NTSB
The reason for the crash of the Federal Express Boeing MD-11 freighter which overturned and burst into flames after landing at Newark airport, New Jersey, USA on 31 July is still puzzling National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) investigators, partly because the last 5s of flight data recorder (FDR) information has ...
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Formosa has third major 228 accident
Formosa Airlines has suffered its third fatal Dornier 228 accident in five years, with the loss of one of the Taiwanese regional airline's 19-seat 228-200s on approach to the Taiwanese island of Matsu. The aircraft hit high ground during a visual approach in poor-weather, killing all 16 passengers and crew. ...
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Paris congestion sees calls for more capacity
Julian Moxon/PARIS Continued air traffic congestion in France has led to renewed calls for more capacity at Paris' two main airports. But airlines which file more than one flightplan in an attempt to obtain the air traffic control (ATC) take-off slot they want are under criticism for causing ...
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Kitty Hawk/Kalitta companies take decision to merge
Kitty Hawk, the Dallas-based charter passenger and cargo air carrier, has agreed to merge with the Ypsilanti, Michigan-based Kalitta Companies, which includes American International Airways (AIA), American International Cargo, American International Freight, Flight One Logistics, Kalitta Flying Services and OK Turbines. In a related transaction, Kitty Hawk will ...
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Guam crash MSAA alert
Minimum-safe-altitude-alert (MSAA) systems on some 200 airport radars across the USA are undergoing checks for a possible software fault, the US Federal Aviation Administration has confirmed. This follows the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) discovery that an MSAA system in Guam which might have prevented the 6 August Korean Air ...
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Olympic near the edge
During take-off from Iraklion, Crete, on 12 August, an Olympic Airways Boeing 737-200Adv shed the tyre tread from two of its main wheels and the pilot elected to abort the take-off run. The aircraft, carrying 110 passengers, came to rest 200m from the runway end, just beyond which there is ...
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New Zealand officials examine delayed crash warning-
Paul Phelan/Cairns New Zealand's Transport Accident Commission is probing whether paint on the radar-altimeter antennas may have degraded the performance of the ground-proximity warning system (GPWS) on an Ansett New Zealand Bombardier de Havilland Dash 8, which crashed at Palmerston North, New Zealand, in June 1995, with the ...
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-and get tough on maintenance deficiencies
In its toughest punitive move to date, New Zealand's Civil Aviation Authority is to ground the small Palmerston North-based operator United Aviation because of "serious maintenance deÌciencies" discovered during audits. The airline, which ßies a small ßeet of piston twins, suffered a fatal accident with one of its ...
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Olympic 727 written off during landing in storm
An Olympic Airways Boeing 727-200Adv's landing gear was ripped off and its left wing destroyed when the pilot steered it off the runway while landing at Thessaloniki, northern Greece, airport authorities have confirmed. The pilot appears to have been attempting to avoid overrunning into the sea. On 12 ...
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Reflected glory
Peter Henley/SEATTLE The dilemma which Boeing faced when launching its Next Generation 737 was whether to update the proven model or start afresh. The big 737 operators wanted an updated 737 for fleet commonality, but they demanded a version which would fly faster, higher and more economically. They ...
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Industry applauds IFR rule
Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC US AVIATION groups have commended the US Federal Aviation Administration for finalising the single-engine instrument flight rule (SEIFR), permitting revenue passenger operations in single piston- and turbine-engine aircraft. Regulators had previously feared that engine failures on single-engined aircraft flying in weather on instruments ...
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FedEx approaches IAI over all-cargo turboprop requirement
Ari Egozi/TEL AVIV Israel Aircraft Industries (IAI) has been approached by FedEx with a proposal for it to develop a turboprop-powered all-cargo aircraft to replace its fleet of 160 Boeing 727 freighters. The proposed aircraft would be larger than the Ayres Loadmaster now under development for ...
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Flight deck symposium
The first airlines to be involved in the experimental phase of the International Air Transport Association's (IATA) "flight safety buddy" system could be paired-up within a year says IATA director general, Pierre Jeanniot. The "buddy" concept is a major plank of IATA's seven-point safety strategy to halve the ...