All Safety News – Page 1387
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Chinese 737 hull damaged before crash
The fuselage of the China Southern Airlines Boeing 737-300 which crashed at Shenzhen, China, on 8 May appears to have been severely damaged before the fatal landing. According to sources close to the investigation, the 737's nose landing gear suffered major damage from an initial heavy landing in ...
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Trent 700 shut-downs halt ETOPs flights
Cathay Pacific Airways has suffered a second inflight shutdown of a Rolls-Royce Trent 700 engine in fewer than seven days. As a result, clearance for extended-range twin-engine operations (ETOPS) has been suspended by the Hong Kong authorities. The latest incident, involving an Airbus Industrie A330-300, occurred on 12 ...
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Dassault
Dassault Falcon Jet has promoted six members of its flight-operations department at Teterboro Airport, South Hackensack, New Jersey. Jerry Tritt becomes chief pilot - technical, responsible for technical and regulatory matters. David DeAngelis has been promoted to chief pilot for operations. His remit includes safety, standardisation, the flight-operations manual and ...
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AASI begins revised Jetcruzer stretch
Advanced Aerodynamics and Structures (AASI) has begun work at its Long Beach factory in California on the stretched Jetcruzer 500P, a pressurised high-speed version of the original Jetcruzer 450. "It will be pressurised to 30,000ft [9,150m] with a good high-altitude engine," says AASI executive vice-president Gene Comfort. "We're ...
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UK AAIB investigates BA services with damaged 747-400
The UK Air Accident Investigation Branch (AAIB) has launched an investigation into an accident in which a British Airways Boeing 747-400 sustained significant damage in a "heavy landing", but continued to be flown on two revenue flights before the extent of the damage to the aircraft was realised. ...
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Crash breaks China's accident-free run
A fatal China Southern Airlines Boeing 737-300 crash has broken an accident-free run of nearly three years by China's rapidly growing air-transport industry. The aircraft (B-2925), from China Southern's Shenzhen branch, was on flight from Chongqing to Shenzhen International Airport near Hong Kong, on 8 May, when, because of stormy ...
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American restructures Boeing fleet deal after delays
American Airlines has restructured its massive fleet-replacement deal with Boeing, following the delay caused by the recent pilots' dispute and the ratification of the agreement on its regional-jet operations. The biggest impact of the nearly six-month delay has been on next-generation 737 deliveries, the first of which have ...
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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 ...