All Safety News – Page 1402
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Airbus fits switch guards after A340 hydraulic incident
Following an incident involving a Singapore Airlines (SIA) Airbus Industrie A340 over Australia, the aircraft manufacturer says that it is to put switch-guards over engine hydraulic-valve controls in the A340 cockpit. Sudden pitch changes caused by an incorrect switch selection by the crew injured 11 people, according to ...
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Alitalia pulls plug on Fokker 70s
Alitalia is attempting to return its five leased Fokker 70s to the bankrupt Fokker operation, after failing in a bid to re-lease them to low-cost Italian regional carrier Alpi Eagles. The two airlines concluded a codeshare deal late in 1996 which included the transfer of the Fokker 70s. ...
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Two African regionals suffer fatal crashes
An Air Senegal British Aerospace 748 Mk2A crashed just after take-off from Tambacounda, Senegal on 1 February, killing three crew and 20 passengers aboard. The flight-data recorder and cockpit-voice recorder have been recovered, and representatives of the manufacturer and the type certificating authority, the UK Civil Aviation Authority, ...
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Cameras provide more information
Sir - I would like to clarify some statements attributed to me in the article "Caught on camera" (Flight International, 1-7 January, P35). DM Aerospace is concentrating on the use of internal and external video cameras as airliner-safety enhancements. We have developed an aircraft video flight recorder in ...
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Why no simulators for ground staff?
Sir - I believe that there should be some form of simulator or fixed-base trainer instruction and testing of ground engineers who perform daily engine power runs in expensive aircraft. Why do we place such emphasis on training pilots and flight engineers and yet ignore the needs of ...
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Transponders for CIS
Spurred by the mid-air collision between a Saudi Arabian Boeing 747-100 and a Kazakh Ilyushin Il-76 in November 1996 near New Delhi, India, the US Federal Aviation Administration is investigating the feasibility of employing used transponders to reduce the risk of collision. The shelved transponders were those replaced by traffic-alert ...
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Yak-40 crash-lands
The pilot of a Krasnoyarsk Airlines Yakovlev Yak-40 successfully force-landed his aircraft in a Siberian field 28km (15nm) from his destination on 29 January. There was no injury to the four crew and 20 passengers on board as the aircraft landed in white-out conditions with 400m (1,300ft) visibility in snow. ...
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Lord NVX system quietens DC-9/MD-80 cabin
LORDHASRECEIVED US certification for its NVX active noise-and-vibration control system on the McDonnell Douglas DC-9 and MD-80. The company says that its system is the first to be approved for use on large commercial aircraft, and "...is being considered for several DC-9/MD-80 installation programmes." Approval follows installation of the NVX ...
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Masters of aviation
Pilots' careers finish relatively early, leaving them with no credit for accumulated knowledge and experience beyond that learned during the period of their licences. A postgraduate level of education in the aviation industry would be attractive to some motivated licence-holders who want future employment, early positions as management pilots, or ...
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UK and Netherlands eye North Sea ATC
The UK and Netherlands civil-aviation authorities are considering following Norway's lead in using satellite-based surveillance and communications to bring positive air-traffic control (ATC) to North Sea helicopter operations. Much of the region is outside radar or VHF communications range and there is serious concern among oil companies and ...
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Airbus and Boeing wait for British Midland decision
British Midland (BM) is close to placing a substantial order for aircraft in the 180-seat class, which will be phased in over the next five years to replace part of its Boeing 737 fleet. The expanding UK airline has hinted for some time that it was considering larger ...
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Schweizer RU-38A flight tests to resume in May
Flight-testing of the Schweizer Aircraft RU-38A Twin Condor is set to resume in May now that the US Coast Guard (USCG) has renegotiated its $5.3 million contract with the US aircraft maker. The twin-engine surveillance aircraft project was put in limbo for nearly a year when one of ...
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Flexible flying
For aspiring pilots who mortgage their careers until middle-age to earn a full airline pilot's licence, airline sponsorship is the ultimate dream. Yet, would-be pilots know that such offers are few, and the schemes, reacting to market behaviour, have been sporadic. When sponsors do announce a course, many are called, ...
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New evidence reveals fire on doomed Challenger's booster
New evidence that part of the right-hand solid- rocket booster (SRB) of the Space Shuttle STS 51L/Challenger was breached and caught fire at lift-off on 28 January, 1986, has been revealed by controversial aerospace engineer Ali AbuTaha. Seven crew were lost when the Shuttle broke apart at T+73s, in what ...
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Secondary implications
Sir - You wrote in the Airline Safety Review for 1996 (Flight International, 15-21 January, P31) that "-the year provided its ironies" - none more so, I feel, than the contribution of secondary radar to the Lima Boeing 757 fatal accident. I understand that, following a request for position and ...
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US airline safety ratings to hit Internet
Safety data on US air carriers are to be put on the Internet by the Federal Aviation Administration, in a bid to make them more accessible to the travelling public. The agency says it will not, however, rank airlines according to their accident records, although information on accidents and some ...
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VASP eyes up Argentinas
Acquisitive Brazilian airline VASP is understood to have made an approach to take a controlling stake in Aerolineas Argentinas. Iberia, which still has an interest in the Argentinian carrier, and which would still need to give its approval for any deal, says that no concrete offer for the airline has ...
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Boeing expected to agree late change to new 737 flightdeck
Boeing is close to agreeing to airline requests that it replace electro-mechanical standby instruments on the 737-600/ 700/800 flightdeck, with a single, solid-state, liquid-crystal-display (LCD) unit. A final decision is expected when the manufacturer can ascertain whether enough of the units can be supplied to meet planned next-generation ...
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European consortium presents noise findings
A recently completed European research project has enabled engineers to understand the way in which so-called "buzz-saw" noise is generated and propagates along the nacelle of a jet engine, according to Rolls-Royce, one of the participants in the "Fanpac" research programme. Buzz-saw noise is caused by shock waves ...
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British Midland lobbies EC for European slots at Heathrow
British Midland (BM) has entered the fray over the British Airways/American Airlines alliance, arguing that slots should be made available for its European feeder services rather than exclusively for new transatlantic operations. Chairman Sir Michael Bishop says that the move follows the recent intervention of European competition commissioner ...