All Safety News – Page 1402
-
News
Boeing prepares to offer 747-500/600MD
Guy Norris/SEATTLE BOEING IS to seek board authority to offer the "Major Derivative" (MD) 747-500/600 in July, but may be forced to extend the development timescale by more than a year to incorporate more advanced technology, at the insistence of its airline advisory group. Boeing ...
-
News
ValuJet fallout hits FAA
Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC THE FALL-OUT from the 11 May crash of ValuJet Flight 592 in the Florida Everglades has spread across the USA, from Long Beach, California, to the inner circle of the US Federal Aviation Administration. The unprecedented commercial-airline safety probe and subsequent grounding ...
-
News
EU to start talks with USA
Kevin O'Toole/LONDON EUROPE'S TRANSPORT Commissioner Neil Kinnock has won a mandate to start negotiations with the USA, which are expected to lead to a transatlantic open-skies pact, possibly within two years. The mandate was agreed by European Union (EU) transport ministers on 17 June, with ...
-
News
Investigators query Garuda DC-10 abort
INVESTIGATORS of the Garuda Indonesia Airlines McDonnell Douglas DC-10-30 fatal runway overrun (Flight International, 19-25 June) are examining the captain's decision to abort the take-off following a No 3 engine failure, say sources close to the accident inquiry. The aircraft had been rotated for take-off. At that stage, ...
-
News
Brunei FANS-1 upgrade is first on 'Classic' 747
Andrew Doyle/LONDON THE Brunei royal family has ordered the world's first Future Air Navigation System-1 (FANS-1) upgrade for a "Classic" Boeing 747. Work on the modification, which is being performed by Lufthansa Technik, is under way. The aircraft, a 747SP, is being fitted with ...
-
News
Rivals set to benefit from ValuJet suspension of operations
Max Kingsley-Jones/LONDON VALUJET HAS built its main hub at Atlanta Harts-field, and at its peak, the airline represented about 8% of the passenger traffic at the airport, ranking it second only to Delta Air Lines. With ValuJet flights unavailable, "price-sensitive" customers from Atlanta have been ...
-
News
767 precautions
A high-capacity flight-data recorder is being fitted to the Martinair Holland Boeing 767-300ER which suffered total electronic flight-instrument system failure and partial flight-controls loss on 28 May (Flight International, 5-11 June, P8) before the aircraft may return to service, says the US National Transportation Safety Board. Investigator Robert Hancock says ...
-
News
Fatal training
An Iran Air Boeing 727-200 (EP-IRU) on a crew training flight crashed just after take-off from Rasht, Iran, on the south-western shores of the Caspian Sea, killing four of the seven crew, confirms insurance loss-adjuster Air-claims. The 21-year-old aircraft, one of five 727-200s and two 727-100s in Iran Air's fleet, ...
-
News
Bristol
Mark Bills and Paul Davies are the new operations manager and health and safety manager, respectively, at Bristol Airport, in the UK. Bills were previously at the UK Civil Aviation Authority. Davies is an examiner with the National Examination Board in Occupational Safety and Health. Source: ...
-
News
TechniFlite launches simulator-on-wheels deal for regionals
Graham Warwick/ATLANTA A mobile flight-simulator for the Raytheon Beech 1900D regional turboprop is to enter service in January 1997 with Denver, Colorado-based TechniFlite. It will be housed inside a tractor-trailer, which will be driven around the USA to provide on-site initial and recurrent pilot training. ...
-
News
UK industry to launch research effort
Kevin O'Toole/LONDON AFTER YEARS of failing to win new Government funding for civil research-and-technology programmes, the UK's aerospace companies have taken matters into their own hands and launched a programme of industry-funded technology-demonstrator pilots. They hope that the UK Government will now help build the ...
-
News
Boeing plans for further FANS-1 certification
BOEING IS PLANNING to certify future Air Navigation System 1 (FANS-1)-equipped versions of its 757s and 767s by late 1997, possibly as part of a joint US Federal Aviation Administration/European Joint Airworthiness Authorities effort. The US company is developing an improved version of its FANS-1 avionics package to ...
-
News
False pride
THE VERY PUBLIC LOSS of the prototype Ariane 5 on 4 June was not so much a setback for European space activities as it was for European space pride. It should also, however, make European space officials - and their paymasters - reflect on just what is the object of ...
-
News
New study identifies high-risk CFIT categories of operation
David Learmount/LONDON An accident involving controlled flight into terrain (CFIT) in instrument meteorological conditions (IMC), is most likely to happen to a single-crew operation in Africa flying a non- precision approach without a ground-proximity warning system (GPWS) says a so-far-unreleased report which quantifies CFIT risks. ...
-
News
CAA licence to overcharge is simply not on
Sir-The three letters on "GAMTA must look at training" (Flight International, 3-9 April, P95) focus on the high costs incurred by aviation businesses in the UK. As a licensed engineer working for a foreign international airline in this country, I am required to hold a licence issued in ...
-
News
-IPTN's N250
-IPTN's N250 will be a winner, if performance figures match the aircraft's characteristics IF THERE IS any lingering cynicism, over the destiny of IPTN's N250 programme, a visit to the company's design, manufacturing and flight-testing site at Bandung, Indonesia, would be likely to put it to rest. The site ...
-
News
Reutlinger lays down cost goal for Sabena
Herman de Wulf/BRUSSELS SABENA PRESIDENT Paul Reutlinger has laid out details of the new cost-cutting targets and fleet rationalisation being demanded by new partner Swissair in a bid to bring the Belgian carrier back to profitability by 1998. Reutlinger says that Sabena needs to shave ...
-
News
Ariane enquiry
The Ariane enquiry board, set-up to determine the cause of the loss of the first Ariane 5 on 4 June (Flight International, 12-18 June, P4), will also investigate qualification and acceptance test procedures and recommend corrective actions. The findings, of the board are expected to be published on 14, July. ...
-
News
Jet plans acquisitions to boost core-business resources
JET AVIATION IS in talks to acquire K-C Aviation's Transportation Services (KCTS) and Jet Professionals subsidiaries. Agreement is expected in the next 60 days, with the two companies about to enter due-diligence investigations. K-C Aviation says that it is selling the transportation-services companies to free up resources to ...
-
News
Cranfield to tackle gas-turbine degradation with new software
CRANFIELD UNIVERSITY of the UK has developed software to help aircraft operators identify factors which cause engine performance to degrade. Called Pythia, the system is designed to build a modular, computerised, model of a gas-turbine engine, using a Windows-based graphical user-interface. The software, then analyses ...