All Safety News – Page 1409
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Harry heads to Air Afrique
Let's hope Sir Harry Tirvengadum is ready for a challenging 1997. The charismatic chairman of Air Mauritius faces a tough transition when he moves over to head up struggling Air Afrique on 1 January 1997. The west African carrier continues to suffer government interference and union pressures which ...
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Alitalia pays a small price
Alitalia has been fined by the Italian antitrust authorities for bullying tactics against domestic competitors, and as it succeeds in removing one through a codeshare deal with startup Alpi Eagles, another potential threat appears in the form of Azzurra Air. The authorities found that Alitalia had 'impeded, blocked ...
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China puts on the squeeze
China is having mixed success in its aviation policy. Despite easing the moratorium on aircraft orders, Beijing is now having to curb international capacity growth for fear of Chinese carriers losing out to their foreign counterparts. But the authorities are having more success in their drive for domestic consolidation. ...
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Beijing spurs triple listing
Three Chinese airlines are pressing ahead with plans for initial public offerings, but at presstime it was unclear whether they would beat the 1 January deadline. Missing that date would mean they would have to include another year's audited financial results in their share prospectuses. Following the Civil ...
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Coded for no competition
A study on codesharing for the European Commission recommends ending the practice on nonstop routes and reducing the number of CRS listings for codeshare flights to one. These are two of the main findings of a study by Amsterdam-based consultants Strategem. Their report finds that codesharing by two ...
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Wheeling out the service
For major airlines seeking high-margin travellers, customer service will be a key to profitability. Still, Philip Festa says pressures within the industry are threatening to squeeze carriers' service levels. Customer service is now the norm throughout almost all sectors of commerce: supermarkets, hotels, banks and fast food chains vie ...
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The disadvantages of supersonic travel
Sir - A 350t, 250-seat supersonic transport (SST), more than twice the size of the Aerospatiale/ British Aerospace Concorde was mentioned in an advertisement (Flight International, 4-10 September). You reported a similar concept from NASA of the USA (Flight International, 17-23 April). Could I place these concepts in relation to ...
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Corporate crash
Four Australians, including two senior executives from one of Papua New Guinea's most prominent companies, were killed on 9 December when their corporate Piper Navajo crashed and burned while approaching Papua New Guinea's Porgera gold mine. One passenger survived with severe burns. Source: Flight International
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The case for use of secondary radar
Sir - It seems incredible that aircraft using the same airspace still have altimeters calibrated in differing units and that "international" airports do not have secondary radar. Insurers do not seem to be interested, especially, given the large claims involved when, for example, there is a mid-air collision. ...
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US ATA plans to establish safety-information exchange
US airlines will have a prototype system for the exchange of safety information operational within a month if predictions by US Air Transport Association (ATA) vice-president operations Al Prest are realised. The aim is to build a database of safety-incident information, which will be large enough to enable ...
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AI(R) offers pilots with Avro RJs
Andrew Doyle/LONDON Aero International (Regional)is offering to supply flight crew and pilot-training packages to airlines which buy Avro regional jets, following the success of a ground-breaking project with Sabena. The regional-aircraft manufacturer developed its "bespoke training system" after Delta Air Transport (DAT), Sabena's regional subsidiary, found ...
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Emergency-exit changes foreshadowed
David Learmount/LONDON Emergency escape hatches on commercial aircraft used in Europe may have to be modified to make them easier and quicker to open, if the findings from a new UK study are implemented. This could lead to fleet retrofit requirements as well as new-build changes if the ...
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GAO opposes airliner user fee plan
The US General Accounting Office (GAO) has warned that smaller US airlines would be hurt by a "user-fee" plan proposed by seven of the major US carriers. The seven airlines, which include United Airlines, American Airlines and Delta Air Lines, say that the fee should be used as ...
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Factory crash
Sixteen of the 17 aircraft occupants and a factory worker were killed on 7 December when an IPTN-built CASA 212 twin-turboprop regional airliner crashed near the South Kalimantan capital of Banjarmasin, Indonesia. The crew reported difficulties, shortly after take-off and aircraft fire, was reported by witnesses on the ground. The ...
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GE and Airbus hold intense A340 engine negotiations
Julian Moxon/Paris General Electric and Airbus Industrie are in "intense" negotiations on a new, exclusive, very-high-bypass-ratio, power plant for the stretched, re-engined, A340-500/600. Airbus vice-president for strategic planning, Adam Brown, says that the US manufacturer is offering an "extremely exciting" power plant solution for the A340 involving ...
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Boeing targets Delta for stretched 767
Paul Lewis and Guy Norris/SEATTLE Boeing is close to launching the stretched 767-400ERX on the back of an anticipated order from Delta Airlines for a complete fleet of passenger aircraft. Interest in the 767 derivative has been revived after years of inactivity, during which time ...
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Airbus studies A3XX production
Julian Moxon/Toulouse Airbus Industrie's Large Aircraft division is considering up to six potential sites in Europe for production of the 500- to 800-seat A3XX transport. "We're looking at either inland or coastal locations," says the division's senior vice-president, Jurgen Thomas. A major study launched in ...
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Harris' WINGS adds weather to flight-planning system
HARRIS HAS introduced a general-aviation flight-planning system, which allows routes to be overlaid on real-time weather graphics. The company's Weather Information and Navigational Graphics System (WINGS) consists of Windows-compatible software for Pentium-class personal computers (PCs). The system provides dial-up access to Melbourne, Florida-based Harris Information Systems' flight- and ...
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US schools fear GPS shortfall
Graham Warwick/ATLANTA The US flight-training industry fears that a problem may be emerging because students trained on older aircraft, which have no satellite-navigation equipment, are unfamiliar with the global-positioning system (GPS). The US National Air Transportation Association (NATA), representing flight schools, has appealed for information ...
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Fokker 50 gear fails
All 41 passengers and four crew escaped unhurt when the left main undercarriage of a KLM City Hopper Fokker 50 collapsed during a landing on 8 December at London Heathrow Airport. The crew had alerted the emergency services after the left gear indicator showed that it had failed to lock ...