All Safety News – Page 1414
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Poor safety monitoring
The US Federal Aviation Administration has given several Caribbean states poor marks for monitoring aviation safety. These are Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Dominica, Grenada, Montserrat, St Lucia, St. Vincent and The Grenadines, and St Kitts and Nevis. Only limited operations to the USA are permitted until improvements are made. ...
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Kiwi International rescue is in doubt, while ValuJet sees red
Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC The future of Kiwi International Airlines remains in doubt and liquidation of the low-fare US airline entrant is a distinct possibility as a rescue effort turns sour. Kiwi, which filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on 30 September and suspended its scheduled flight ...
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Pedigree preserved
Peter Henley/LUTON By the time British Aerospace sold its corporate-jets business to Raytheon in 1993, the BAe 125 8-14 passenger twinjet had gained a formidable reputation. Since 1962, when the original de Havilland DH 125 was first flown, 850 customers from more than 40 countries had purchased various ...
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Collins
A demonstration flight in Rockwell-Collins' Sabreliner testbed, equipped with a prototype of its Pro Line 21 display for the Raytheon Premier I, illustrates the progress made since the system was launched a year ago. The first impression of the display is of solid colours and crisp symbols against a smooth ...
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Hunting new pastures
Max Kingsley-Jones/Coventry On 17 October, Hunting Cargo Airlines retired its remaining Vickers "VC9" Merchantman (Vanguard) freighter when the last operational example was flown to the Brooklands Museum in Surrey, south-west of London, for preservation. This marked the end of a 20-year association with the four-engined turboprop for the ...
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Blanc insists on fleet mixture
Julian Moxon/Paris Air France president Christian Blanc has made it clear to the French Government that he wants to order a mix of Boeing 777s and Airbus A340s as part of the flag carrier's fleet-renewal programme. Up to ten of each type are likely to be ...
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Safety delegates warned on Third World issues
David Learmount/DUBAI EFFORTS TO IMPROVE the world's air-transport safety will fail while the industry continues to ignore the needs of developing countries and the Third World, where most accidents happen, according to Pakistan International Airlines' Capt Amjad Faizi. Delegates from 40 nations attended the combined Dubai ...
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The sequence of events leading to the mid-air collision
The Boeing 747, one of eight Series 168Bs (ie, the -100B) operated by Saudi Arabian, departed New Delhi's Indira Gandhi International Airport at around 18.33 local, and headed on a westerly course (270¹) from the Delhi VOR navigation beacon (DPN). The 747, which seems to have been operating ...
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Reasons for A3XX wing arrangement
Sir - Airbus Industrie is glad to see the interest that the A3XX is creating among Flight International readers. This is reflected in the recent proposals for the wing arrangement which we have read in your magazine. Since the mid-1980s, during the development of the A3XX, various configurations ...
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Vanguard Variations
The Merchantman's origins lay with the 100- to 140-seat Vickers Vanguard of the early 1960s. The four-engined turboprop was first flown from the Vickers-Armstrongs factory at Brooklands on 20 January 1959, and entered service with British European Airways (BEA) in December 1960. Although very economical to operate, the design was ...
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Russia will ditch automatic docking system on Soyuz
Tim Furniss/LONDON The Russian space industry's cash crisis has claimed another victim. Future manned Soyuz TM spacecraft will no longer be fitted with the Kurs S-band automatic docking system. The spacecraft is a key part of the Russian manned space programme and is used to shuttle ...
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AI(R) seeks lease financing
PaulLewis/ZHUHAI AERO INTERNATIONAL (Regional) (AI(R)) is asking competing engine manufacturers to provide lease financing for the yet-to-be-launched AIR 70 regional jet, in exchange for being selected to supply the new aircraft's powerplant. The European consortium is asking the three rival engine suppliers to assist with up ...
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ValuJet fire tests begin
Federal air-safety investigators have attempted to re-create the fire which brought down a ValuJet Airlines McDonnell Douglas DC-9-30 on 11 May in Florida. Cardboard boxes of oxygen-generating canisters and inflated tyres were loaded into the cargo hold of a fuselage in an attempt to duplicate the accident. Some of the ...
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FSF launches final assault on 'killer' CFIT accident rate
David Learmount/DUBAI THE FLIGHT SAFETY Foundation (FSF) is this week launching the final phase of its attack on the airline industry's worst killer-accident category, controlled flight into terrain (CFIT), insisting that it intends to halve the annual number of CFIT accidents by 1998. Over the last ...
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In-flight Trent 700 failure forces Cathay A330 back to Saigon
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE Cathay Pacific Airways is investigating the involuntary in-flight shutdown on 11 November of a Rolls-Royce Trent 700 engine, which forced the crew of one of its Airbus A330-300s to return to Saigon shortly after take-off. The engine suffered a suspected internal gearbox failure as ...
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Without authority
On the question of the status of the European Joint Aviation Authorities (JAA) and of Eurocontrol, the decision to fudge the issue of by making them "official international bodies" but not single European authorities will, like most similar compromises, do more to salve bureaucratic consciences than to solve European problems. ...
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FAA improves US fire and rescue services
Technology designed to assist airport rescue and firefighting crews at night and in bad weather has been deployed by the US Federal Aviation Administration. The Driver's Enhanced Vision System (DEVS), developed at the FAA's research-and-development centre, combines satellite navigation, digital datalink and infra-red (IR) technologies. Using the DEVS, ...
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EC supports compromise over status of JAA and Eurocontrol
Kevin O'Toole/Brussels THE EUROPEAN Commission (EC) says that it is supporting a compromise deal to establish the region's Joint Aviation Authorities (JAA) and Eurocontrol as official international bodies, but which stops short of creating single European authorities. Proposals for a reformed JAA are due to be ...
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Chinese Allies
AlliedSignal Aerospace has as signed a series of preliminary agreements with Aviation Industries of China (AVIC) and Shanghai Avionics (SAVIC) to expand its activities in China. It is discussing co-producing systems, including a traffic-alert and collision-avoidance system, enhanced ground-proximity-warning system, ACARS and general-aviation avionics. AlliedSignal is also discussing the possibility ...
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Ansett A330-200 order decision imminent
Max Kingsley-Jones/London Ansett Australia says that it will decide by the end of the year whether to become the Australasian launch customer for the Airbus Industrie A330-200, which would see it placing orders for up to 14 aircraft for delivery starting in mid-1998. According to the ...