All Safety News – Page 1424
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US pilot hiring up
Major US airlines almost doubled pilot hiring in 1995, according to Atlanta, Georgia-based Aviation Information Resources (AIR). The consultancy says that 12 majors hired 2,377 pilots, up from 1,266 in 1994. The forecast is for the airlines to hire 2,500 pilots in 1996. Overall, 196 airlines surveyed by AIR hired ...
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Wavionix speeds up design of air-traffic flight patterns
David Learmount/LONDON A SOFTWARE product which is claimed to revolutionise the safe design of air-traffic flight procedures has been launched by a new company, Wavionix, based in Lausanne, Switzerland. The time taken to design new air-traffic flight patterns or amend existing ones can be cut from ...
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British Midland to face JAR action
IMPLEMENTATION OF the European Joint Aviation Regulations (JARs) has led to criminal charges being brought against British Midland Airlines by the UK Civil Aviation Authority following a maintenance error in 1995. JARs make companies, rather than individuals, responsible for errors. The BMA mistake caused the emergency diversion and ...
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Air France sneaks profit
Gilbert Sedbon/PARIS AIR FRANCE HAS turned in a modest profit for the first half of its 1995/6 financial year, but with the carrier's weakest traffic months still to come and the fall-out of French industrial unrest in December, the airline expects further heavy losses for the full year. ...
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Meridiana pioneers regional satcoms
ITALIAN REGIONAL carrier Meridiana is to fit its fleet of British Aerospace BAe 146-200s with passenger satellite-telephones. The move is the first satellite communication (satcom) installation on the 146 and the first significant passenger-satcom made available by a regional carrier, according to In-Flight Entertainment, the Flight International newsletter. ...
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Evergreen flies all-GPS 747
EVERGREEN International Airlines has replaced the inertial-navigation system (INS) in a Boeing 747-100 freighter with a triple global-positioning system (GPS) installation, the first INS replacement by GPS in a 747. The installation of three Trimble TNL-8100 GPS navigation systems in the 747 was certificated by avionics-engineering firm Canard ...
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Lone Star launches APALS map-based landing system
Graham Warwick/ATLANTA US REGIONAL LONE Star Airlines is the launch customer for Lockheed Martin's autonomous precision-approach and landing system (APALS). The Fort Worth, Texas-based airline has signed a memorandum of understanding to equip its four Dornier 328 regional turboprops with the system, which uses the aircraft's radar to ...
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FAA agrees to investigate phase-in of free-flight
THE US FEDERAL Aviation Administration has declared in favour of phased introduction of "free-flight" air navigation as recommended by a Radio Technical Commission for Aeronautics task-force report. Monte Belger, the FAA's associate administrator for air-traffic services, says that the aviation agency will respond formally this month to the ...
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JAA reform crucial, claims Euro chief
David Learmount/LONDON THE HEAD OF the European Commission's (EC's) air-safety unit has delivered a stinging attack on the status of the European Joint Aviation Authorities (JAA), claiming that the body's regulations do not have any force in European Union (EU) law. The EC view effectively dooms ...
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Government recommendation raises Grob Strato 2C fears
Andrzej Jeziorski/MUNICH GERMAN RESEARCH and technology minister Jurgen Ruttgers has recommended that the Grob Strato 2C high-altitude research-aircraft programme be cancelled. The minister is believed to have handed a report to the country's parliamentary budget committee advising that the Government refuse further support for the aircraft. ...
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US airline profits start to roll in
AMERICAN AIRLINES and Northwest Airlines set the scene for a record profits performance from the US airline industry as they led the round of year-end reporting. Northwest, which has helped lead the major US carriers out of recession over the past two years, posted another record year with ...
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Training crash
An Indonesian Beechcraft Baron training aircraft crashed in Bandung on 18 January, killing at least 14 people, including its crew of four. The Baron, owned by the state-run Curug flight-training school, is reported to have developed engine trouble. Source: Flight International
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Boeing 757 operators are advised of engine problem
Gunter Endres/LONDON BOEING HAS warned operators of 757s about several engine-rundown incidents on aircraft powered by Rolls-Royce RB.211-535E4 s. About half of the 700 aircraft operated by some 60 airlines across the world are involved, but the indications are that only older examples are affected. According ...
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BA could use UK unemployed pilots
Sir - It would appear that the British Airline Pilots Association is the lapdog of British Airways, which could not recognise the stick when it was thrown in early 1995. There are still about 1,000 unemployed UK pilots (plus European colleagues), many of whom have the Boeing 737 ...
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Pilot fatigue caused Coventry crash
PILOT FATIGUE, combined with a disregard for a published minimum decision height, caused the fatal 21 December, 1994, Air Algerie Boeing 737-200 freighter crash on the approach to Coventry Airport in the UK, according to the official report. The aircraft had been on a surveillance-radar approach (SRA), ...
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Seizing the initiative
Russia is taking steps to improve air-safety and save its international reputation. Paul Duffy/MOSCOW THE INTERNATIONAL furore, which followed the loss of an Aeroflot Russian International Airlines Airbus A310, en route from Moscow to Hong Kong, in March 1994, proved to be the catalyst, which prompted Russia's ...
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Off target
1995's world airline safety performance shows that targets are not being met. David Learmount/LONDON FIGURES FOR 1995 confirm that numbers for world airline fatal accidents are showing an upward trend. The 1995 fatal-accident total (57) and the number of resulting fatalities (1,215) are significantly above the annual ...
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Dornier pushes for laminar-wing funding
Andrzej Jeziorski/MUNICH DORNIER LUFTFAHRT, the regional-turboprop subsidiary of Daimler-Benz Aerospace (DASA), is pushing for Government funding to test a laminar-flow wing on the Dornier 328 regional turboprop. The German company says that the project is one of several technology investigations applicable to future regional-turboprop designs, ...
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Burkhart Grob sacks half of its workforce as funding deadlock threatens Strato 2C
Andrzej Jeziorski/MUNICH GERMAN COMPOSITE-aircraft manufacturer Burkhart Grob has sacked half of its employees because of continuing delays in the release of Government funding for the Strato 2C high-altitude research programme. The whole project now faces cancellation. Grob has made 131 of its staff redundant, shattering ...
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Delta used UK slots in disguise
Sir - In reply to the letter "US carriers should think again" (Flight International, 3-9 January, P39), Mr Howard is mistaken in thinking that Delta ever had slots at London Heathrow. What he recalls seeing were McDonnell Douglas DC-8-33s painted in Delta Air Lines' colours, beginning in 1969, which were ...