All Safety News – Page 1434
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TWA 747 crash raises spectre of terrorism
Graham Warwick/ATLANTA LOCATING THE cockpit-voice and flight-data recorders was the priority following the 17 July crash of a Trans World Airlines (TWA) Boeing 747-100 into the Atlantic Ocean off Long Island, New York. All 210 passengers and 18 crew on board TWA Flight 800 were killed ...
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Deja deja vu
THE JAPANESE AND US Governments are once again going to the edge in the latest round of bilateral-air-service negotiations by threatening each other with sanctions and counter-sanctions. The news has been greeted by industry observers, in Tokyo and Washington, with a collective cry of "here we go again". ...
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Japan blames Airbus and China Airlines for 1994 Nagoya Airport accident
AIRBUS INDUSTRIE and China Airlines (CAL) have both been attributed with blame by a Japanese investigation into the April 1994 crash of an A300-600R at Nagoya. A final report issued by Japan's Aircraft Accident Investigation Commission (AAIC) points to deficiencies in the design of the aircraft's flight-control ...
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Crash spoils TWA safety record
THE TWA 747-100 accident on 17 July marks the first fatal crash for the airline in a decade. The last incident occurred in April 1986, when a terrorist bomb exploded on board a Boeing 727 inbound to Athens, killing four passengers, although the aircraft landed safely. Excluding terrorist ...
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Eurocontrol
Henri Blunier has become director of the Brussels, Belgium-based Eurocontrol Institute of Air Navigation Services. He was put in charge of training Berne-based operational staff in 1991. Source: Flight International
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PNG crash
All 18 passengers and the pilot were killed when a Milne Bay Air (MBA) de Havilland Twin Otter crashed into high terrain north of Mendi, in Papua New Guinea (PNG), on 9 July. Preliminary reports suggest that the accident was weather-related. MBA suffered a fatal accident in Papua New Guinea ...
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BA tones up alliance defence
British Airways' proposed tie-up with American Airlines could be the most scrutinised partnership in airline history Kevin O'Toole and Max Kingsley-Jones/LONDON RARELY CAN AN AIRLINE alliance have whipped up such controversy. Since it was announced, the proposed tie-up between British Airways and American Airlines has been drawing unprecedented ...
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FAA and NTSB continue to spar over FDRS
Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC US PASSENGER airlines will be required to retrofit their fleets with enhanced flight-data recorders (EFDRs) within about four years under a US Federal Aviation Administration proposal. The US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), meanwhile, continues to criticise the FAA for acting too slowly. ...
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ATR 72 report drives a wedge into bilateral certification
Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC David Learmount/LONDON THE TRANSATLANTIC bilateral aircraft-certification process has been thrown into turmoil following accusations by the US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) that the French aviation authority and the ATR consortium were to blame for an ATR 72 crash in the USA in 1994 which ...
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Airbus keeps pace with Boeing-
Kevin O'Toole and Max Kingsley-Jones/LONDON AFTER A POOR SHOWING of aircraft orders in 1995, Airbus Industrie appears to have held its own against Boeing in the first half of 1996, while the overall jet-airliner market continues to recover for both manufacturers. Although the headline figures show ...
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Test of faith
NO-ONE BENEFITS when accident-investigation agencies clash over the cause of an air crash. The arguments may be based on genuine grievances, but they only serve to deflect attention from the wider issues at stake. It has happened this week because the US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has ...
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Hub crack is blamed for MD-88 fan failure
A FATIGUE crack in the fan hub is the likely cause of the uncontained failure of a Pratt & Whitney JT8D-219 powering a Delta McDonnell Douglas MD-88. Two passengers were killed and four injured when the left-engine fan disintegrated, sending debris into the cabin during the take-off run of Flight ...
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Raytheon 1900D fire threat revealed
THE THREAT OF cockpit fires has prompted the US Federal Aviation Administration to order US regional airlines to disarm windscreen anti-icing systems on their Raytheon Aircraft 1900D turboprops, pending development of a solution. Operators of the 19-passenger aircraft have now been prohibited from flying into known icing conditions. ...
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ValuJet bids to resume flying with smaller fleet
VALUJET AIRLINES hopes to win the US Federal Aviation Administration's approval to resume service as early as the first week of August. It has submitted a plan to the FAA's Atlanta, Georgia, regional office describing how the grounded low-fare carrier would resume flights with about 15 aircraft. More ...
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China nears European deal
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE CHINA HOPES to finalise a workshare agreement with European manufacturers and Singapore Technologies (ST) before the end of the year, following the signing of a letter of intent (LoI) last week to develop a 90- to 140-seat regional jet. Signature of the LoI officially ...
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Leading the way to extinction?
Sir - A petulant strike by pilots of the world's most successful airline would be a double betrayal of the piloting profession. Besides bringing it into disrepute, it could contribute to its ultimate extinction with the advent of the unmanned airliner. The prestige and salaries enjoyed by British ...
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The cabin challenge
Perceptions of new cabin dangers are emerging as old problems resurface. Paul Phelan/CAIRNS David Learmount/LONDON AIRLINE PASSENGERS ignore safety briefings because they believe that it is the cabin crew's responsibility to protect them, according to recent research. Professor Helen Muir, of Cranfield University in the UK, ...
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Germany will close three radar centres by 2000
Andrzej Jeziorski/FRANKFURT T HE GERMAN AIR-traffic- services agency Deutsche Flugsicherung (DFS) is to close down three of its six radar centres by the year 2000 as part of the agency's efficiency drive. No decision has yet been made about which centres are to go, says DFS ...
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Jet finalises regional-fleet plan
Max Kingsley-Jones/LONDON JET AIRWAYS IS finalising plans for the acquisition of a fleet of regional aircraft to operate on services in north-eastern India. ,Jet Airways' chairman Naresh Goyal says that the airline is committed to initiating regional services: "We are vigorously pursuing plans to induct smaller ...
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It's the passengers who matter
Sir - The argument that "-the airline industry needs to bring public perceptions and expectations in line with reality" in your Comment, "Means to and end" (Flight International, 3-9 July), surely needs to be turned on its head. The airlines need to listen to what the customer wants and expects, ...