All Safety News – Page 1435
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Safety review
Controversy about airline safety has been rife in the first six months of 1996. David Learmount/LONDON THERE WERE 609 DEATHS in world airline accidents during the first six months of 1996, which compares with only 206 for the same period the previous year. The figures for 1995, however, ...
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Flying into the future
Communications, navigation and surveillance in European airspace will be substantially different in the next decade - but how different? Kieran Daly/LONDON AROUND THE WORLD, air-traffic-services (ATS) providers are coming to terms with how the advent of the future air-navigation system will affect their airspace. For dozens of nations, ...
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Lufthansa Cargo cuts costs and capacity
Kevin O'Toole/LONDON LUFTHANSA CARGO IS clamping down on costs and capacity, as the world's largest international freight carrier steels itself for another couple of tough years in the heavily oversubscribed international freight market. The operation ended its first year of independence in 1995, showing a DM20 ...
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Gavilan flight-testing resumes
COLOMBIAN manufacturer El Gavilan has begun flight-testing the Gavilan 358 single-engined utility aircraft. The second prototype - the first crashed in 1993 after engine failure - is being flight-tested at Lock Haven, Pennsylvania, and US certification is planned for later this year. Designed and built at Lock Haven ...
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Kenya soars despite pilots pay award
PROFITS CONTINUE TO soar at Kenya Airways, but the newly privatised carrier has outlined a major round of cost cuts following the court award of a massive pay hike to pilots. The pay award, which virtually doubles salaries, came after the airline's 108 pilots referred a pay dispute ...
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Atlas deal for GE
General Electric Engine Services has won a $300 million, ten-year contract to maintain and repair CF6-50 engines powering 15 Boeing 747-200 freighter aircraft operated by Atlas Air. The Colorado-based cargo specialist expects to have a further ten freighters enter service by mid-1997. Source: Flight International
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FAA should tidy up its own back yard
Sir - When the US Federal Aviation Administration began its programme of declaring foreign airworthiness authorities as unfit, and prevented airlines under its jurisdiction from expanding services to the USA, I regarded this as tantamount to air piracy. As recent events, surrounding the ValuJet crash investigations have revealed, ...
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Analogue systems are still worthwhile
Sir - Unlike aircraft, VHF radio systems, which use a single-unit "transceiver", air-traffic-control (ATC) ground/air radio systems use a semi-duplex arrangement. With semi-duplex, the transmitter and receiver are independent items, which, ideally (in the case of ATC), are physically separated. The rationale behind this independence and separation is ...
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DLR cancels Strato 2C contract
Andrzej Jeziorski/MUNICH THE GERMAN Aerospace Research Establishment (DLR), has terminated its contract with Burkhart Grob Aerospace for the development of the Strato 2C high-altitude research aircraft. The cancellation comes after the German Government refused to release DM47 million ($31.3 million) for the completion of the ...
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EC studies US/ European competition
THE EUROPEAN Commission (EC), has launched an investigation, into six alliances between US and European airlines, to determine whether they will limit competition. According to EC competition commissioner Karel Van Miert and transport commissioner Neil Kinnock, the aim is to give the EC similar powers to those ...
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Family fortunes
Braathens SAFE celebrates its 50th anniversary this year, with the founder's grandson at the helm Max Kingsley-Jones/OSLO AT THE LAST COUNT, the Norwegian population totalled some 4.5 million. In 1995, Norway's flag carrier, Braathens SAFE, carried more than 4 million passengers on its domestic routes, representing 52% ...
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Out of the wilderness
The new chief executive of Air Niugini, Moses Maladina, is leading the national airline of Papua New Guinea towards privatisation. Paul Phelan/PORT MORESBY AIR NIUGINI'S new chief executive and former company secretary, 31-year-old lawyer Moses Maladina, faces daunting tasks in his work of grooming the airline ...
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Date set for Ariane 5 report
THE REPORT of the official enquiry into the loss of the European Space Agency's (ESA) first Ariane 5 booster after launch from Kourou, French Guiana, on 4 June, is due to be released on 15 July. The second Ariane 5 launch is still scheduled for October. The accident ...
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Third-party maintenance directory
Part 2: The Americas Jennifer Pite/LONDON IN THE USA, many providers of third-party maintenance are having a difficult time. Significantly, however, Sabretech has leased the ex-Page Avjet site in Orlando, Florida, and is planning to offer heavy maintenance and modifications, initially for Boeing 737s and Lockheed L-1011 TriStars, ...
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UK taxes tilt training balance in US favour
David Learmount/LONDON TAX CHARGES ARE THE prime reason that the UK flying-training industry is unable to compete against US rivals, according to the draft of a study of US flying-training organisations (FTOs) undertaken by the UK General Aviation Manufacturers and Traders Association (GAMTA). A UK ...
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Embraer increases EMB-145 cruise speed
WITH THE Embraer EMB-145 flight-test programme now well on the way towards certification, the Brazilian manufacturer has released more details on the improved performance of the aircraft, with cruise speed and fuel consumption better than originally advertised. At an early stage of flight-testing, Embraer revealed that the aircraft ...
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Airbus tackles A320 pilot shortage
Andrew Doyle/LONDON AN AIRBUS INDUSTRIE pilot team is attempting to improve the utilisation rate of Indian Airlines' A320 fleet. The team, which consists of Airbus training captains and airline check-pilots, has been dispatched to the airline in an effort to help it overcome a shortage ...
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Saab improves 2000 dispatch reliability
Andrzej Jeziorski/MUNICH SAAB AIRCRAFT is modifying the Saab 2000 turboprop to overcome dispatch-reliability problems, which afflicted the fleets of Deutsche BA and Crossair during the European winter. According to Saab operations chief Johan Oster, the aircraft is now operating at close to its target of 99% ...
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BA pilots vote to strike for Gatwick pay parity
BRITISH AIRWAYS' pilots have voted in favour of a British Airline Pilots Association (BALPA) strike, which could see the first industrial stoppage involving BA flight-crews for 20 years. The union has cited several issues, about pay and working conditions, although the dispute is centred around BA's Euro Gatwick ...
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Austrian acts to beat falling traffic
AUSTRIAN AIRLINES is planning further route and staff cuts in response to falling traffic, says director Mario Rehulka. The carrier has also cut back on flights to Germany, launched a marketing campaign, and entered talks with pilot unions with the aim of reducing pension costs. The measures are ...