All Safety News – Page 1448
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Korean Air orders shortened A330 for long-range routes
KOREAN AIR has signed a letter of intent for two Airbus A330-200s, the new shortened version of the aircraft aimed at developing thinner, long-range routes. The new commitment is believed to be the conversion of two options taken out with an earlier order for seven A330-300s, and may ...
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ValuJet tempers growth as FAA watches watch
VALUJET AIRLINES is to slow its rapid growth for the next few months, citing increased US Federal Aviation Administration safety scrutiny following recent incidents. The low-cost carrier, based in Atlanta, Georgia, will add 13-14 aircraft during 1996, instead of the previously planned 18-24 aircraft. The FAA conducted a ...
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Why a precision approach is safer
Sir - There are parts of the world where it is impossible to install a precision approach (Flight International, 6-12 March, P5 and 20-26 March, P100) because it does not meet International Civil Aviation Organisation standards, so a non-precision approach is used, in most cases without terminal-approach radar at the ...
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Boeing's high-speed transport efforts
Sir - To learn more about Boeing's high-speed transport efforts, Richard Wiggs (Flight International, 27 March-2 April, P107) should read Chapter 16 and PP267-278 of Robert Serlind's 1992 book Legend and Legacy, the Story of Boeing and its People. Chapter 16 says: "More than $1 billion had been ...
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German Government advisors push for domestic fuel tax
GERMANY'S Government-appointed environmental advisory panel has recommended a tax on aviation fuel on domestic routes. It is estimated that a kerosene tax equivalent to that already paid on diesel fuel would raise the cost of flying in Germany by 20%. In the long term, Ewers supports a tax ...
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Most expensive not necessarily the best
Sir - My distaste of the attitudes held by the majority of pilots I have met was increased by Peter Llendell's letter, "Dangers of paying less than going rate" (Flight International, 28 February-5 March, P37). How does Mr Llendell arrive at the conclusion that the safest pilots are ...
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Swift action
Australia's newly elected government has ordered swift action to remove the chronic air-traffic bottleneck at Sydney's Kingsford Smith (KSA) Airport, and boost its capacity by about 25%. Movements on KSA's intersecting east-west runway 07/25, whose approaches over-flew the electorates of two ex-government members including former transport minister Laurie Brereton, will ...
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Robinson design cleared by NTSB
A SPECIAL US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) investigation has exonerated the Robinson R22 and R44 light helicopters of suspected design defects, but it recommends that tougher flight-training requirements remain in force. The ruling comes after an investigation which started in 1994 after a series of fatal ...
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United plans to launch all-cargo service to Asia
Graham Warwick/ATLANTA United Airlines plans to launch an all-cargo service between the USA and Asia, using four McDonnell Douglas DC-10-30 freighters. Approval is being sought for six flights a week in both directions between Tokyo, Osaka, Taipei and Manila and New York, Chicago, Los Angeles and San ...
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Re-usable software tested by MDC
McDONNELL DOUGLAS (MDC) has begun flight-testing a re-usable navigation-software module hosted on a commercial Power PC processor. The software and hardware were flown for the first time on 29 March in an AV-8B Harrier II technology-demonstrator. The same MDC-developed software module will be flight-tested in an F-15 equipped ...
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Regionals continue to grow in USA
Kevin O'Toole/LONDON WHILE THE MAJOR US carriers continue to make the most of the present business recovery, beneath the surface the second tier of national and regional airline groups are in the throes of making major changes. Perhaps the most visible evidence of these changes ...
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Italy becomes part of Eurocontrol
Italy has finally become a full member of Eurocontrol, clearing the way for its full participation in the agency's efforts to harmonise air traffic control (ATC) throughout Europe. Italy is the 21st nation to join Eurocontrol, its membership having previously been blocked by successive governments, which failed to ...
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Europe aims for tighter foreign-airline safety
David Learmount/LONDON FOREIGN AIRLINES are to face tougher safety surveillance when they enter European airspace because of an agreement by the directors-general of the 33-member European Civil Aviation Conference (ECAC) to raise safety standards. This follows a similar decision by European Union ministers early in March. ...
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In-flight disruption
CAPT BILL ARCHER, chairman of the British Airline Pilots Association, addressed the conference on an undesirable consequence of modern passenger services and cabin in-flight entertainment systems. These systems are complex and so far do not have a good enough record of in-flight serviceability. Since passengers have come to ...
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Aer Lingus continues cost drive despite recovery
Kevin O'Toole/LONDON Signs of recovery at Aer Lingus have been accompanied by stern warnings from management that the airline will continue its "remorseless" drive to keep down costs. The Irish flag carrier, which made heavy losses three years ago, posted a relatively respectable IR£15 million ($24 million) net profit for ...
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Deutsche BA suspends deliveries of Saab 2000
Andrzej Jeziorski/MUNICH DEUTSCHE BA HAS suspended further Saab 2000 deliveries to its fleet, after both it and Swiss carrier Crossair were hit by poor dispatch reliability during the harsh European winter. The main problems were brake icing and the ingestion of de-icing fluid by the ...
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Congested Africa
THE CONFERENCE debated the rapid increase in flights over Africa and the several critically deficient air-traffic-control systems in the region. Manoeuvres initiated because of TCAS warnings have occurred, IFALPA notes, and selection of the TCAS display to maximum range was debated, but rejected as a policy because of the varying ...
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Going up market
Russia's Orient Avia is getting the best out of its Ilyushin Il-62 airliners. Paul Duffy/MOSCOW THE COMMONLY HELD belief that Russian and ex-Soviet civil aircraft are not able to achieve the high utilisation levels of Western airliners has been challenged by the experience of Orient ...
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Wake up and join the real world
Sir - At last an accident investigation board, the UK AAIB, has had the courage and professionalism to speak its true mind. The crash of the Boeing 737 freighter at Coventry in December 1994 was contributed to by the likely fatigue of the crew. Crew members, had been on duty ...
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Pilot worries
Not enough of it, sometimes too much of it - pilots remain concerned about technology. Harry Hopkins/DUBLIN AIRLINE PILOTS have issued strong warnings about the premature use of new technology in air-traffic operations, but the absence of technology troubles them as well, it emerged at the annual ...