All Safety News – Page 1452
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LOT on fast track
LOT POLISH AIRLINES, virtually trebled profits in 1995, helped by soaring traffic figures - especially on its fast-growing domestic network. The Polish carrier ended the year with net profits of Pzl6 million ($2 million), as passenger numbers rose by 16%, to 1.8 million. Flights to Central ...
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Pena delivers warning to the UK
LONDON HEATHROW Airport could lose its status as the premier gateway to Europe, if the UK Government continues to prevent open-skies bilateral-air-services talks with the USA, US transport secretary Federico Pena has warned. Pena says that success in negotiating liberal bilaterals with European nations, including Germany, allows passengers ...
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Door accident delays 777 appearance
DISPLAY OF THE Boeing 777 at FIDAE '96, as part of a Latin American sales tour, was delayed when the forward passenger-door was torn off by an air bridge at Bogota, Colombia, on 8 March. The jetway fell, ripping the open door from its hinges. The door is ...
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Former Transwede executives are cleared of fraud
Transwede founder and former chief executive Thomas Johansson and ex-managing director Lars-Olof Svenheim have been cleared of defrauding the airline during their period in office at the Stockholm, Sweden-based scheduled and charter operator. After a six-week investigation, Swedish state prosecutor Berndt Berger, could find no evidence of business ...
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Airbus sets up a new division for A3XX
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES AIRBUS INDUSTRIE IS TO set up a new division to develop its proposed A3XX, with the aircraft now expected to go into service as early as 2002. The division will bring together personnel from the partner companies, and Airbus Industrie itself, under ...
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Inevitable end
The ultimate declaration of bankruptcy by Fokker will be greeted in various quarters with varying degrees of anger, regret and relief. The anger - from Fokker's employees - will be understandable. The regret - especially from Fokker's suppliers and customers - will be justifiable. The relief - from competitors - ...
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Cathay expands fleet
US cargo carrier Atlas Airways is to lease five Boeing 747-200 freighters from FedEx until 1998. The aircraft are the last of 22 747s acquired when FedEx bought Flying Tigers in 1989. The deal, will take Colorado-based Atlas 747 freighter fleet, to 24 by the end of 1997. ...
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Benchmark America
THE ISSUE OF UK PILOT training to approved UK commercial-pilots-licence standard abroad arises, because flying training overseas, particularly in the USA, is less expensive than in the UK. Direct costs, can be about half of those in the UK, but the licence gained is a full UK one. ...
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Germany proposes air-safety 'blacklist'
Andrzej Jeziorski/MUNICH GERMAN TRANSPORT minister Matthias Wissman is pushing for the introduction of a European "black list" of airlines which have questionable safety standards. Airlines on the list would be banned from operating in the European market. If the proposal does not get backing from other ...
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Don't judge one by the majority
Sir - You were right to give the US Federal Aviation Administration finalist status in the Flight International Aerospace Industry Awards 1996 Safety Section, but the illustration of a LanChile freighter shows the problem behind the FAA's policy. Firstly, Chile is among the safe countries on the International ...
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Death toll rises
The crash of China's first Long March 3B and its Intelsat 708 payload on 14 February, T+22s after launch from Xichang, caused six deaths and injuries to 57 on the ground, China Great Wall Industry has revealed. US officials have been invited to participate in an inquiry into the disaster, ...
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CFMI forced into redesign of CFM56-5A/B
Andrew Doyle/LONDON CFM INTERNATIONAL has been forced into a redesign of a turbine rear-frame (TRF) destined for use on all CFM56-5A/B turbofans, after cracks were discovered in the double-annular combustor (DAC) variant, powering Swissair Airbus A320s and A321s. The problem was uncovered, by Swissair engineers ...
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BTG breathes LIVE into ASTA project
David Learmount/AMSTERDAM A BRITISH TECHNOLOGY Group (BTG) system which provides airport ground-movement controllers with real-time identification of all categories of aircraft and vehicles may provide a solution to one part of the US Federal Aviation Administration's all-airport surface-traffic automation (ASTA) project, according to the manufacturer. ...
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Fairchild plans for Asia
FAIRCHILD FASTENERS, the California-based aerospace precision-fastener specialist, hopes to reach final agreement later this month with Taiwan-based King Grand to develop a new joint manufacturing, sales and distribution site near Taipei. Fairchild believes that the move could lead to full fastener-manufacturing capability in Asia in 1997. "We want ...
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Delta warns Europe of coming low-cost threat
Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC EUROPE'S AIR-transport markets will soon face major structural change as the influence of low-cost carriers begins to spread, according to Delta Airlines chairman Ron Allen. Speaking at the US Federal Aviation Administration's Commercial Aviation Forecast conference in Washington on 5 March, Allen ...
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ILFC's latest order spree counts in favour of Airbus
Gunter Endres/LONDONGuy Norris/LOS ANGELES INTERNATIONAL LEASE Finance (ILFC) is further strengthening its aircraft portfolio with an order for 38 new Airbus aircraft, plus eight options, and 18 Boeing 777-200/-300s, plus two options, estimated to be worth a combined $5.8 billion. This latest transaction with Airbus consists ...
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Canadian airlines seek upswing
Kevin O'Toole/LONDON CANADA'S TWO MAIN airlines struggled to deliver their promised profit improvements in 1995, but the heads of Air Canada and Canadian Airlines believe that recovery will come this year as the effects of capacity expansion and cost-cutting show through. Canadian Airlines International saw ...
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Faucett 737: engine emergency ruled out
THE PRESIDENT OF Peruvian carrier Faucett Airlines, which lost a Boeing 737-200 on approach to Lima Arequipa Airport, has denied engine failure and airborne-explosion reports, saying that investigators have determined that both engines were operating at impact. The aircraft crashed about 2km (1nm) from the runway threshold ...
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United attacks 777 reliability
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES UNITED AIRLINES has unleashed a fierce attack on the reliability of its newly acquired Boeing 777s. A letter from a senior United executive to Boeing, dated 13 February, called the aircraft's reliability and performance a "major disappointment". Within 24h of ...
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Schweizer delays delivery of Twin Condor spy craft to US Coast Guard
DELIVERY OF Schweizer Aircraft's RU-38A Twin Condor surveillance aircraft to the US Coast Guard (USCG) has been delayed by between six and eight months because of design flaws discovered during flight-testing of the twin-boom aircraft, says Paul Schweizer, the firm's president. The first of three low-cost, long-range ...