All Safety News – Page 1465

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    Pacific bus stops

    1995-03-22T00:00:00Z

    Hawaiian operators plan to tap a predicted growth in South Seas tourism. Guy Norris/HONOLULU Hawaiian guitar music wafts across the palm-fringed beach near Waikiki on a balmy afternoon. High overhead, locally based airliners look like partners in paradise as they shuttle to neighbouring islands. ...

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    FAA endorses capsule for child survival

    1995-03-22T00:00:00Z

    HOOVER INDUSTRIES has won US Federal Aviation Administration approval for its infant and small-child life preserver. The product is thought to be the only one to meet FAA Technical Standing Order C13f requirements. The FAA requires that the upper torso be prevented from coming into contact with water. ...

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    Cathay issues cost warning despite rise profit rise

    1995-03-22T00:00:00Z

    Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE CATHAY PACIFIC Airways has issued further warnings over falling yields and rising costs, despite reporting a 4% increase in net profits for 1994. Profits ended the year broadly in line with analyst expectations at HK$2.4 billion ($310 million), but Cathay chairman Peter Sutch ...

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    Human error blamed in An-70 crash

    1995-03-22T00:00:00Z

    THE UKRAINIAN-LED commission investigating the crash on 10 February of the Antonov An-70 four-prop-fan prototype has ruled that the main cause of the accident was "human error", despite continuing allegations of technical problems with the aircraft. The commission says that the mid-air collision of the An-70 with ...

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    European ministers discuss open skies policy

    1995-03-22T00:00:00Z

    Julian Moxon/PARIS European transport ministers have reached a tentative agreement to develop a common policy on open skies following the spate of recent agreements between individual countries and the USA. Within a 15-day period, six European Union countries (Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Luxembourg and Sweden) ...

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    Bombardier prepares for Dash 8-400 launch

    1995-03-22T00:00:00Z

    Lane Wallace/LOS ANGELES BOMBARDIER'S LAUNCH of the de Havilland Dash 8-400 now seems certain as it begins negotiations with potential risk-sharing partners on the 70-seat, high-speed, regional turboprop. Initial letters of intent to purchase the model have been signed and some early delivery positions have ...

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    SAS defects to Boeing from MDC

    1995-03-22T00:00:00Z

    Julian Moxon/PARIS ...

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    UK investigators query certification of A340

    1995-03-22T00:00:00Z

    Kieran Daly/LONDON UK ACCIDENT investigators are asking the European Joint Aviation Authorities whether it was aware of "shortcomings" in the Airbus A340's fuel and flight-management systems when the type was certificated. The move follows its investigation of an incident in which an A340 crew suffered ...

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    DC-10 record is unblemished

    1995-03-22T00:00:00Z

    Sir - A Papadakis (Flight International, Letters, 1-7 March, P35) asks why the US Federal Aviation Administration was not as stringent with the McDonnell Douglas DC-10 as he believes it was with the ATR turboprop. The answer is twofold. Firstly, the record of the DC-10 never called for ...

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    ERS 1 success story

    1995-03-22T00:00:00Z

    When the ERS project began, it was seen as providing a remote-sensing satellite to provide systematic, repetitive, global coverage of the ocean, coastal zones and ice caps. It soon took on an "environmental" mantle. The ERS 1 has exceeded its planned operational life by 50% and has acquired, more than ...

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    TCAS In France

    1995-03-22T00:00:00Z

    BFGoodrich Aerospace Avionics Systems has received French approval for its TCAS 791 traffic-alert and collision-avoidance system (TCAS 1) - the first TCAS approval in France, it says. Source: Flight International

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    BMA 737: were precautions needed?

    1995-03-22T00:00:00Z

    Sir - I refer to the report "Oil loss forces down BMA 737" (Flight International, 8-14 March, P16). When I was an apprentice, my airline did not permit scheduled maintenance on more than one engine per aircraft input, even on three-engine types. At another airline, I was not ...

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    Taxi Rule Change

    1995-03-22T00:00:00Z

    The US Federal Aviation Administration has banned the night time practice of allowing aircraft to taxi on to an active runway and hold until cleared for take-off. The "taxi into position and hold" instruction used to speed airport traffic-flows is being prohibited at night following several near misses. ...

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    Lifting the gloom

    1995-03-15T00:00:00Z

    The mood at GAMTA's annual conference in London was very different to that in 1994. Kieran Daly/LONDON The second half of the 1990s will test Europe's general aviation (GA) operators beyond precedent, but it may also reward them, as never before. What is beyond doubt is that ...

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    EC tries to close ranks over US open-skies deals

    1995-03-15T00:00:00Z

    Julian Moxon/PARIS EUROPEAN TRANSPORT ministers will be asked to toe the line on a common "open-skies" policy for the European Union in a crucial meeting to be held in Brussels on 13-14 March. The matter has moved to the top of the agenda as the ...

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    United boss warns USA on fuel tax

    1995-03-15T00:00:00Z

    A MOVE BY the Clinton Administration to begin collecting a transportation fuel tax from US airlines could shut down some financially struggling US carriers, United Airlines chairman and chief executive Gerald Greenwald, has warned. The previously enacted fuel surcharge, was waived by the US Government until October 1995, ...

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    Corporatised NZAC cuts ATC cost charges

    1995-03-15T00:00:00Z

    AIRWAYS CORPORATION of New Zealand, which supplies air-traffic services to the country, has reduced its charges by a further 3% for en route instrument-flight-rules operations and international airport-approach services. The reductions follow a 10% discount already in place from October 1994. Airways Corporation chairman, Rex Loach says, that ...

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    Cat III GPS 'feasible', USA will tell ICAO

    1995-03-15T00:00:00Z

    Kieran Daly/LONDON THE USA IS TO present data to the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) which, it says, demonstrate the feasibility of Category III satellite-navigation precision approaches. US delegates to the key Communications/Operations Divisional meeting (COM-OPS 95), due to take place in Montreal between 27 ...

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    USA ponders ARIA request to guarantee loans for Il-96Ms

    1995-03-15T00:00:00Z

    A POLITICAL ROW involving the Ilyushin Il-96M, Boeing and Pratt & Whitney is expected to be resolved in mid-April when the US Export Import Bank (Exim) decides whether to make loan guarantees sought by Aeroflot-Russian International Airlines (ARIA). The trade dispute within the US aerospace industry and the ...

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    BA considers A330 for medium-haul fleet update

    1995-03-15T00:00:00Z

    Kevin O'Toole/LONDON BRITISH AIRWAYS plans to make a decision on updating its medium-haul fleet within the next 12 months, with the Airbus A330 among the contenders. The airline says that in a year's time it will be in a position to begin "seriously considering" acquisition ...