All Safety News – Page 1471
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Western partners lose patience over An-124
Kieran Daly/LONDON WESTERN CARGO companies with interests in the Antonov An-124 Ruslan outsize freighter are expressing growing exasperation with its engines. The combination of the D-18T turbofan's unreliability and future difficulties in coping with noise restrictions has led to a showdown with Ukrainian engine design bureau ...
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Swissair runs into turbulence over Sabena alliance
FURTHER controversy has blown up around Swissair's alliance talks with Sabena, following the disclosure that the Swiss carrier is planning to make a revised offer which will include a call for "substantial" Belgian Government help in recapitalising its national carrier. "Swissair will formulate a new offer later this ...
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UK spells out London airports policy
THE UK GOVERNMENT'S long-awaited response to the report by the "Runway capacity to serve the south-east" working-group rules out the possibility of a third Heathrow runway, but allows for a close, parallel, runway at Gatwick. Transport secretary Brian Mawhinney is asking the Civil Aviation Authority to study further ...
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US airlines remain in the red
Kevin O'Toole/LONDON THE US AIRLINE industry again failed to produce the long-awaited return to profitability in 1994 as carriers paid for their latest round of restructuring. Two airlines, USAir and Continental Airlines, have warned of further job losses and aircraft deferrals to come. With most of ...
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Emergency landing mars 777 test success
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES JUBILATION OVER THE "flawless" first flight of a General Electric GE90-powered Boeing 777 on 2 February was overshadowed by an incident on another 777 test aircraft which was forced into an emergency landing at Boeing Field later the same day. Boeing launched an ...
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Air Inter springs profit surprise
FRENCH DOMESTIC airline Air Inter unexpectedly recorded a profit during 1994, the first positive result for four years. On a turnover of Fr11.74 billion ($2.24 billion), the airline made a Fr21 million profit, when a loss of around Fr100 million had been predicted. The improved figures were because ...
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Moonlighting can cause problems
Sir - The letter from the director-general of the International Air Carrier Association (Flight International. 11-17 January, P45) struck a chord with me. A few years ago, a newspaper article reported that an airline captain had fallen asleep while taxiing in after night duty. What was ...
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Safety must be paramount
Sir - I refer to your editorial "Difference of opinion" and the article "ATR tests rival types to challenge FAA actions" (Flight International, 21 December, 1994-3 January, 1995). It is my view that the French Directorate General of Civil Aviation's (DGAC's) primary focus is the support of French products, with ...
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Researchers abandon work on take-off monitoring
David Learmount/AMSTERDAM EUROPEAN AND US research on a system to improve airliner take-off safety has ground to a halt, faced with lack of interest from regulators, industry, and operators. Two agencies - NASA Langley in the USA and the National Research Laboratory (NLR) in Amsterdam, ...
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Back to the boom?
Are early indications of an approaching boom in aircraft markets premature? Kevin O'Toole/LONDON Recession is barely over, yet many are already beginning to dust off the bunting ready to welcome back another boom in aircraft markets. Whether the reality of the coming year lives up to this ...
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ANA re-jigs aircraft orders in fleet plan
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE ALL NIPPON AIRWAYS (ANA) has announced major new aircraft purchases, order deferrals and cancellations, resulting from a review of its fleet requirement up to 2000 and beyond The changes cover the purchase of 18 new Airbus A321s and A320s and Boeing 767s and ...
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US schools drop R22s
TWO MAJOR US flight schools have decided to replace their Robinson R22s with Schweizer's new Model 300CB training helicopter, citing as a factor safety concerns with the R22. Schweizer launched the 300CB at Heli-Expo with orders for 23 aircraft, including ten for Concord, California-based Helicopter Adventures. Oakland, California-based ...
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Wreckage from Long March kills six people
Tim Furniss/LONDON FALLING DEBRIS FROM the explosion of the Long March 2E after its launch from Xichang, in Sichuan province, south-west China on 26 January (Flight International, 1-7 February), killed six people and injured 23 inhabitants of a hilly area 7km (4 miles) downrange. These ...
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Ariane 5 tests completed
Julian Moxon/PARIS THE LAST OF A SERIES of seven tests of the Ariane 5 cryogenic stage was carried out successfully at Kourou, French Guiana, on 27 January. On the same day there were a further two tests of the Vulcain main engine in France and Germany. ...
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Pitot icing suspected in X-31 crash
THE INTERIM REPORT into the crash of a Rockwell/Daimler Benz Aerospace X-31 has identified a malfunction in the pilot-static system as the major contributory factor to the loss of the high angle-of-attack research aircraft (Flight International, 1-7 February). Project accident investigations, are now believed to be centred on ...
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TransAsia ATR 72 was flying 'too low'
TAIWANESE investigators examining the nighttime crash, of a TransAsia Airways ATR 72 on 30 January, are trying to determine, why the aircraft was around 1,500ft (430m) below its prescribed altitude. The ATR 72 turboprop was cleared to land and the pilot was about to begin the approach to ...
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Western partners lose patience over An-124
Kieran Daly/LONDON WESTERN CARGO companies with interests in the Antonov An-124 Ruslan outsize freighter are expressing growing exasperation with its engines. The combination of the D-18T turbofan's unreliability and future difficulties in coping with noise restrictions has led to a showdown with Ukrainian engine design ...
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Swissair runs into turbulence over Sabena alliance
FURTHER controversy has blown up around Swissair's alliance talks with Sabena, following the disclosure that the Swiss carrier is planning to make a revised offer which will include a call for "substantial" Belgian Government help in recapitalising its national carrier. "Swissair will formulate a new offer later this ...
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UK spells out London airports policy
THE UK GOVERNMENT'S long-awaited response to the report by the "Runway capacity to serve the south-east" working-group rules out the possibility of a third Heathrow runway, but allows for a close, parallel, runway at Gatwick. Transport secretary Brian Mawhinney is asking the Civil Aviation Authority to study further ...
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US airlines remain in the red
Kevin O'Toole/LONDON THE US AIRLINE industry again failed to produce the long-awaited return to profitability in 1994 as carriers paid for their latest round of restructuring. Two airlines, USAir and Continental Airlines, have warned of further job losses and aircraft deferrals to come. With most ...