All Safety News – Page 1472
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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 ...
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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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Handling trouble
The ground handling debate is underlining the challenges facing the European Commission in policing Europe's single market. The trouble with the European Commission is that it has too many difficulties putting its laudable objectives into action. Ground handling offers the latest example of this. A year after ...
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Sense stems Pacific pride
South Pacific island governments are finally taking steps to stem the flow of red ink that has bedevilled most of their tiny national airlines for the past decade. At presstime, aviation officials from the dozen isolated nations were studying a comprehensive new report designed to set them back ...
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Still not free to handle
The European Commission may have finally produced a directive aimed at dismantling the European ground handling monopolies, but its application is at least three if not six years away. Instead, Brussels will continue to pursue complaints with traditional methods, as it has with its most recent action against the Greek ...
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Air Namibia Bonn threat
Air Namibia may have to suspend its only intercontinental service amid charges of arm-twisting by Bonn officials which leaves German carriers in a dominant position. The airline, which entered the long-haul market only four years ago, says it may have to cease operating its three times weekly Windhoek-Frankfurt-London ...
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US shapes and wavers
Canada's intent to liberalise its bilateral with the US will give transportation secretary Federico Peña his first major foreign policy success. And moves in Brussels over the US open skies proposal to nine European nations may add impetus to resolve the dispute over how to address codesharing in the offer. ...
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Mexico feels the peso bite
The catastrophic devaluation of the peso against the US dollar at the end of December has made matters worse for the Mexican airline industry. The economically precarious Aeromexico-Mexicana consortium, now being run by its creditor banks, is especially at risk. The good news being trumpeted for Mexican carriers ...
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MD-80 operators prepare for ice
Graham Warwick/ATLANTA US OPERATORS OF the McDonnell Douglas (MDC) MD-80 are gearing up for fleet-wide installation of systems designed to prevent the formation of over-wing icing. Two systems have now been approved by the US Federal Aviation Administration as alternative means of compliance with an ...
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Late decisions
Kieran Daly/LONDON Frequency congestion in Europe is giving the future air-navigation system a bad name and delaying its implementation. Progress towards use of the future air-navigation system (FANS) continues to prove slow for regulator and airline alike. Operators and governments remain reluctant to make the ...
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Saginaw ghost
A mystery from the past may have relevance for the present. David Learmount/LONDON When Capt. Harvey "Hoot" Gibson's aircraft, a Trans World Airlines Boeing 727-100, suddenly rolled out of control and dived 32,000ft (10,000m), Gibson had to pull more than 5g before recovering control at ...
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Litton works on GLS for Airbus
LITTON IS WORKING with Airbus Industrie to certificate by December a worldwide non-precision-approach (NPA) capability, using the global-positioning system (GPS), on the A300/A310 and A330/A340. The capability is based on integration of Litton Aero Products' LTN-2001 GPS receiver and LTN-101 Flagship laser inertial-navigation system (INS). Litton says ...
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Maintenance errors cripple A320
AN EXCALIBUR AIRLINES Airbus Industrie A320 was left with four of its five starboard spoilers disabled following a right-outboard-flap change carried out by British Airways maintenance at London Gatwick Airport, says a recent report by the UK Air Accident Investigation Branch. The pilots departed Gatwick on 26 August ...
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X-31A crash: air data suspected
INVESTIGATIONS into the 19 January loss of a Rockwell-Daimler-Benz Aerospace X-31A enhanced fighter-manoeuvrability research aircraft are focusing on the air-data system, say sources close to the project. "There is a possibility that hardware operation of some of the systems may be involved [and] it cannot be excluded that ...
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Martin says APALS order is near
MARTIN MARIETTA expects to announce a launch order in March for "significantly more than 100" Autonomous Precision Approach and Landing Systems (APALS) from an unnamed operator. The company is guaranteeing US certification of the radar-based APALS as equivalent to a Category III instrument-landing system (ILS) by the end ...
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Dornier expects 328-120 approval
DORNIER EXPECTS to receive Joint Aviation Authorities (JAA) certification for its improved 328-120 regional turboprop in May and to deliver the first aircraft shortly afterwards to launch customer Formosa Airlines. The Dornier 328-120 is a further development of the recently certificated -110, offering improved runway performance. The ...
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Nagoya crash victims prepare to sue CAL
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE CRASH VICTIMS' relatives and survivors of the China Air Lines (CAL) Airbus Industrie A300-600 accident on 26 April, 1994, at Nagoya, Japan, say that they are to sue the carrier for pilot error. The action coincides with publication of the first draft of ...
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TEAM spirit returns to Aer Lingus staff
TEAM AER LINGUS reports that it is back in business and beginning to rebuild its third-party maintenance work, following the labour disputes which brought the Irish maintenance operation near to closure in 1994. As part of the 1994 Aer Lingus survival plan, the TEAM workforce had been ...