All Safety News – Page 1476
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The numbers game
For the first time in decades, there is an argument over which company sold the most new airliners in 1994. At headline level the dispute is, of course, irrelevant in a business whose time-scales are so long. Underneath, however, the fact that there is an argument at all, suggests that ...
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Duty times are no threat
Sir - In "Duty bound" (Flight International, 14-20 December, 1994, P32) you say that "...IFALPA [International Federation of Airline Pilots' Associations] is convinced that the proposed European rules are dangerous". It is a nonsense for pilot unions to pretend to be prepared to leave decisions to the Aeromedical ...
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ATR: maybe the FAA got it rightt
Sir - Your article "ATR restricted while FAA examines flight in icing" (Flight International, 16-22 November, 1994, P10) does not mention the opinions of the pilots. Regulatory bodies and aircraft manufacturers seem to favour data from equipment, rather than the opinions of those who fly the aircraft. Perhaps, ...
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Modern-cockpit history
Cathode-ray-tube (CRT) flight-instrument displays and digital-technology flight-management systems arrived in operational airline cockpits only in 1982. Digital fly-by-wire control arrived less than seven years ago, in 1988. Today, however, the instrument displays of the Boeing 767, 757 and Airbus Industrie A310/A300-600 (the order in which the aircraft entered ...
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Airbus cockpit/control milestones
1982 Garuda Indonesian Airlines takes delivery of its uniquely ordered A300B4-200s, the world's only two-crew conventional-cockpit wide-bodied type, which has a fully electro-mechanical (E-M) instrument fit but a "forward-facing crew-cockpit" (FFCC) employing the revolutionary "dark, quiet cockpit" (DQC) design philosophy. In the DQC, selector-switch lights turn off, when a system ...
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Weak demand forces Air Hong Kong to cut fleet
CARGO CARRIER Air Hong Kong has cut its fleet from three to two Boeing 747 freighters as it continues to suffer from poor demand and heavy financial losses. The 747-100F is to be returned early to leasing company GE Capital Aviation, as the carrier is able only to ...
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UK still wants to privatise air traffic control
THE UK CIVIL Aviation Authority is encouraging the Government to press ahead with the privatisation of the nation's National Air Traffic Services, despite the collapse of the first attempt in 1994. CAA chiefs say that the air-traffic-control system has a £100 million-a-year investment requirement, largely for modernisation, which ...
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No worries for Astra operators
Sir - In the article "Astra owners face disc work" (Flight International, 30 November-6 December, P17), it was reported that US Federal Aviation Administration Airworthiness Directive (AD) 94-23-05, had been issued against AlliedSignal TFE731 engines installed on Israel Aircraft Industries Astras. In reporting the technical facts of the ...
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ATC Start-Up
Mexico City's air-traffic-control (ATC) centre has been inaugurated. The Thomson-CSF-supplied Eurocat 2000 system is part of a major contract awarded in 1993, under which a further four centres are scheduled to be opened in the next 18 months. The Mexico City system will receive and process data from eight radar, ...
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Smoother operations
NASA's Kennedy Space Center Shuttle landing runway has been modified to reduce launch delays Tim Furniss/KENNEDY SPACE CENTER Space Shuttle launch delays may be reduced by more than 50% because of extensive modifications to the 4,570m (15,000ft)-long grooved-concrete runway at NASA's Kennedy Space Center (KSC) ...
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Canadian safety chiefs query airline checks
Jim Bagnall/OTTAWA CANADA'S Transportation Safety Board has criticised Transport Canada for failing to ensure that safety deficiencies it had uncovered during routine airline audits were actually fixed. In a report to transport minister, Doug Young, the Board notes that it has investigated 19 aircraft accidents since 1984, ...
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FAA to look at cockpit design
THE US FEDERAL Aviation Administration, is beginning a yearlong study, of modern airliner cockpit-design following concerns raised by recent accidents. It says that, in the light of "several [unspecified] accidents", it is creating a team "...to evaluate current-generation transport-category airplane-cockpit design". The review is to focus ...
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Heathrow hopes for 80 million passengers
LONDON HEATHROW airport is gearing up for a 60% passenger-traffic increase as its owner BAA fires the first shots in the political war for clearance to build a fifth terminal (T5). The public inquiry into the case for T5 starts in May. If BAA's case is defeated, ...
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Air Algerie crash in UK kills five
AN AIR ALGERIE Boeing 737-200 freighter on approach to Coventry Airport in the UK on 21 December, 1994, crashed in woodland nearly 3km (1.6nm) short of runway 23, killing all five people on board. Shortly before impact with the ground at 09.50, the aircraft hit an electricity-cable pylon and clipped ...
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Eurocontrol agrees on central European unit
Julian Moxon/PARIS EUROCONTROL has agreed on the basic details for the creation of a common centre for the control of upper airspace in Austria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovenia and northern Italy. Legal, operational and financial principles for the Central European Air Traffic Services ...
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Pena calls for safety summit
US TRANSPORTATION Secretary Federico Pena is promising an industry/Government safety summit and an airline-industry safety audit. The yet-unscheduled meeting will be chaired by Federal Aviation Administrator David Hinson and will include senior airline management, chief pilots, aircraft manufacturers and FAA/DoT officials. Source: Flight International
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Tough medicine
The FAA's new regulations for commuter airlines will hit regional carriers hard. Graham Warwick/ATLANTA US regional carriers could end up paying dearly for the loss of 83 lives in the two recent American Eagle crashes, which prompted the US Federal Aviation Administration to undertake to ...
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Ariane launches to resume launches in February
ARIANE LAUNCHES are to be resumed in mid-February. Arianespace made the announcement following the release of the findings by the official inquiry into the loss of the Ariane V70 and its PanAmSat 3 payload on 1 December 1994 (Flight International, 14-20 December, 1994). The inquiry found that the ...
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IPA: putting the record straight
Sir - It would be inappropriate for me to comment on the Dan-Air versus British Airways litigation, as we at the Independent Pilots Association (IPA), are not directly involved, but I would like to correct the letter from Captains Archer and Marshall of the British Airline Pilots Association (BALPA), (Flight ...