All Safety News – Page 427
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NTSB to FAA: decouple controller duty
US air traffic controllers should be prohibited from providing supervisory oversight while performing operational air traffic duties, the National Transportation Safety Board is recommending.
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Unseen loading error led Qantas A330 to depart overweight
Investigators have determined that a failure to detect a discrepancy in loading documentation led a Qantas Airbus A330-300 to depart above maximum weight...
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NewsSearch locates Air France flight AF447 crash site
French investigators are confident that they have located the crash site of the Air France Airbus A330-200 which was lost over the South Atlantic nearly...
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NewsSouthwest cancels 300 flights to inspect 737s
Southwest Airlines on Saturday cancelled 300 flights after one of its Boeing 737-300s suffered a depressurisation event triggered by a hole discovered in the top of the aircraft after it diverted and landed in Yuma, Arizona.
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NewsAeroVironment investigates cause of Global Observer crash
AeroVironment is investigating what caused its ultra-long-endurance Global Observer to crash 18h into a test flight at Edwards AFB ...
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NewsSouthwest grounds 80 737s after jet holed in flight
US low-cost carrier Southwest Airlines is to ground over 80 Boeing 737 aircraft pending immediate inspections after a fuselage hole was discovered in a jet...
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NewsMedvedev criticises competitiveness of Russian civil aircraft
Russian president Dmitry Medvedev has criticised the country's commercial aircraft industry for its poor production output and its competitive capabilities.
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Airbus and Interjet set to complete biofuel flight
Mexican low cost carrier Interjet and Airbus today plan to operate the first jatropha-based biofuel flight in Mexico with an Airbus A320.
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Dagestan Tu-154 crash inquiry rules out fuel quality
Russian investigators have ruled out poor fuel quality as a contributor to the fatal Dagestan Airlines Tupolev Tu-154 crash at Moscow last December.
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AirAsia expects to convert some A320 orders to A320neo
Malaysian budget carrier AirAsia has indicated that it expects to convert some of its existing Airbus A320 orders to the re-engined A320neo, although Airbus...
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Bombardier and Comac work to define parameters of new tie-up
Speculation that a long-range strategic relationship between Bombardier of Canada and China's Comac aims to challenge the Boeing-Airbus duopoly is fading as the realities of determining how the companies plan to grow their partnership sink in.
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NewsIndiGo selects P&W to power up to 150 A320neos
In a major coup for Pratt & Whitney's geared turbofan, A320neo launch customer, Indian low cost carrier IndiGo, is to announce it has selected the PW1100G...
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NewsTwo new F-35s set to join flight-test fleet
Two more Lockheed Martin F-35s are set to join the flight-test fleet as programme officials work to recover from a setback on 9 March.
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Ryanair imposes passenger levy to pay for compensation costs
Ryanair is to impose a new levy on passengers to offset the cost of compensation mandated under Euroepan Union legislation for delays or cancellations of...
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NTSB tells business aviation to sharpen up its act
The US National Transportation Safety Board has issued a list of recommendations that effectively tell business aviation operators and pilots to smarten up their act.
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NewsAirbus examines possible counter to erroneous airspeed data
Airbus has disclosed that it has been studying a concept to safeguard airspeed information in the event of unreliable air data being received through the...
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NewsQantas rolls out cost-cutting plan
Qantas Airways will cut capacity and drop management positions as part of a plan to slash costs in the wake of rising fuel prices and several natural disasters.
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Airbus signs biofuel agreement with Iberia
Airbus has entered into an agreement with Iberia and the Spanish Government to examine the possibility of establishing a biofuel production chain that would...
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EFW receives first A320 for freighter conversion
EADS's specialist modification division EFW has received its first Airbus A320, from AerCap, at its site in Dresden ahead of the twinjet's passenger-to-freighter (P2F) conversion.