All Safety News – Page 171
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Schedule pressure caused Lion 737, A330 wing clip
Pressure for a Lion Air Boeing 737-800 crew to beat an airport curfew in Manado led to a misjudgement in maintaining distance separation with a an Airbus A330-300, leading to a ground collision with the widebody while taxiing at Jakarta Soekarno-Hatta International airport on 1 May 2016.
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LHT eyes part-sale of Aviatar digital services platform
Lufthansa Technik is planning a part-divestment of its digital services platform, Aviatar, in an effort to establish a "neutral" system for operators to access and analyse aircraft onboard data.
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Analysis
SNAPSHOT: Commercial fleet summary September 2018
Information from Flight Fleets Analyzer shows that the global in-service commercial fleet now totals just over 29,300 units, of which more than 26,900 are deployed in a passenger role.
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Tigerair Australia drops SIAEP after defect found on 737
Tigerair Australia has stopped sending aircraft for heavy maintenance at SIA Engineering Philippines after a Boeing 737-800 was grounded for just over three weeks following a heavy check at the MRO operator's Clark facility.
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Sochi overrun 737 landed nearly halfway down runway
Russian investigators have disclosed that the Utair Boeing 737-800 which overran at Sochi touched down almost halfway along the runway.
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OpinionOPINION: Can aviation overcome drone collision risk?
As of January this year, there had been just seven reported collisions between drones and manned aircraft globally, none of which were in the UK.
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OpinionOPINION: Interjet's sweet SSJ100 deal turns sour
Mexican airline Interjet's attempt to step back from remarks that it is considering selling its Sukhoi Superjet 100 fleet is the latest development in a five-year-long service history that has been marked by operational challenges.
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Iberia examines Trent XWB in-flight shutdown
Iberia is investigating the cause of an in-flight shutdown involving a Rolls-Royce Trent XWB engine on one of the Spanish flag carrier's Airbus A350s.
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PICTURE: Axle fatigue crack led Ryanair 737 to lose nose-wheel
UK investigators have determined that a fatigue crack in the nose-gear axle of a Ryanair Boeing 737-800 caused one of the wheels to detach on take-off from London Stansted.
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Peach to resume all international flights at Osaka Kansai
Peach will resume all international services from Osaka Kansai International airport on 14 September, as more of the airport’s facilities recover from floods that hit it on 4 September.
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Ryanair calls for change to Irish law in hope of appeasing unions
Ryanair is lobbying the Irish government to change tax regulations such that the airline could meet a key demand of unions to contract staff under the employment laws of the country in which they reside.
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Crashed Let 410 had recently returned from lengthy storage
The Let 410UVP (UR-TWO) destroyed in a 9 September landing accident in South Sudan had only recently re-entered service after more than a decade in storage, Flight Fleets Analyzer shows.
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Analysis
ANALYSIS: Why fuller 'big data' benefits remain unrealised
United Airlines executive Tom Romanowski envisions a day when the voluminous sensor data generated by modern aircraft flows in real time to his team's data-crunching computers.
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OpenSkies retires final Boeing after last 767 flight to Newark
The Boeing 767 operated by IAG's Paris Orly-based brand OpenSkies has completed its final transatlantic service and been withdrawn from service.
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NTSB investigates uncontained Delta 757 engine failure
The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) is investigating reports that a Delta Air Lines Boeing 757-200 suffered an uncontained engine failure as it departed Atlanta on 5 September.
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PICTURE: Copa to formally unveil 737 Max 9 on 18 September
Copa Airlines will put its new Boeing 737 Max 9 into service on 18 September, having taken delivery of its first aircraft at the end of August.
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Fort Myers-bound A320 lines up with wrong airport
Air traffic control communications have revealed that an American Airlines Airbus A320 erroneously lined up for an approach to Page Field airport in Florida, rather than the nearby Fort Myers.
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Floods ahead of typhoon force Kansai airport to close
Widespread flooding across the airfield caused by storm surges forced Osaka’s Kansai International airport to suspend operations at noon, local time, on 4 September.
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NATS dismantles Ryanair's claims over Stansted delays
UK air navigation service NATS has rejected budget carrier Ryanair’s claims that air traffic control operations favour London’s Heathrow and Gatwick airports, to the detriment of Stansted.
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Iberia retrieves A340-600 damaged in Quito hard landing
Iberia has retrieved an Airbus A340-600 damaged in a hard landing at Quito, but has yet to determine when the aircraft will re-enter airline service.