As a part of its plan to meet a need to double the present number of airline pilots within 10 years, China is to place some of its ab initio flightcrew training abroad. The Civil Aviation University of China (CAUC) has signed a partnership agreement with Lufthansa Flight Training's InterCockpit to expand its pilot-training capacity, and the first CAUC students will arrive in Frankfurt, Germany in "mid-2005", says InterCockpit.
Source: Flight International
Investigators are probing an in-flight oscillation at cruise altitude which affected a South African Airways Airbus A330-300 operating a domestic service. The aircraft – flying from Cape Town to Johannesburg on 27 October – had been cruising at 41,000ft when it started to oscillate in pitch, between nose-up and nose-down. ...
Garuda Indonesia has confirmed the appointment of Wamildan Tsani Panjaitan – the former interim chief exeutive of low-cost operator Lion Air – as its new CEO.
Pilots of a Boeing 737-800 did not notice that the aircraft’s bleed-air system was not active before the jet took off from Manchester, triggering a cabin-altitude warning that remained active for over 40min. UK investigators found that the bleed-air switches had incorrectly been left off during air-conditioning pack maintenance, and ...
