All articles by David Kaminski-Morrow – Page 398
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UK's loss-making Plymouth City Airport to shut
Owners of the UK's regional Plymouth City Airport are to close the loss-making facility by the end of this year.
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NewsPICTURE: AF447 flight-data recorder found but memory unit missing
Search teams trying to locate the flight recorders from Air France flight AF447 have located the flight-data recorder, but not the critical memory unit
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Late touchdown mystifies Spitfire crash investigators
Norwegian investigators are still struggling to understand why a top Swedish display pilot overshot the threshold of an airfield runway in a Supermarine...
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NewsInvestigators close in on sunken AF447's flight recorders
French investigators are confident that they have identified the most likely area of wreckage in which to find the flight recorders of the Air France Airbus...
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Overrun Air India 737 could have stopped despite late landing
Analysis of the Air India Express Boeing 737-800 accident at Mangalore last May has shown that, despite the long landing, the jet could still have stopped...
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New volcano procedures would have trebled permitted flights
Preliminary results from the European exercise to assess revised response procedures to a repetition of the 2010 volcanic crisis indicate they would provide...
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NewsAir India 737 captain deeply asleep shortly before fatal approach
Indian investigators have cited a lethal combination of sleep inertia and over-dominance by the captain as having led to the fatal overrun by an Air India...
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Operator of crashed Manx2 flight faced possible grounding
Spanish authorities have disclosed that they took preliminary action last month to suspend the air operator's certificate of Flightline, the carrier linked...
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Airbus resists pressure to scale up A350-1000
Airbus is not intending to change the size of the A350-1000 as it heads towards definition freeze for the twinjet by the end of this year, although it has...
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Mozambique is latest state to face EU blacklist ban
All carriers from Mozambique, including flag-carrier LAM, are being placed on the European Union's blacklist of airlines, in addition to a pair of Boeing...
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Three-way airprox over Italy followed slack ATC handover
Lack of situational awareness after controllers changed shift led to a serious three-way air proximity incident in the vicinity of Milan nearly two years ago, Italian investigators have concluded.
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NewsATR 72 in-flight upset traced to rudder maintenance fault
Investigators are warning ATR operators that a crucial rudder component could be installed incorrectly in the turboprop, after the crew of an Air Contractors...
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NewsAsh detector team scouts volcanic zones for trial
Volcano activity in the Pacific 'ring of fire' region is being monitored as a potential testing ground for an airborne ash-detection system touted by budget...
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BAE to close historic Filton airfield
BAE Systems is to close the historic Filton airfield at the end of next year, after a review concluded that it had no long-term economic prospects.
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NewsWing clearance in frame after A380 jolts CRJ
This month's taxiing collision between an Air France Airbus A380 and a Comair Bombardier CRJ700 is likely to spark debate over pilot awareness of the type's...
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NewsCRJ stall sparks clash over automating anti-ice warning
Norwegian investigators have clashed with Canadian regulators by pressing for automated warnings to activate Bombardier CRJ200 wing anti-ice systems, after...
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SAS backs away from CSeries as A320neo emerges
SAS Group has ditched the Bombardier CSeries for its near-term fleet modernisation, but remains open to the Airbus A320neo as an option for replacing its...
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NewsVIDEO: Air France A380 hits CRJ while taxiing at JFK
Extraordinary video images have emerged of an Air France Airbus A380 colliding with a Bombardier CRJ during taxiing at New York JFK. Air France has...
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SAS renewal plan leaves door open to A320neo
SAS Group is considering the Airbus A320neo as part of the fleet-renewal programme outlined today for its three Scandinavian bases.
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NewsSAS to lease new 737s and A320s as it phases out MD-80s
Scandinavian Airlines is to lease up to 17 Boeing 737-700/800 aircraft, and take additional Airbus A320s, as part of its effort to bring greater type uniformity...