All Ops & safety articles – Page 116
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AnalysisAviation's recruitment challenge
The world’s largest flightcrew instruction company, CAE, says the training industry is theoretically capable of churning out licensed pilots in sufficient numbers to meet unprecedented future airline demands. But, it says, attracting suitable candidates in sufficient numbers is going to be a challenge, and a lack of affordable finance for training is a large part of the problem.
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Samoa Airways to wet-lease 737-800 from Malindo
Samoa Airways is finalising an agreement to wet-lease a Boeing 737-800 from Malindo Air to operate its jet routes owing to the global grounding of the 737 Max fleet.
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Major S7 shareholder Fileva killed in German air crash
One of Russian carrier S7 Airlines’ key shareholders, Nataliya Fileva, has been killed in a light aircraft accident in Germany.
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Harbour Air aims to lead electric flight with Beaver seaplanes
Some old planes in Canada may be getting very new engines, and could become the first electric-powered passenger aircraft.
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TUI sources capacity as it outlines impact of Max grounding
Tour operator TUI is expecting a €200 million ($225 million) impact on earnings from the Boeing 737 Max grounding, as it puts in place a contingency plan to ensure sufficient summer capacity.
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Stick-shaker triggered as 747 slowed to insufficient hold speed
Investigators have determined that a Qantas Boeing 747-400’s stick-shaker activated when the aircraft entered a holding pattern but slowed to a speed much lower than that required.
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Wow Air runs out of time to seal crucial financing
Indications that Icelandic carrier Wow Air was facing an end-game had emerged when the airline cancelled several inbound services from North America.
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Wow Air ceases operations and cancels all flights
Icelandic budget carrier Wow Air has ceased operations and cancelled all flights, hours after suspending services while it attempted a last-ditch financial rescue.
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Wow Air postpones flights ahead of new investment deal
Icelandic budget carrier Wow Air has postponed all flights on 28 March as it finalises an equity raising with an unidentified group of investors.
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US Senate scrutinises FAA on Boeing 737 Max oversight
Top aviation regulators during a US Senate committee hearing defended their scrutiny of pilot training, aircraft certification and restriction against making safety features optional purchases while lawmakers vowed to pass legislation to sharpen safety oversight following two fatal crashes of Boeing-built 737 Max aircraft.
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Boeing unveils 737 Max software changes as grounding continues
Boeing has disclosed details of a software update to its 737 Max that the company says eliminates the chance erroneous data can cause onboard computers to place the aircraft into a dive.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: Five key themes for Big Data in aerospace
The concept of big data and predictive maintenance has echoed around industry boardrooms for several years. In its most ideal form, massive streams of data are pumped from aircraft in real time. On the ground, networks equipped with artificial intelligence (AI) use machine learning to make sense of it all ...
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Qantas hails successful first year of Perth-London flights
One year since it opreated its first nonstop Perth-London flight, Qantas has lauded it as a major success for the company and Australian tourism.
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Boeing engages pilots, technicians and regulators on 737 Max
Boeing has started holding information sessions with pilots, technical leaders and regulators on the Boeing 737 Max as it works towards having the global grounding of the fleet lifted.
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Ethiopian chief vows 'transparent' co-operation in Max probe
Ethiopian Airlines group chief executive Tewolde Gebremariam has pledged “full and transparent” co-operation with the inquiry into the fatal loss of a Boeing 737 Max 8, and has underscored the airline’s faith in the US airframer.
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Investment consortium Triton to take over Inmarsat
Aeronautical satellite communications specialist Inmarsat has agreed to the terms of a takeover offer by newly-established joint-venture company Triton Bidco.
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Kalitta 747's engine damaged after striking snow bank
Canadian investigators have disclosed that a Boeing 747 freighter suffered engine damage after it manoeuvred away from its taxiway after landing at Moncton.
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Jetstar A320 thrust reverse problem traced back to missed pin
A Jetstar Airbus A320 was unable to deploy its thrust reversers during a landing at Sydney on 20 September 2018, after engineers forgot to remove a maintenance pin during an earlier maintenance task.
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Second Iranian Fokker in three days suffers gear failure
Iranian investigators are probing the second serious landing-gear incident involving a Fokker 100 in the space of three days after an Iran Aseman aircraft diverted to Tehran when its undercarriage only partially deployed.
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CommutAir ERJ landed off-runway after misaligned approaches
US investigators have disclosed that a CommutAir Embraer ERJ-145 had been aligned to the right of the runway during two approaches to Presque Isle airport, before an excursion on touchdown.