All Ops & safety articles – Page 1332
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Maintenance Directory Part 1, The Americas
MAINTENANCE AND overhaul companies in North and South America are benefiting from the return to profitability of the region's airlines. While cost-cutting measures such as outsourcing main- tenance have slipped down the airlines' priority lists as profits have soared, overhaul companies say that business has improved since the recession's end. ...
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Mars failure
The commission investigating the failure of the Russian Mars '96 mission (Flight International, 27 November-3 December, 1996) has failed to identify the cause, citing 20 possible scenarios focusing primarily on the fourth stage of the Proton launcher, which failed to fire correctly for a second time after reaching initial parking ...
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Flying high in the USA
There seems to be no stopping the US airline industry. Passenger traffic has set new highs throughout the past year and there are few signs of the growth slowing down. Profits have been spectacular. On almost any measure, the year-end results from the US majors are the best ...
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IAI's expanding Commodore moves into SabreTech's Miami site
Commodore Aviation, the overhaul subsidiary of Israel Aircraft Industries (IAI), is expected to complete a deal acquiring the troubled SabreTech's maintenance operation at Miami International Airport within the next two weeks. The IAI unit, which is based at Miami International, will move into SabreTech's much larger site after ...
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Breaking through
Breaking the monopolistic stranglehold of national carriers in Asia has never been easy and, for Asiana Airlines, playing second fiddle to Korean Air (KAL) for the past eight years has proved to be particularly hard going. This situation may be about to change though, as Asiana embarks on an ambitious ...
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Success forces BASIS growth
An Inter-airline safety information exchange (SIE) between users of the British Airways Safety Information System (BASIS) has been so successful that BA may have to subcontract its administration, says the BASIS chief Capt Mike Holtom. The BASIS is an airline-operated personal-computer (PC) database system for recording safety incidents ...
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Attitudes need to be shaken up
Sir - I refer to the article "UK CAA insists on stick-shaker for Falcon 2000" (Flight International, 22-28 January). I am particularly concerned with David Antrobus' attitude that "-The CAA [UK Civil Aviation Authority] is in the JAA [European Joint Aviation Authorities] 'club' and in principle it should ...
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Resolving African ATS difficulties
Sir - The editorial "Outside control" (Flight International, 8-14 January) raises important issues. Contrary to some assertions, the situation in large areas of the African continent is mainly stable, with air-traffic services (ATS) being provided to a satisfactory level for today's operations. There remain, however, flight ...
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Two African regionals suffer fatal crashes
An Air Senegal British Aerospace 748 Mk2A crashed just after take-off from Tambacounda, Senegal on 1 February, killing three crew and 20 passengers aboard. The flight-data recorder and cockpit-voice recorder have been recovered, and representatives of the manufacturer and the type certificating authority, the UK Civil Aviation Authority, ...
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747 wiring checks
Precautionary checks are to be carried out on Boeing 747 100/200 wiring conduits to see if there is any chafing on wiring leading to fuel-boost pumps, says a US Federal Aviation Administration alert services bulletin. The bulletin specifies checks within 120 days. The agency confirms that the measure is a ...
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FAA warns on third-party 727 freighter conversions
The US Federal Aviation Administration has asked air-cargo carriers to suggest how best to limit operations of their Boeing 727 freighters, converted by third parties. The aviation agency says that restrictions will be issued because the 727 modifications "-contain design features which apparently do not comply with the Federal Aviation ...
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Alitalia pulls plug on Fokker 70s
Alitalia is attempting to return its five leased Fokker 70s to the bankrupt Fokker operation, after failing in a bid to re-lease them to low-cost Italian regional carrier Alpi Eagles. The two airlines concluded a codeshare deal late in 1996 which included the transfer of the Fokker 70s. ...
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Airbus fits switch guards after A340 hydraulic incident
Following an incident involving a Singapore Airlines (SIA) Airbus Industrie A340 over Australia, the aircraft manufacturer says that it is to put switch-guards over engine hydraulic-valve controls in the A340 cockpit. Sudden pitch changes caused by an incorrect switch selection by the crew injured 11 people, according to ...
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Japanese firms are cool on Airbus A3XX co-operation plans
Japanese aerospace manufacturers are unenthusiastic about the idea of co-operating with Airbus Industrie to develop the consortium's proposed A3XX high-capacity airliner, despite Boeing's recent decision to shelve its rival 747-500/500X . Airbus has been signalling renewed interest in enlisting Japanese support for the A3XX, this time during a ...
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China raises $250 million
China Eastern Airlines has completed the initial public offering of 32% of its shares on the New York and Hong Kong stock exchanges, raising about $250 million from the sale. The flotation appears to have been reasonably well received, with the offer 22 times oversubscribed in Hong Kong. ...
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Cameras provide more information
Sir - I would like to clarify some statements attributed to me in the article "Caught on camera" (Flight International, 1-7 January, P35). DM Aerospace is concentrating on the use of internal and external video cameras as airliner-safety enhancements. We have developed an aircraft video flight recorder in ...
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Why no simulators for ground staff?
Sir - I believe that there should be some form of simulator or fixed-base trainer instruction and testing of ground engineers who perform daily engine power runs in expensive aircraft. Why do we place such emphasis on training pilots and flight engineers and yet ignore the needs of ...
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Transponders for CIS
Spurred by the mid-air collision between a Saudi Arabian Boeing 747-100 and a Kazakh Ilyushin Il-76 in November 1996 near New Delhi, India, the US Federal Aviation Administration is investigating the feasibility of employing used transponders to reduce the risk of collision. The shelved transponders were those replaced by traffic-alert ...
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Yak-40 crash-lands
The pilot of a Krasnoyarsk Airlines Yakovlev Yak-40 successfully force-landed his aircraft in a Siberian field 28km (15nm) from his destination on 29 January. There was no injury to the four crew and 20 passengers on board as the aircraft landed in white-out conditions with 400m (1,300ft) visibility in snow. ...
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Weather predictor
Raytheon has been selected by the US Federal Aviation Administration to install equipment enabling weather hazards in the airspace within about 97km (60m) of an airport to be predicted. The Integrated Terminal Weather System (ITWS) will generate predictions of weather phenomena, such as microbursts. It will also warn of the ...