All Ops & safety articles – Page 1345
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The sequence of events leading to the mid-air collision
The Boeing 747, one of eight Series 168Bs (ie, the -100B) operated by Saudi Arabian, departed New Delhi's Indira Gandhi International Airport at around 18.33 local, and headed on a westerly course (270¹) from the Delhi VOR navigation beacon (DPN). The 747, which seems to have been operating ...
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Collins
A demonstration flight in Rockwell-Collins' Sabreliner testbed, equipped with a prototype of its Pro Line 21 display for the Raytheon Premier I, illustrates the progress made since the system was launched a year ago. The first impression of the display is of solid colours and crisp symbols against a smooth ...
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Blanc insists on fleet mixture
Julian Moxon/Paris Air France president Christian Blanc has made it clear to the French Government that he wants to order a mix of Boeing 777s and Airbus A340s as part of the flag carrier's fleet-renewal programme. Up to ten of each type are likely to be ...
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ValuJet fire tests begin
Federal air-safety investigators have attempted to re-create the fire which brought down a ValuJet Airlines McDonnell Douglas DC-9-30 on 11 May in Florida. Cardboard boxes of oxygen-generating canisters and inflated tyres were loaded into the cargo hold of a fuselage in an attempt to duplicate the accident. Some of the ...
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Russia will ditch automatic docking system on Soyuz
Tim Furniss/LONDON The Russian space industry's cash crisis has claimed another victim. Future manned Soyuz TM spacecraft will no longer be fitted with the Kurs S-band automatic docking system. The spacecraft is a key part of the Russian manned space programme and is used to shuttle ...
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Without authority
On the question of the status of the European Joint Aviation Authorities (JAA) and of Eurocontrol, the decision to fudge the issue of by making them "official international bodies" but not single European authorities will, like most similar compromises, do more to salve bureaucratic consciences than to solve European problems. ...
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AI(R) seeks lease financing
PaulLewis/ZHUHAI AERO INTERNATIONAL (Regional) (AI(R)) is asking competing engine manufacturers to provide lease financing for the yet-to-be-launched AIR 70 regional jet, in exchange for being selected to supply the new aircraft's powerplant. The European consortium is asking the three rival engine suppliers to assist with up ...
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FSF launches final assault on 'killer' CFIT accident rate
David Learmount/DUBAI THE FLIGHT SAFETY Foundation (FSF) is this week launching the final phase of its attack on the airline industry's worst killer-accident category, controlled flight into terrain (CFIT), insisting that it intends to halve the annual number of CFIT accidents by 1998. Over the last ...
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In-flight Trent 700 failure forces Cathay A330 back to Saigon
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE Cathay Pacific Airways is investigating the involuntary in-flight shutdown on 11 November of a Rolls-Royce Trent 700 engine, which forced the crew of one of its Airbus A330-300s to return to Saigon shortly after take-off. The engine suffered a suspected internal gearbox failure as ...
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Reasons for A3XX wing arrangement
Sir - Airbus Industrie is glad to see the interest that the A3XX is creating among Flight International readers. This is reflected in the recent proposals for the wing arrangement which we have read in your magazine. Since the mid-1980s, during the development of the A3XX, various configurations ...
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Chinese Allies
AlliedSignal Aerospace has as signed a series of preliminary agreements with Aviation Industries of China (AVIC) and Shanghai Avionics (SAVIC) to expand its activities in China. It is discussing co-producing systems, including a traffic-alert and collision-avoidance system, enhanced ground-proximity-warning system, ACARS and general-aviation avionics. AlliedSignal is also discussing the possibility ...
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Report slams world pilot standards
David Learmount/LONDON A damning indictment of pilot training standards in the world's air-transport industry is revealed in the official accident report on the fatal 6 February Birgenair Boeing 757 accident near Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic. The investigators say that basic internationally accepted requirements for pilot-training standards have fallen ...
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Volga passengers
The Russian heavyweight cargo specialist Volga-Dnepr Airlines has begun scheduled passenger services between its base in Ulyanovsk and Moscow. The carrier is flying 30-seater Yakovlev Yak-40s on the route, leased from the Ulyanovsk-based regional airline JSC Simbirsk Aero, which ceased flying in September because of debts of over 14 billion ...
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Safeguards are needed on reporting
Sir - The leader "No-gain pain" (Flight International, 16-22 October) was interesting reading. It is important to protect the identities of those accused by confidential incident-reporting systems. Most systems make strenuous efforts to protect the identity of accusers, because otherwise the flow of information would dry up. ...
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Langkawi to expand as training school
Langkawi Helicopter Services (LHS) is set to expand following the purchase of 30% of the firm by Amanah Saham Anak Langkawi. Chief executive Mohammad Abdullah says that LHS will set up a helipad and helicopter-training school in Langkawi on land near the airport provided by the Langkawi Development Authority. ...
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Reverser suspected in TAM Fokker crash
Pilot exclamations on the cockpit voice recorder of the crashed TAM Brazilian Fokker 100 (Flight International, 6-12 November) have led investigators to suspect that the No 2 engine thrust-reverser may have operated in flight, say sources close to the investigation. This is supposed to be impossible, because the thrust-reverser actuators ...
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Canadian future is threatened if cost cuts are not endorsed
Brian Dunn/MONTREAL Canadian Airlines International could be forced out of business by the turn of the year if employees and shareholders fail to endorse a sweeping programme of cost-cutting being proposed by the management, warns president Kevin Benson. The cost cuts, which are planned to add ...
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German buyers thwart IPTN hopes for stake in ASL
Three anonymous German investors have emerged as buyers for the former Daimler-Benz Aerospace (DASA) maintenance subsidiary Aircraft Services Lemwerder (ASL), ending plans by Indonesia's Industri Pesawat Terbang Nusantara (IPTN) to take a 25.1% stake. Two local investors from Lower Saxony, where ASL is based, and a third from ...
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Thomson and Siemens discussions on air-traffic management venture make progress
Talks between Thomson-CSF and Siemens on a joint venture which would create the "biggest air-traffic management [ATM] enterprise in Europe and the second-biggest in the world" are expected to be concluded in "several months", says Siemens. The French and German concerns already have several joint industry programmes and ...
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GAO reports on US airline safety
New US airlines suffer higher accident rates than those of established carriers, Congressional investigators say. Start-up carriers during their first five years of operation were also shown to have higher incident- and enforcement-action rates. The US General Accounting Office says that the analysis highlights the need for better ...