All Ops & safety articles – Page 1345
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Ayres wants more turboprop power for Loadmaster
AYRES WANTS more powerful engines for the LM200 Loadmaster freighter and it is talking to LHTEC and Pratt & Whitney Canada about how they can satisfy the new requirement. The agricultural-aircraft maker, based in Albany, Georgia, launched the Loadmaster cargo aircraft in November 1996 with an order for ...
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EC Commissioner warns of curbs on 'exclusive' deals
Europe's competition commissioner, Karel Van Miert, has warned that curbs will have to be placed on Boeing's use of "exclusive" aircraft deals as the price of approval for the group's planned merger with McDonnell Douglas (MDC) Van Miert says that the European Commission (EC) will present Boeing and ...
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Schweizer plans to resume Twin Condor testing
Flight testing of the Schweizer Aircraft RU-38A Twin Condor will resume this month, and the twin-engined surveillance aircraft will be delivered to the US Coast Guard once flight evaluation is completed, around October/November. The programme has been in limbo for nearly a year since one of two operational ...
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Hands off!
No matter what the fine print of European legislation may say, the proposed merger of two US companies is not a European matter. What is a European matter is how those merged companies go on to behave in the market in Europe or, indeed, the world. The response of a ...
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Japanese juggling
The Japanese airline industry is facing its biggest shake-up in more than 40 years, as the result of domestic deregulation and growing international competition. In response, the country's two leading carriers, Japan Airlines (JAL) and All Nippon Airways (ANA), have unveiled new corporate five-year plans. A combination of ...
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Marketplace
++ Canadian charter carrier Royal Airlines has acquired an ex-Emirates Airbus A310-300 from Airbus Industrie, bringing its fleet to three A310s. Emirates is trading its A300/A310 fleet to Airbus as part of its order for A330-200s. ++ Kitty Hawk is to operate two additional Boeing 727-200 freighters on behalf of ...
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Merpati shake-up precedes privatisation
Merpati Nusantara Airlines is going through a major shake-up of its senior management, in the lead-up to final separation from its parent, flag carrier Garuda Indonesia, and eventual privatisation. Three new executive directors have been appointed to the struggling regional carrier. Desmod Ismael is appointed as new financial ...
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The NERC project
The NERC project was started in 1987, with the establishment of a programme directorate within NATS. The first phase involved the selection of a suitable site for the building which would house the new centre, and in 1990 the current location, at Swanwick, near Southampton, was picked. UK ...
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Dassault
Dassault Falcon Jet has promoted six members of its flight-operations department at Teterboro Airport, South Hackensack, New Jersey. Jerry Tritt becomes chief pilot - technical, responsible for technical and regulatory matters. David DeAngelis has been promoted to chief pilot for operations. His remit includes safety, standardisation, the flight-operations manual and ...
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Regional Airlines prepares to accept EMB-145 after delays
The Embraer EMB-145 regional jet was expected to gain European Joint Aviation Authorities (JAA)certification on 12 May, around six months later than originally planned, clearing the way for European launch customer Regional Airlines to put the type into service in early June. The delay was caused by JAA ...
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China Eastern beats its 1996 profits forecast
China Eastern Airlines managed to post better-than-forecast profits for 1996, providing some good news in the wake of its February listing on the Hong Kong and New York stock exchanges. In its prospectus for the flotation (the first by a Chinese carrier), China Eastern had warned that declining ...
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UK AAIB investigates BA services with damaged 747-400
The UK Air Accident Investigation Branch (AAIB) has launched an investigation into an accident in which a British Airways Boeing 747-400 sustained significant damage in a "heavy landing", but continued to be flown on two revenue flights before the extent of the damage to the aircraft was realised. ...
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Trent 700 suffers another in-flight shutdown
Rolls-Royce has again suffered an in-flight shutdown of a Trent 700 turbofan engine fitted to an Airbus Industrie A330 twinjet - the third such occurrence in less than six months. In the latest incident, on 6 May, the No 2 engine on a Cathay Pacific Airways A330 ran ...
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JT8D failures studied
The US National Transportation Safety Board is investigating an uncontained failure of a Pratt & Whitney JT8D engine which occurred to a Northwest Airlines McDonnell Douglas DC-9 during take-off from Memphis on 24 April. The take-off was aborted safely. It is the latest of a series of incidents involving the ...
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AASI begins revised Jetcruzer stretch
Advanced Aerodynamics and Structures (AASI) has begun work at its Long Beach factory in California on the stretched Jetcruzer 500P, a pressurised high-speed version of the original Jetcruzer 450. "It will be pressurised to 30,000ft [9,150m] with a good high-altitude engine," says AASI executive vice-president Gene Comfort. "We're ...
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Crash breaks China's accident-free run
A fatal China Southern Airlines Boeing 737-300 crash has broken an accident-free run of nearly three years by China's rapidly growing air-transport industry. The aircraft (B-2925), from China Southern's Shenzhen branch, was on flight from Chongqing to Shenzhen International Airport near Hong Kong, on 8 May, when, because of stormy ...
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American restructures Boeing fleet deal after delays
American Airlines has restructured its massive fleet-replacement deal with Boeing, following the delay caused by the recent pilots' dispute and the ratification of the agreement on its regional-jet operations. The biggest impact of the nearly six-month delay has been on next-generation 737 deliveries, the first of which have ...
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India/China prepare to sign air agreement
India and China are set to sign a new air-services agreement (ASA), paving the way for the first direct flights by their national airlines between the two countries. The agreement is expected to be signed on 21 May during a visit to Chinese capital Beijing by an Indian ...
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TAP chooses Collins MMR for Airbuses
TAP-Air Portugal has selected the Collins GLU-920 multi-mode receiver (MMR)to equip its recently ordered fleet of 16 Airbus A319s and six A320s. The MMR is a single unit designed to ease precision approaches using the instrument-and microwave-landing-systems, and the global-positioning system. The 22 aircraft, deliveries of which start ...
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US Airways cuts out loss-making routes
US AIRWAYS is eliminating unprofitable routes and grounding 22 aircraft in what could be the first step towards shrinking the nation's sixth-largest airline to a regional carrier. Stephen Wolf, the airline's chairman, has also warned that unless he has concessions from labour unions before 30 September, he will ...