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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Schweizer RU-38A flight tests to resume in May
Flight-testing of the Schweizer Aircraft RU-38A Twin Condor is set to resume in May now that the US Coast Guard (USCG) has renegotiated its $5.3 million contract with the US aircraft maker. The twin-engine surveillance aircraft project was put in limbo for nearly a year when one of ...
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Boeing expected to agree late change to new 737 flightdeck
Boeing is close to agreeing to airline requests that it replace electro-mechanical standby instruments on the 737-600/ 700/800 flightdeck, with a single, solid-state, liquid-crystal-display (LCD) unit. A final decision is expected when the manufacturer can ascertain whether enough of the units can be supplied to meet planned next-generation ...
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Compressor damage grounds two of BA's 777 fleet
Several General Electric GE90-powered Boeing 777s were temporarily withdrawn from service earlier this month after borescope inspections revealed "light airfoil damage" in the compressor sections of five engines. British Airways said last week that two of its four 777s had been grounded, and it was expecting replacement engines ...
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Lord NVX system quietens DC-9/MD-80 cabin
LORDHASRECEIVED US certification for its NVX active noise-and-vibration control system on the McDonnell Douglas DC-9 and MD-80. The company says that its system is the first to be approved for use on large commercial aircraft, and "...is being considered for several DC-9/MD-80 installation programmes." Approval follows installation of the NVX ...
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American Airlines pilots prepare for strike action
THE ALLIED PILOTS Association (APA), which represents 9,000 American Airlines pilots, has told flightdeck crews to prepare for a strike over wage and contract issues which could begin on 15 February and last for two months. United Airlines' pilots, meanwhile, are considering an overtime ban in a similar dispute. ...
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Airbus and Boeing wait for British Midland decision
British Midland (BM) is close to placing a substantial order for aircraft in the 180-seat class, which will be phased in over the next five years to replace part of its Boeing 737 fleet. The expanding UK airline has hinted for some time that it was considering larger ...
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US airline safety ratings to hit Internet
Safety data on US air carriers are to be put on the Internet by the Federal Aviation Administration, in a bid to make them more accessible to the travelling public. The agency says it will not, however, rank airlines according to their accident records, although information on accidents and some ...