All Ops & safety articles – Page 1368
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US ATA plans to establish safety-information exchange
US airlines will have a prototype system for the exchange of safety information operational within a month if predictions by US Air Transport Association (ATA) vice-president operations Al Prest are realised. The aim is to build a database of safety-incident information, which will be large enough to enable ...
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The case for use of secondary radar
Sir - It seems incredible that aircraft using the same airspace still have altimeters calibrated in differing units and that "international" airports do not have secondary radar. Insurers do not seem to be interested, especially, given the large claims involved when, for example, there is a mid-air collision. ...
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Emergency-exit changes foreshadowed
David Learmount/LONDON Emergency escape hatches on commercial aircraft used in Europe may have to be modified to make them easier and quicker to open, if the findings from a new UK study are implemented. This could lead to fleet retrofit requirements as well as new-build changes if the ...
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Corporate crash
Four Australians, including two senior executives from one of Papua New Guinea's most prominent companies, were killed on 9 December when their corporate Piper Navajo crashed and burned while approaching Papua New Guinea's Porgera gold mine. One passenger survived with severe burns. Source: Flight International
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Factory crash
Sixteen of the 17 aircraft occupants and a factory worker were killed on 7 December when an IPTN-built CASA 212 twin-turboprop regional airliner crashed near the South Kalimantan capital of Banjarmasin, Indonesia. The crew reported difficulties, shortly after take-off and aircraft fire, was reported by witnesses on the ground. The ...
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The disadvantages of supersonic travel
Sir - A 350t, 250-seat supersonic transport (SST), more than twice the size of the Aerospatiale/ British Aerospace Concorde was mentioned in an advertisement (Flight International, 4-10 September). You reported a similar concept from NASA of the USA (Flight International, 17-23 April). Could I place these concepts in relation to ...
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Early work stations
Lockheed Martin Air Traffic Management has delivered initial next-generation controller workstations ten months ahead of schedule to the Seattle air-route traffic-control centre (ARTCC). Seattle is the first of 21 sites, which will receive the Display System Replacement (DSR) air-traffic-control (ATC) equipment. The workstation replaces aging ATC hardware. The early delivery ...
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US schools fear GPS shortfall
Graham Warwick/ATLANTA The US flight-training industry fears that a problem may be emerging because students trained on older aircraft, which have no satellite-navigation equipment, are unfamiliar with the global-positioning system (GPS). The US National Air Transportation Association (NATA), representing flight schools, has appealed for information ...
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First A330-200 enters production
Max Kingsley-Jones/LONDON Components for the first Airbus A330-200 are being fabricated at plants around Europe, with final assembly scheduled to begin at Toulouse in March 1997. The 256-seat, 11,800km (6,400nm)-range derivative was launched in November 1995. Thirty-one orders have been announced to date. The first wingset ...
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CFM56-7B passes final blade-out examination
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES A full blade-out test was successfully completed on CFM International's CFM56-7B turbofan at Villaroche, France, on 2 December, just six days before the unveiling of the first of the next-generation Boeing 737 series for which the engine is designed. The engine was ...
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Boeing looks to increase 777IGW take-off weight
Paul Lewis/SEATTLE Boeing is discussing a further increase in the 777-200IGW's maximum take-off weight (MTOW) as an interim step towards a new ultra-long-range derivative of the twinjet. The US manufacturer is considering offering a 777-200IGW+ version for entry into commercial service from 1998 onwards, says ...
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MD-87 certificated with PATS tanks
MD-87 certificated with PATS tanks US Fuel-tank manufacturer PATS has gained a US Federal Aviation Administration supplemental type certificate for its long-range auxiliary fuel system for the McDonnell Douglas MD-87 twinjet. The PATS system consists of ten auxiliary fuel tanks located in the aircraft's lower ...
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Oil leak is blamed for Delta accident
The loss of one of Europe's few remaining airworthy Douglas DC-3s off the Netherlands on 25 September was caused by an engine-oil leak, say Dutch aviation authorities. The DC-3 was owned by the Dutch Dakota Association. The pilot was unable to feather the propeller of the failing engine ...
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ADC grounded
Nigerian airline ADC has been grounded by the authorities following the 7 November Boeing 727-200 crash near Lagos in which 141 people were killed (Flight International, 13-19 November, P6). The Aviation Ministry says that grounding is necessary because continued operation would hinder the accident investigation. Source: ...
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German Government turns up heat on Airbus restructuring
Andrzej Jeziorski/MUNICH The German Government is linking the provision of further aeronautics-research funding to the restructuring of Airbus Industrie and the launch of the A3XX, putting further pressure on the Airbus partners to reach agreement on the establishment of a new commercial structure for the consortium. ...
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TAAL stakes claim to corporate aircraft niche
Taneja Aerospace and Aviation (TAAL) has launched what is believed to be India's first fractional-ownership scheme aimed at the corporate-aviation market. The company, a subsidiary of engineering company Indian Seamless, has set up the Netair scheme based on three of its own P68s - built locally under licence ...
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Alpi Eagles grounded over maintenance irregularities
Alpi Eagles has been temporarily grounded by the RAI, Italy's civil-aviation authority, after irregularities were discovered in the regional carrier's maintenance records during a routine aircraft inspection. The RAIfound "informal" aircraft technical logs, where malfunctions were being recorded be- fore being entered into the official log book. The civil-aviation authority ...
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EC puts pressure on Belgian CAA
The Belgian civil-aviation authority is coming under pressure from the European Commission (EC) to comply with rules which oblige all member states to accept and revalidate pilot licences wherever they are issued within the European Union. The issue is being pressed by a Belgian national who trained as ...
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Finnair vacates hotel business
Finnair is flying away from its hotels and restaurants Finnair is selling control of its hotel and restaurant business as part of a broader restructuring of the group which has seen its airline profits virtually halved over the past six months. The bulk of the ...
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Flight engineers call for world drive to improve flight safety
Andrezj Jeziorski/MUNICH The International Flight Engineers Organisation (IFEO) has highlighted six areas in which it considers that action must be taken to counter spiralling air-accident fatalities. At its 1996 general assembly in Munich, the organisation expressed "regret and dismay" at the increasing number of fatalities ...