All Ops & safety articles – Page 1369
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Boeing prepares to offer 747-500/600MD
Guy Norris/SEATTLE BOEING IS to seek board authority to offer the "Major Derivative" (MD) 747-500/600 in July, but may be forced to extend the development timescale by more than a year to incorporate more advanced technology, at the insistence of its airline advisory group. Boeing ...
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Inertial-platform failure is identified in Ariane 5 loss
Tim Furniss/LONDON INSPECTION of a segment of the vehicle-equipment bay recovered from the debris of the Ariane 5 booster lost on 4 June has revealed a malfunction in the inertial platforms, the European Space Agency (ESA) says. ESA and French space agency CNES had earlier reported ...
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Aer Lingus evaluates 180-seaters
Max Kingsley-Jones/LONDON AER LINGUS IS evaluating the various 180-seat (two-class seating) aircraft types, with a view to introducing a new aircraft in 1997, but more likely in 1998. The airline says that it is in "-the early days of looking at the options available". The ...
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Investigators query Garuda DC-10 abort
INVESTIGATORS of the Garuda Indonesia Airlines McDonnell Douglas DC-10-30 fatal runway overrun (Flight International, 19-25 June) are examining the captain's decision to abort the take-off following a No 3 engine failure, say sources close to the accident inquiry. The aircraft had been rotated for take-off. At that stage, ...
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Brunei FANS-1 upgrade is first on 'Classic' 747
Andrew Doyle/LONDON THE Brunei royal family has ordered the world's first Future Air Navigation System-1 (FANS-1) upgrade for a "Classic" Boeing 747. Work on the modification, which is being performed by Lufthansa Technik, is under way. The aircraft, a 747SP, is being fitted with ...
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767 precautions
A high-capacity flight-data recorder is being fitted to the Martinair Holland Boeing 767-300ER which suffered total electronic flight-instrument system failure and partial flight-controls loss on 28 May (Flight International, 5-11 June, P8) before the aircraft may return to service, says the US National Transportation Safety Board. Investigator Robert Hancock says ...
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Fatal training
An Iran Air Boeing 727-200 (EP-IRU) on a crew training flight crashed just after take-off from Rasht, Iran, on the south-western shores of the Caspian Sea, killing four of the seven crew, confirms insurance loss-adjuster Air-claims. The 21-year-old aircraft, one of five 727-200s and two 727-100s in Iran Air's fleet, ...
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Bristol
Mark Bills and Paul Davies are the new operations manager and health and safety manager, respectively, at Bristol Airport, in the UK. Bills were previously at the UK Civil Aviation Authority. Davies is an examiner with the National Examination Board in Occupational Safety and Health. Source: ...
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How HUD works
HUDs present the vital parameters of aircraft position, velocity, demand information and trend cues on a screen suspended from the flight-deck roof between the pilot's eyes and the aircraft windscreen. The pilot looks through this screen (the combiner) to the real world beyond and, as the combiner is collimated (focused ...
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False pride
THE VERY PUBLIC LOSS of the prototype Ariane 5 on 4 June was not so much a setback for European space activities as it was for European space pride. It should also, however, make European space officials - and their paymasters - reflect on just what is the object of ...
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FAA tackles runway overruns
A DEVICE DESIGNED to stop runway overruns is to be installed at New York's JFK International Airport following successful testing by the US Federal Aviation Administration. During the tests, which also involved the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey at the agency's Atlantic City technical centre, ...
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UK industry to launch research effort
Kevin O'Toole/LONDON AFTER YEARS of failing to win new Government funding for civil research-and-technology programmes, the UK's aerospace companies have taken matters into their own hands and launched a programme of industry-funded technology-demonstrator pilots. They hope that the UK Government will now help build the ...
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TechniFlite launches simulator-on-wheels deal for regionals
Graham Warwick/ATLANTA A mobile flight-simulator for the Raytheon Beech 1900D regional turboprop is to enter service in January 1997 with Denver, Colorado-based TechniFlite. It will be housed inside a tractor-trailer, which will be driven around the USA to provide on-site initial and recurrent pilot training. ...
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Cranfield to tackle gas-turbine degradation with new software
CRANFIELD UNIVERSITY of the UK has developed software to help aircraft operators identify factors which cause engine performance to degrade. Called Pythia, the system is designed to build a modular, computerised, model of a gas-turbine engine, using a Windows-based graphical user-interface. The software, then analyses ...
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Reutlinger lays down cost goal for Sabena
Herman de Wulf/BRUSSELS SABENA PRESIDENT Paul Reutlinger has laid out details of the new cost-cutting targets and fleet rationalisation being demanded by new partner Swissair in a bid to bring the Belgian carrier back to profitability by 1998. Reutlinger says that Sabena needs to shave ...
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Who's in control
AUSTRALIAN AGRICULTURAL OPERATOR Dan Kennedy, recently returned from a Churchill Fellowship world study on GA safety, believes that insurance payouts of up to A$1 million ($806,500) on turbine agricultural aircraft, more than 60 of which are operated in Australia, may price his industry out of business if accident trends cannot ...
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ValuJet to reduce maintenance contractors
Karen Walker/ATLANTA VALUJET AIRLINES, in response to criticism from the US Federal Aviation Administration is to cut the number of outside maintenance contractors it uses. An interim report, by the FAA on ValuJet's maintenance and safety procedures, highlights discovered since the Atlanta, Georgia-based airline came ...
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JADC considers YS-X partners for future
Paul Lewis/TOKYO JAPAN AIRCRAFT Development (JADC), expects to make a decision by August, on whether to continue with a 90 to 110 seat YS-X study with Boeing, or to shrink the project to a 70 to 90 seater, involving Bombardier. JADC has to submit its request ...
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New study identifies high-risk CFIT categories of operation
David Learmount/LONDON An accident involving controlled flight into terrain (CFIT) in instrument meteorological conditions (IMC), is most likely to happen to a single-crew operation in Africa flying a non- precision approach without a ground-proximity warning system (GPWS) says a so-far-unreleased report which quantifies CFIT risks. ...
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CAA licence to overcharge is simply not on
Sir-The three letters on "GAMTA must look at training" (Flight International, 3-9 April, P95) focus on the high costs incurred by aviation businesses in the UK. As a licensed engineer working for a foreign international airline in this country, I am required to hold a licence issued in ...