All Ops & safety articles – Page 1372
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American signs Boeing for fleet replacement
Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC AMERICAN AIRLINES has placed firm orders for 103 Boeings as part of a deal which could see it buying a total of 630 aircraft over the next 20 years. Based on Boeing's list prices, the firm order is valued at $6.6 billion, ...
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Australia specifies Twin Otter crash cause
The fatal crash of a de Havilland Twin Otter in Papua New Guinea (PNG) in July 1995 has been attributed to leakage of kerosene carried in passenger baggage in the aircraft's aft hold, probably ignited by faulty or age-deteriorated electrical wiring. The aircraft crashed shortly after take-off when ...
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FedEx launches Ayres Loadmaster
Fred Ayres models his latest development Agricultural-aircraft maker Ayres of Albany, Georgia, has launched its Loadmaster LM200 cargo aircraft with an order for 50 from FedEx. The parcel carrier also has options for 200 additional aircraft over 15 years from first delivery in December 1999. The ...
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Rudder result
Boeing says that 2,000 737s, representing two-thirds of the world's fleet, have passed tests of their rudder-control units. The rudder power control unit (PCU) inspection was ordered by the US Federal Aviation Administration after Boeing engineers concluded that the PCU can jam under extreme conditions. Loss of rudder control is ...
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A virtual threat
USAir orders up to 400 Airbuses; American Airlines takes 103 Boeings now, with up to 630 in total in the next 22 years; Continental, 90 Boeings; GECAS, 45 Airbuses; Ansett Worldwide Aviation Services, 25 Boeings- Is the air-transport industry showing robust and welcome signs of recovery, or unhealthy and unwelcome ...
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Why make changes to UK licensing?
Sir - It was understood that the purpose of harmonisation of flightcrew licensing (FCL) within the European Union (EU) was to ensure a common technical standard and to issue pilots of all member states with the same European (not national) licence. The UK Civil Aviation Authority's policy is ...
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Poor safety monitoring
The US Federal Aviation Administration has given several Caribbean states poor marks for monitoring aviation safety. These are Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Dominica, Grenada, Montserrat, St Lucia, St. Vincent and The Grenadines, and St Kitts and Nevis. Only limited operations to the USA are permitted until improvements are made. ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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EC supports compromise over status of JAA and Eurocontrol
Kevin O'Toole/Brussels THE EUROPEAN Commission (EC) says that it is supporting a compromise deal to establish the region's Joint Aviation Authorities (JAA) and Eurocontrol as official international bodies, but which stops short of creating single European authorities. Proposals for a reformed JAA are due to be ...
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Safety delegates warned on Third World issues
David Learmount/DUBAI EFFORTS TO IMPROVE the world's air-transport safety will fail while the industry continues to ignore the needs of developing countries and the Third World, where most accidents happen, according to Pakistan International Airlines' Capt Amjad Faizi. Delegates from 40 nations attended the combined Dubai ...
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Kiwi International rescue is in doubt, while ValuJet sees red
Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC The future of Kiwi International Airlines remains in doubt and liquidation of the low-fare US airline entrant is a distinct possibility as a rescue effort turns sour. Kiwi, which filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on 30 September and suspended its scheduled flight ...