All Ops & safety articles – Page 1388
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Ageing-airliner census 1996
Max Kingsley-Jones/LONDON THIS YEAR's Flight International census of ageing airliners shows a growth of 6% (to some 8,200) in the number of jet-powered and turboprop aircraft more than 15 years old in active service at 1 January, 1996. The number of jet-airliners in existence, which ...
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Recovered TWA No 2 engine has turbine blades missing
INVESTIGATORS working on the Trans World Airlines (TWA) Boeing 747-100 crash off Long Island, New York, in July are still searching for conclusive evidence of what triggered the explosions, which destroyed the aircraft. The badly damaged No 2 engine has now been recovered, however, and is understood to have three ...
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Broderick says NTSB's ATR 72 verdict is wrong
AN INFLUENTIAL former US Federal Aviation Administration safety chief has radically challenged the National Transportation Safety Board's controversial verdict on the crash of a Simmons/American Eagle ATR 72 near Roselawn, Indiana, on 31 October 1994. Anthony Broderick, who resigned as the US Federal Aviation Administration's associate administrator for ...
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Southwest selects E&S visual for 737
US CARRIER Southwest Airlines has selected the Evans & Sutherland (E&S) ESIG-3350 visual system for a Boeing 737-700 full-flight simulator which is on order from Thomson Training & Simulation (TTS). The Level C simulator is to enter service at the end of 1997, when 737-700 launch customer Southwest receives the ...
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Europe is urged to act over 'unsafe' foreign carriers-
David Learmount/LONDON EUROPEAN UNION (EU) nations have been urged to take immediate action against unsafe foreign airlines which operate into EU airports. Action at national level, sanctioned by the European Council of Ministers, is a precursor to a united EU policy to be implemented in December. ...
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Delays loom for advanced European ATC systems
Julian Moxon/PARIS FINLAND AND SWEDEN are facing major delays in the introduction of their pioneering new air-traffic-control (ATC) systems, because of serious software-development problems being experienced by prime contractor Siemens Plessey. Both countries are upgrading their ATC centres (ATCCs) in line with the latest Eurocontrol ...
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Aerospace groups attack customer finance warning
Doug Cameron/LONDON BLEAK WARNINGS from a leading US credit-rating agency that aerospace manufacturers are heading for a funding crisis over mushrooming customer finance obligations have raised anger within the industry. The report from Moody's Investors Service claims that the exposure of civil manufacturers has risen ...
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Astra SPX business jet enters USA
PAINT MANUFACTURER Sherwin-Williams has become the first US operator of the Israel Aircraft Industries (IAI) Astra SPX business jet. The Mach 0.87 SPX has joined an Astra SP, based at the company's flight department and is expected to be flown for 400-500h a year. The Cleveland, Ohio-based paint ...
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Longer-lasting light hydraulic fluid is set to shave fuel bills
Graham Warwick/ATLANTA A FIRE-RESISTANT hydraulic fluid able to operate for longer at higher temperatures will be available early in 1997. US petrochemical group Monsanto says that it is now commercialising its Skydrol 5 fluid after successful in-service tests. McDonnell Douglas (MDC) has already approved the fluid ...
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ValuJet warns over debt covenants
VALUJET HAS warned that it may begin to run into problems with debt covenants by the end of September because of its grounding, which has been in place since mid-June in the wake of the Florida crash. In a filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission, the ...
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The phase-out rules in Europe and the USA
NON-STAGE 3 aircraft will be banned from operating in European Union member states from 1 April, 2002, unless specific waivers are granted for up to an additional three years. Any Stage 2 aircraft, which reaches 25 years of age before the final cut-off date, must be removed from service immediately. ...
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USA and Venezuela fight over safety
AIR SERVICES BETWEEN the USA and Venezuela stopped on 7 August, with both countries grounding each other's aircraft. US Federal Aviation Administration officials in Miami had grounded two Venezuelan airliners for safety reasons. Venezuelan inspectors in Caracas then grounded two American Airlines aircraft. Services have been resumed following talks in ...
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FlightSafety studies PC training power
Graham Warwick/ATLANTA FLIGHTSAFETY International (FSI) is moving to exploit the power of personal computers (PCs) for pilot training. The US training company has signed agreements enabling it to create "virtual classrooms" for customers and to improve and adapt Microsoft's popular Flight Simulator software for PCs. FSI ...
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USA/Mexico GPS
The USA and Mexico have established technical pacts on satellite-based navigational systems and other navigational services. The two sides can now formally begin co-operative work on future navigation systems involving the global-positioning system (GPS). Also established are specific functional areas of air-navigation services under which co-operative projects may be instituted ...
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Rush to hush
Different approaches to hushkits exist in Europe and the USA. Andrew Doyle/LONDON HUSHKIT SALES are booming, but the US domestic market is eclipsing that of Europe, highlighting the radically different approaches being taken by the airlines and airports of the two regions. The major passenger ...
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The politics of safety
Tony Broderick talks on politics, safety and the need for a new funding regime. Paul Phelan/CAIRNS TONY BRODERICK understands better than most the perils which political intervention can put in the path of effective aviation-safety oversight. After nearly two decades at the US Federal Aviation ...
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Brand X
Vance Brand, former astronaut and assistant chief of the Shuttle and Flight Support Office at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards AFB, California, will lead the five person official inquiry into the crash of the McDonnell Douglas/NASA Clipper Graham DC-XA after its landing at White Sands, New Mexico, on 31 ...
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Firefighting crash
A Canadair CL-215 fire fighting amphibian of Italy's civil-protection service crashed on 30 July while scooping water from a lake in Sicily, killing one crewmember and injuring the other. Source: Flight International
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Caribbean accident
An AeroCaribe de Havilland Canada Twin Otter crashed in jungle some 20m (65ft) short of the airfield at Playa del Carmen, Yucatan, Mexico, killing one passenger and injuring badly the other 16 on board. One of the pilots reported that a flying-control cable appeared to have failed. ...
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Europe shows FAA advanced ATC
Julian Moxon/PARIS THE US FEDERAL Aviation Administration is evaluating Eurocontrol's advanced air-traffic-control (ATC) technology to help it decide on investment in automated ATC systems. Eurocontrol is mounting a real-time simulation of its operational-display and input-development (ODID) system at its Bretigny-sur-Orge experimental centre, near Paris, to ...