All Ops & safety articles – Page 1418
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Engine problems ground Swiss Airbuses
SWISSAIR HAS grounded five Airbus A320/321s after cracks were discovered in the turbine section of their CFM International CFM56-5B turbofans. The grounding affects Swissair aircraft recently fitted with the low- emissions dual-annular combustor (DAC). The airline describes the move as precautionary. The aircraft were withdrawn from ...
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Alitalia seeks ban on strikes to help recapitalisation
ALITALIA IS AWAITING responses from its main unions over plans for an 18-month ban on industrial action, which has become essential if the cash-strapped carrier is to go ahead with its badly needed recapitalisation. The Italian flag carrier requires a cash injection of L1.5 billion ($950 million) to ...
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All's well
The Independent Pilots Association (IPA) is both delighted and relieved by the decision of the Department of Employment and Education (DoEE) to finally reject British Airway's application for work permits for USAir pilots. Had it been approved, it would have made a mockery of the immigration laws ...
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US en route ATC system unreliable, but safe
Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC AN INVESTIGATION by the US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has concluded that the country's en route air-traffic-control (ATC) system is safe, but that equipment breakdowns have had a detrimental effect on air- traffic-movement efficiency. The NTSB probe is one of three ...
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Safety: who is really to blame?
Sir - I refer to the Airline Safety Review (Flight International, 17-23 January), which gives a table of the most common reasons for airline accidents. The top five causes (aircrew error, controlled flight into terrain, weather, loss of control, engine failure/fire) can all be brought together, under one ...
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Checking the numbers
There are fears that Hong Kong's new airport is already heading for a capacity problem. Chris Yates/HONG KONG IT IS THE WORLD'S single largest project in civil engineering today and one of the most complex combined excavation and reclamation projects in history, requiring the largest fleet of seaborne dredgers, ...
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Safety Contract
China Airlines (CAL) has contracted Lufthansa Technik to help the accident-prone Taiwanese national carrier improve its safety record. Lufthansa Technik will advise CAL on drawing up new operational and maintenance management procedures over the next two to three years. The airline has suffered from a spate of fatal and non-fatal ...
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Emission control
Experiments are in hand to determine the real impact aircraft are having on the atmosphere. Martin Hindley/LONDON SCIENTISTS STUDYING the effects of aircraft emissions on the Earth's atmosphere have produced results, which may dispel one of the most commonly held theories about air pollution. After more than ...
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USAir turnaround ends six straight years of losses
PROFITS HAVE continued to roll in from the US airline industry, with USAir delivering on its promises of a dramatic turnaround, producing its first annual profit since 1988. USAir ended the year showing net profits of $120 million, against a loss of $685 million a year ago. ...
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Tahiti's FANS makes headway
Julian Moxon/PARIS FRANCE'S THOMSON-CSF has completed the second phase of Tahiti's new satellite-based oceanic air-traffic-control system, with delivery of the automated data-link component. When complete in early 1997, the Tahiti system will be one of the main components of the South Pacific Future Air Navigation ...
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'Financial irregularities' found at Transwede
SWEDISH STATE prosecutor Berndt Berger has found "gross irregularities" in the finances of Sweden's Transwede Airways. Investigations into the airline were started after the present owners raised the alarm over the whereabouts of nearly krona 180 million ($26 million). Two former presidents, Lars-Olof Svenheim and Thomas Johansson, have ...
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Pakistani first
First officer Maliha Sami of Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) has become the first woman pilot in the company to fly an Airbus A310. Sami was also the first woman pilot to fly the Airbus A300 as co-pilot, and was the first woman pilot to join PIA in 1990. Before that ...
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Defining IATA's role in Russia
Sir - Your leader "Air traffic mismanagement" (Flight International, 6-12 December, 1995) states: "The fear is that Russia will adopt a series of isolated, unco-ordinated, primarily vendor-driven ATM systems", which, in itself, is not unjustified. The conclusions of the analysis are wrong, however. The International Air Transport Association's ...
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US pilot hiring up
Major US airlines almost doubled pilot hiring in 1995, according to Atlanta, Georgia-based Aviation Information Resources (AIR). The consultancy says that 12 majors hired 2,377 pilots, up from 1,266 in 1994. The forecast is for the airlines to hire 2,500 pilots in 1996. Overall, 196 airlines surveyed by AIR hired ...
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Government recommendation raises Grob Strato 2C fears
Andrzej Jeziorski/MUNICH GERMAN RESEARCH and technology minister Jurgen Ruttgers has recommended that the Grob Strato 2C high-altitude research-aircraft programme be cancelled. The minister is believed to have handed a report to the country's parliamentary budget committee advising that the Government refuse further support for the aircraft. ...
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Evergreen flies all-GPS 747
EVERGREEN International Airlines has replaced the inertial-navigation system (INS) in a Boeing 747-100 freighter with a triple global-positioning system (GPS) installation, the first INS replacement by GPS in a 747. The installation of three Trimble TNL-8100 GPS navigation systems in the 747 was certificated by avionics-engineering firm Canard ...
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Boeing 757 operators are advised of engine problem
Gunter Endres/LONDON BOEING HAS warned operators of 757s about several engine-rundown incidents on aircraft powered by Rolls-Royce RB.211-535E4 s. About half of the 700 aircraft operated by some 60 airlines across the world are involved, but the indications are that only older examples are affected. According ...
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British Midland to face JAR action
IMPLEMENTATION OF the European Joint Aviation Regulations (JARs) has led to criminal charges being brought against British Midland Airlines by the UK Civil Aviation Authority following a maintenance error in 1995. JARs make companies, rather than individuals, responsible for errors. The BMA mistake caused the emergency diversion and ...
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FAA agrees to investigate phase-in of free-flight
THE US FEDERAL Aviation Administration has declared in favour of phased introduction of "free-flight" air navigation as recommended by a Radio Technical Commission for Aeronautics task-force report. Monte Belger, the FAA's associate administrator for air-traffic services, says that the aviation agency will respond formally this month to the ...
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Air France sneaks profit
Gilbert Sedbon/PARIS AIR FRANCE HAS turned in a modest profit for the first half of its 1995/6 financial year, but with the carrier's weakest traffic months still to come and the fall-out of French industrial unrest in December, the airline expects further heavy losses for the full year. ...