All Ops & safety articles – Page 1420
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Air safety takes a dive
David Learmount/LONDON THE AMERICAN Airlines Boeing 757 crash in Colombia on 20 December contributed to a plunge in world airline-safety figures during the last six months of 1995, following the most promising first half-year period in history. Provisional figures show that there were just over 1,200 deaths in ...
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Boeing re-asserts its lead in recovering airliner market
Kevin O'Toole/LONDON BOEING RE-ASSERTED its dominance of world airliner markets in 1995, revealing a total of 346 new orders for the year, more than treble the result of either Airbus or McDonnell Douglas (MDC). Ron Woodard, president of Boeing's Commercial Airplane Group, is upbeat about ...
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Airlines turn to ultrasonic/ eddy-current wheel testing
METOPTIC International is marketing what it claims to be the world's first system for testing aircraft wheels, which combines the use of eddy currents and ultrasonics. Eddy-current inspection systems are used to detect surface faults on the outer surface of a wheel hub, while more sophisticated ultrasonic ...
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US/UK air-safety bilateral finalised
THE USA AND THE UK have signed a bilateral aviation-safety agreement, which eases the oversight of aircraft and simulator certification, as well as maintenance operations. An agreement with the Netherlands was made in 1995 and the US Federal Aviation Administration is also working with Canada, France and Germany ...
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No alternative to BALPA/BA deal
Sir - Ivor Bennett has got the wrong end of the stick in his letter "Inconsistency in BALPA policy" (Flight International, Letters, 22-28 November 1995, P68). The facts are as follows. Early in 1995, British Airways proposed the introduction of "cadet cruise-only" pilots, on to the Boeing 747-400 ...
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Australian training plan sparks row
AUSTRALIA'S FLYING training industry has condemned an Australian Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA) plan for its restructure, calling the regulatory proposals "...over-regulation and an attempt to create more jobs in CASA". The review recommends sweeping increases in minimum experience and training for instructor ratings at all levels, with ...
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Researchers glimpse potential in ceramics
Martin Hindley/LONDON APPLICATIONS FOR lightweight, toughened ceramics could be found, in the jet engines of the future, US researchers claim. Materials scientists at Cornell University in New York have developed a technique for "tempering" ceramics - improving their crack resistance at temperatures of up to ...
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Sea change
Japan may be about to wave goodbye to convention as it tackles the problem of airport congestion. Michael Fitzpatrick/TOKYO USER-FRIENDLY is not a term you could use to describe New Tokyo International Airport at Narita. It is a Y21,650 ($210) taxi ride away from Tokyo, ...
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A little learning is a dangerous thing
Sir - In reply to Mark Aroney's letter (Flight International, 13-19 December, 1995, P43), I am an aviation professional holding flight-crew and engineering licences granted from the different countries in which I have worked. For safety reasons, there is only one common language of communication in aviation, and ...
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USAir predicts surprise profits for 1995
USAIR CHAIRMAN Seth Schofield says that the carrier's profits performance for 1995 is on course to exceed even the most optimistic of expectations among financial analysts. Speaking at a meeting of analysts in New York, Schofield confirmed that traffic figures have stayed strong throughout the fourth quarter of ...
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ANA orders powerplants for its A321s and 777s
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE ALL NIPPON AIRWAYS (ANA) has announced $400 million worth of orders for V2500 and growth PW4090 engines to power its new fleet of Airbus A321-100s and Boeing 777-300s. The Japanese carrier has selected the International Aero Engines 135kN (30,000lb)-thrust V2530-A5 for its A321s. ...
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Avianova flies Fokker 70
ALITALIA subsidiary Avianova put the first of its new Fokker 70 regional jets into service on 20 December, between Turin and Paris. The Rome-based airline has now taken delivery of the first three of its 15 ordered aircraft, with seven more to come in the third quarter, and the remaining ...
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747 assessment
China Airlines (CAL) may have to scrap a Boeing 747-200, which crashed while attempting a three-engine take-off from Manila Airport. The 13-year old aircraft, worth an estimated $40 million, is in a borderline condition. Repair work would require a complete replacement of its lower section 41 and, possibly, lower section ...
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American 757 crashes
An American Airlines Boeing 757, which left Miami for Cali, Colombia on 20 December, crashed into mountains at night, killing all but four of the 167 people on board. The aircraft was on its descent into Cali from the north, which requires a step-letdown procedure using VHF-omni-range/distance-measuring-equipment navigation beacons. The ...
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Angola accident
A Trans Service Airlift Lockheed Electra has crashed in Lunda Norte province, Angola, killing 139 of the 144 people on board. The Kinshasa, Zaire-based airline had been chartered by the Angolan political movement UNITA to operate the flight from Jamba, Lunda Norte, on 18 December. Source: Flight International
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SAS adds cargo capacity
Scandinavian Airlines System (SAS) is leasing a Boeing 747-200F freighter from Atlas Air for services from Scandinavia to Asia and the USA. The aircraft will enter service in March and boost the insufficient cargo capacity on the airline's passenger aircraft. In 1994, SAS carried 200,000t of cargo and expects to ...
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Air transport
Andrew Doyle/TECHNICAL REPORTER Kevin O'Toole/BUSINESS EDITOR THE GOOD NEWS, at least for manufacturers, is that aircraft deliveries reached the bottom in 1995. The less good news is that the upturn in 1996 will be moderate. The big three, airframe manufacturers (Airbus, Boeing and McDonnell Douglas), ...
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Airline navigation
Kieran Daly/Editor Air Navigation International THE OPERATOR-community will see only a little more of the future air-navigation system (FANS) turn to reality during 1996, but, across the globe, a vast amount of development work will take place. That has to happen if the numerous target dates ...
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Airlines win battle to delay noise controls
Kevin O'Toole/LONDON THE AIRLINE industry has won a reprieve from the threat of a stringent new set of noise and emission controls, which risked wiping billions of dollars off the value of the world fleet. The immediate threat receded as the Committee on Aviation Environmental ...
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Executive Airlines to fit GPS to ATRs
PUERTO RICO-based American Eagle carrier Executive Airlines is equipping its ten ATR 42s and 72s with global-positioning systems (GPS) to allow cost-saving direct routing. Executive has selected Universal Avionics' UNS-1M GPS-based navigation-management system for its aircraft. The airline's decision follows a six-month proof-of-concept programme, which demonstrated ...