All Ops & safety articles – Page 161
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Cathay Pacific 'pleased' with A350-1000 performance
Cathay Pacific Airways is "pleased" with the performance of the Airbus A350-1000 during its first three months in service, says chief executive Rupert Hogg.
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Pilot error behind Air Canada A320 near-miss at San Francisco
Flight crew's lack of awareness of a runway closure at San Francisco was the probable cause behind a near-miss involving an Air Canada Airbus A320 that almost landed on a taxiway on 7 July 2017, says the US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB).
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A350 diversion crew received engine temperature warning
Preliminary information on an Iberia Airbus A350-900 diversion to Boston shows the crew received a warning that exhaust gas temperature on the left-hand engine was over limit.
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SIA A350-900ULR ferry shows off long-haul capabilities
Singapore Airlines’ first Airbus A350-900ULR demonstrated its long-haul capabilities during an unusual delivery flight during which the aircraft routed over the Arctic.
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Ryanair to 'consider re-entering the French market'
Ryanair has indicated its readiness to start operating French bases again, citing a national supreme-court judgement relating to social insurance payments collected for Marseille-stationed crew between 2006 and 2010.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: Can the industry get more women into the cockpit?
Kanchana Gamage begins presentations to young schoolchildren about careers in aviation by announcing that two pilots will be giving the talk. “When two women walk onto stage in their uniforms, the gasp from the audience is audible,” says the founder of the Aviatrix Project, a campaign to encourage more girls ...
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Schedule pressure caused Lion 737, A330 wing clip
Pressure for a Lion Air Boeing 737-800 crew to beat an airport curfew in Manado led to a misjudgement in maintaining distance separation with a an Airbus A330-300, leading to a ground collision with the widebody while taxiing at Jakarta Soekarno-Hatta International airport on 1 May 2016.
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LHT eyes part-sale of Aviatar digital services platform
Lufthansa Technik is planning a part-divestment of its digital services platform, Aviatar, in an effort to establish a "neutral" system for operators to access and analyse aircraft onboard data.
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SNAPSHOT: Commercial fleet summary September 2018
Information from Flight Fleets Analyzer shows that the global in-service commercial fleet now totals just over 29,300 units, of which more than 26,900 are deployed in a passenger role.
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Tigerair Australia drops SIAEP after defect found on 737
Tigerair Australia has stopped sending aircraft for heavy maintenance at SIA Engineering Philippines after a Boeing 737-800 was grounded for just over three weeks following a heavy check at the MRO operator's Clark facility.
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Sochi overrun 737 landed nearly halfway down runway
Russian investigators have disclosed that the Utair Boeing 737-800 which overran at Sochi touched down almost halfway along the runway.
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OpinionOPINION: Can aviation overcome drone collision risk?
As of January this year, there had been just seven reported collisions between drones and manned aircraft globally, none of which were in the UK.
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OpinionOPINION: Interjet's sweet SSJ100 deal turns sour
Mexican airline Interjet's attempt to step back from remarks that it is considering selling its Sukhoi Superjet 100 fleet is the latest development in a five-year-long service history that has been marked by operational challenges.
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Iberia examines Trent XWB in-flight shutdown
Iberia is investigating the cause of an in-flight shutdown involving a Rolls-Royce Trent XWB engine on one of the Spanish flag carrier's Airbus A350s.
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PICTURE: Axle fatigue crack led Ryanair 737 to lose nose-wheel
UK investigators have determined that a fatigue crack in the nose-gear axle of a Ryanair Boeing 737-800 caused one of the wheels to detach on take-off from London Stansted.
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Peach to resume all international flights at Osaka Kansai
Peach will resume all international services from Osaka Kansai International airport on 14 September, as more of the airport’s facilities recover from floods that hit it on 4 September.
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Ryanair calls for change to Irish law in hope of appeasing unions
Ryanair is lobbying the Irish government to change tax regulations such that the airline could meet a key demand of unions to contract staff under the employment laws of the country in which they reside.
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Crashed Let 410 had recently returned from lengthy storage
The Let 410UVP (UR-TWO) destroyed in a 9 September landing accident in South Sudan had only recently re-entered service after more than a decade in storage, Flight Fleets Analyzer shows.
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ANALYSIS: Why fuller 'big data' benefits remain unrealised
United Airlines executive Tom Romanowski envisions a day when the voluminous sensor data generated by modern aircraft flows in real time to his team's data-crunching computers.
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OpenSkies retires final Boeing after last 767 flight to Newark
The Boeing 767 operated by IAG's Paris Orly-based brand OpenSkies has completed its final transatlantic service and been withdrawn from service.