All Ops & safety articles – Page 264
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Ryanair to trial wireless IFE this summer
Ryanair will this year begin trialling a free-to-access wireless in-flight entertainment service that will stream content from an onboard server to passengers' own electronic devices.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: A380 enters maturity as overhauls accelerate
When Emirates last summer towed one of its Airbus A380s into its Dubai MRO facility for a 3C-check – an overhaul scheduled after six years of operation – this was not the type's first such event but marked the beginning of a heavy maintenance cycle for what is, by a ...
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Spring Airlines offers 100 million shares for subscription
China's Spring Airlines has offered 100 million shares up for subscription, as it gears towards a listing on the Shanghai Stock Exchange (SSE).
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NewsAirbus books over 200 undisclosed A320s
Six undisclosed customers accounted for more than 200 Airbus A320-family aircraft in December as the airframer rounded off 2014 with 1,321 net single-aisle orders.
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Analysis
ANALYSIS: Future plans for flight data
Commercial air transport aircraft will soon be required to equip with deployable flight data recorders, or flight tracking equipment, or both. The only question is how soon.
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NewsAir Lease to launch longer-range A321neo
US lessor Air Lease Corporation has become the first customer to sign up for a longer-range variant of the Airbus A321neo, with a tentative deal for 30.
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NewsFourth vessel joins in underwater search for MH370
An additional vessel has been commissioned to carry out the underwater search for the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: Modernising global airline pilot training
Airlines and the world’s aviation authorities have been warned that if they miss the opportunity to modernise pilot training now, when International Pilot Training Consortium (IPTC) and the International Civil Aviation Organisation have finished preparing the ground for change, they may be stuck with 1950s-based training regulations for the foreseeable ...
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NewsSearchers recover QZ8501 flight data recorder
Indonesia's National Search and Rescue Agency (Basarnas) says search teams have retrieved the flight data recorder from the crashed Indonesia AirAsia flight QZ8501.
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NewsCyprus Airways ordered to repay over €65m in aid
Cyprus Airways has been ordered to repay more than €65 million ($80 million) in state aid, a decision which puts the survival of the flag-carrier in serious doubt.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: Airline safety plans for 2015
Several studies or projects aimed at reducing threats to airline safety are likely to come to fruition in 2015. In one of these, reacting to the French investigator’s recommendations in the report on the loss of Air France flight 447 over the South Atlantic in 2009, Airbus says it is ...
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NewsPings detected from QZ8501 recorder
Indonesia's National Search and Rescue Agency (Basarnas) says that searchers have detected pings consistent with the flight data and cockpit voice recorders of the crashed Indonesia AirAsia flight QZ8501.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: Airline safety performance in 2014
Despite public perception, 2014 has been an extraordinarily good year for aviation safety – but the shadow of MH370, MH17 and December's AirAsia disaster cast a long shadow over the positive figures
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AnalysisANALYSIS: Accident reports published in the last six months of 2014
Accident reports published in last six months of 2014
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NewsQZ8501 searchers grasp for elusive recorder transmissions
Teams involved in the search for the Indonesia AirAsia Airbus A320 that crashed into the Java Sea on 28 December have yet to detect pings from the aircraft’s flight data and cockpit voice recorders.
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NewsIndonesia AirAsia's Singapore-Surabaya route under scrutiny
A conflicting picture has emerged about the frequency of Indonesia AirAsia’s Surabaya-Singapore schedule following the crash of flight QZ8501 on 28 December 2014.
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NewsIndonesia optimistic it has located main site of QZ8501
Indonesia is optimistic that it has located large sections of an Indonesia Airbus A320 aircraft that crashed on the Surabaya-Singapore route last on Sunday 28 December while operating flight QZ8501.
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News2014 shows lowest airline fatal accident rate in history
Calendar year 2014 has turned out to be the best year ever for airline safety, according to airline safety analyst Flightglobal Ascend. For many this may seem an unexpected result given the perceptions created by the high profile losses of two Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777s and the crash of an ...
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NewsCrashed TransAsia ATR crew called for go around at 72ft
An investigation into the fatal crash of an ATR 72-500 that was trying to land at Taiwan’s Magong island in stormy conditions shows that the crew called for a go around at just 72ft.
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NewsHeavy seas hamper QZ8501 recovery efforts
Searchers have yet to locate the wreckage of Airasia Indonesia flight QZ8501 on the floor of the Java Sea, as heavy seas hamper recovery operations.