All Ops & safety articles – Page 417
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A380 flights to Los Angeles unprofitable with Trent 900s: Qantas
Qantas Airways will not be able to operate any of its Airbus A380s profitably on the Sydney-Los Angeles route if it uses its existing Rolls-Royce Trent 900...
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Airbus' Leahy placed under investigation by French authorities
Airbus sales chief John Leahy and former EADS human resources director Erik Pillet have been placed under investigation by French judicial authorities for alleged insider trading.
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Single-aisle rise drives Airbus GMF delivery increase
Airbus attributes the 1,000-unit rise in its long-term delivery forecast for single-aisles to the industry's recovery from the downturn and a slight upwards...
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Aviation escapes proposed new tax as UN climate talks end
Climate change negotiations in Cancun, Mexico have concluded without the imposition of a proposed levy on the aviation industry, but with a greater recognition...
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Bearing compartment module behind secondary Trent 900 oil leak
Qantas Airways has specified the part it is replacing in some of its Rolls-Royce Trent 900 engines due to a secondary oil leak. That oil leak is unrelated...
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Australia introduces flexible control of military airspace
Australia has introduced a series of changes to the way military airspace operates in the country following a two-year review designed to deliver more flexible and efficient airspace usage.
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Qantas 747 power loss incident prompts calls for safety action
Australian safety regulators have called for US regulations to address the potential risk caused by liquid contamination of aircraft electrical systems,...
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AB25: reflections from Akbar Al-Baker and Samer Majali
To mark the 25th anniversary of Airline Business, 25 leading airline industry executives who have helped shape the sector over the last quarter century, give their reflections on the last 25 years and the challenges for the years to come. Here two of the Middle East region's most influential chef ...
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Investigators locate cockpit recorder of Dagestan Tu-154
Russian investigators have retrieved the cockpit-voice recorder of the crashed Dagestan Airline Tupolev Tu-154M in Moscow, nearly a week after the accident.
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SIA modifies Trent 900s to latest variant
Singapore Airlines (SIA) is modifying some Rolls-Royce Trent 900 engines to the latest "C mod", following the 4 November uncontained engine failure on a...
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Replacement Twin Otter arrives in Antarctica
A Twin Otter aircraft is due to arrive today at Australia's Casey station in Antarctica to replace a damaged CASA 212-400 aircraft operated by Sydney-based...
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ATSB focuses on "mod A" and "mod B" Trent 900s
The Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) ordered stub pipe inspections on only two specific versions of the Rolls-Royce Trent 900 engine as part of...
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US agency launches probe as P&W, Rolls patent war escalates
A US agency has launched an investigation springing from an ongoing patent dispute between Pratt & Whitney and Rolls-Royce waged over turbine blades for...
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Boeing at work behind the scenes on 737 re-engining project
Boeing's customers may have given a tepid reaction to a 737 re-engining project, but behind the scenes the airframer has not slowed the pace on work to refine the design of an updated narrowbody.
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Crashed Tu-154 sustained heavy impact force on landing
Russian investigators have disclosed the extent of the impact forces experienced by the Dagestan Airlines Tupolev Tu-154M which made an emergency landing...
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Continental takes aim at French Concorde verdict
Continental Airlines is to appeal against a French court's decision to hold the US carrier and one of its mechanics guilty of actions that led to the July 2000 crash of a BAC-Aerospatiale Concorde on the ouskirts of Paris.
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F-35 partly recovers flight test record in 2010, but fresh obstacles await
The Lockheed Martin F-35 will pass the fourth anniversary of its first flight on 15 December with a test programme surging forward but facing new challenges in 2011, says chief test pilot Jon Beesley.
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Two Flybe aircraft in weeks shed unlatched engine doors
Just two months after a Flybe jet lost unlatched engine cowl doors on take-off, another Flybe aircraft lost an engine access door in similar circumstances,...
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Emirates A380 wing damaged as catering truck collapses
Emirates has removed one of its Airbus A380 aircraft from service after an incident in which a scissor-lift catering truck collapsed at Toronto, damaging...