All Ops & safety articles – Page 72
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NewsUK regulator clears 737 Max for flight
UK regulators have, as expected, approved the Boeing 737 Max for return to service, publishing a separate airworthiness directive to the European Union Aviation Safety Agency. This separate publication follows the UK’s exit from EASA membership as it completed its withdrawal from the European Union on 1 January. But the ...
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NewsBoeing 737-10 processes to undergo revision after EASA’s Max scrutiny
One crucial consequence of the Boeing 737 Max scrutiny is that development and certification work for the 737-10 will differ substantially from that of the earlier Max variants. Extensive analysis by the US FAA and European Union Aviation Safety Agency following the Max grounding two years ago has led not ...
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NewsEASA yet to approve 737 Max for certain precision approaches
Operators of the Boeing 737 Max in Europe will be prohibited from conducting certain precision approaches until regulators are satisfied that the aircraft can maintain the necessary performance under specific failure conditions. While the European Union Aviation Safety Agency has cleared the 737 Max to return to service, it has ...
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NewsEASA formally clears 737 Max to resume operations
Europe’s air safety authority has formally cleared the Boeing 737 Max to return to service with the publishing of a finalised airworthiness directive. The European Union Aviation Safety Agency published the document on 27 January, following a consultation period which closed on 22 December last year. EASA executive director Patrick ...
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NewsHaste appears pivotal to E-11A crash pilots’ engine misidentification
Military investigators have signalled that haste was a contributing element to a Bombardier E-11A crew’s incorrectly identifying a failed engine and, in response, mistakenly shutting down the functioning one. The E-11A, a US Air Force (USAF) version of the Global 6000 executive jet, crashed some 21nm (39km) short of the ...
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NewsUS extends entry ban for most European nations and Brazil
The US government has extended an entry ban preventing travellers from Europe’s Schengen Area, the United Kingdom, Ireland and Brazil from entering the country in a further attempt to slow the spread of the highly contagious coronavirus, and its even more virulent mutations.
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Airline BusinessHow trust strained by the DC-10 fractured with the 737 Max
As the domino-chain grounding of the Boeing 737 Max and its gradual patchwork rehabilitation have revealed, unanimous agreement that air safety is paramount does not necessarily translate into a harmonised approach to delivering it. When the European Union Aviation Safety Agency grounded the Max in March 2019, the US FAA ...
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NewsATR 72 damaged after distracted crew lined up with runway edge lights
German investigators have determined that the crew of an ATR 72-200 freighter were distracted while turning for take-off from Cologne, and inadvertently lined up with the left-hand runway edge lights. As the ATR accelerated along the runway it struck several of these lights, inflicting damage to the airframe in the ...
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NewsUS travel industry pushes back on potential quarantine
The US air transport and travel industries are pushing back on a potential quarantine requirement for international travellers arriving in the US, currently being weighed by the administration of President Joe Biden, in order to stem the spread of the coronavirus.
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NewsEncourage crews to report fatigue risk during pandemic: UK CAA
UK civil aviation regulators are stressing that operators need to encourage crews to report fatigue-related occurrences as a result of abnormal duty patterns, in order to ensure that risk-assessment models remain valid during the pandemic. The pandemic has resulted in severe disruption to carriers’ services and forced aircraft crews to ...
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NewsSriwijaya Air crash victim search halted; hunt for CVR continues
Indonesian officials have officially halted search and rescue efforts to locate more victims of the Sriwijaya Air crash, but are continuing their hunt for the Boeing 737-500’s cockpit-voice recorder (CVR).
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NewsBiden requires masks on flights, pursues quarantine for international arrivals
The US government is mandating travellers wear face coverings on all public transportation, including on commercial airline flights and in airports, and is moving to require quarantines for inbound international passengers.
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NewsUS President Biden to sign order mandating masks on aircraft
The new US administration of President Joe Biden will require face coverings be worn on flights in a more rigorous attempt to contain exploding coronavirus case counts across the country, according to reports.
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NewsWest Atlantic 737 freighter damaged during Exeter landing
Swedish-UK freight specialist West Atlantic has confirmed that one of its Boeing 737-400 cargo aircraft was involved in a landing incident at Exeter early on 19 January. West Atlantic chief Lars Jordahn tells FlightGlobal that the “incident on landing” involved freighter G-JMCY – a 1994 airframe originally delivered to Alaska ...
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NewsUK regulator to issue separate directive approving 737 Max restoration
While the European Union Aviation Safety Agency is aiming to recertify the Boeing 737 Max within a few days, its UK counterpart has yet to indicate whether it will deviate from the requirements when it issues its own approval. FlightGlobal understands that the UK Civil Aviation Authority intends to release ...
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NewsEASA open to relaxation of single-pilot rules for commercial aviation
EASA is considering the potential for some relaxation of the rules which currently restrict single-pilot operations in commercial aviation.
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NewsEASA to gauge public’s appetite for widespread urban air taxi operations
European safety officials will later this year conduct surveys in six cities across the continent as regulators attempt to assess the public’s appetite for increased operations of drones and urban air mobility (UAM) vehicles in built-up areas.
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NewsBiden team says US travel restrictions will remain
The administration of US President-elect Joe Biden has no intention of immediately lifting the USA’s entry ban on travellers arriving from certain coronavirus-affected countries.
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NewsEASA to approve 737 Max return next week
Europe’s safety regulator will next week approve the return to service of the Boeing 737 Max when it releases its final airworthiness directive (AD) for the troubled twinjet.
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NewsSriwijaya crash probe aims for preliminary findings in early February
Indonesian investigators are aiming to publish preliminary findings regarding the Sriwijaya Boeing 737-500 crash in early February, in line with ICAO standards. Investigation authority KNKT says the flight-data recorder download has yielded information on 370 parameters. KNKT head Nurcahyo Utomo says the authority hopes to publish a preliminary report on ...