All Ops & safety articles – Page 889
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Engine power studied in Mandala 737 crash probe
Indonesia’s National Transportation Safety Committee (NTSC) is examining whether the Boeing 737-200 that 5 September experienced a loss of power on takeoff.
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Data retrieval from crashed MD-82 recorders complete
French investigators have completed the extraction of information from the cockpit-voice and flight-data recorders of the West Caribbean Airways Boeing MD-82 which crashed in Venezuela last month.
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Crashed Tuninter ATR had wrong fuel gauge installed
Italian investigators are urging ATR operators to check fuel gauges on their aircraft after discovering the Tuninter ATR 72 lost in a fatal accident off Sicily last month was fitted with a fuel-quantity indicator meant only for ATR 42s.
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NewsA380 flight test update
Read our three-article special report as Airbus reveals the triumphs and tribulations of flight-testing the world's largest airliner.
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China Southern orders 10 more A330s
China Southern Airlines has placed a follow-on order with Airbus for 10 more A330 widebodies for delivery in 2007 and 2008.
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787 engineering simulator to be ready for 2006 review
Flightdeck features largest display screens ever installed on a commercial airliner
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Crashed Indonesian 737's recorders recovered
Both the flight data recorder and cockpit voice recorder have been recovered from the wreckage of the Mandala Airlines Boeing 737-200 that crashed 5 September in western Indonesia, killing nearly all on board and some on the ground.
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Old software reinstalled to fix 777 avionics glitch
FAA issues emergency airworthiness directive after worries over inertial sensors
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Honeywell adapts its Telematics
Near real-time diagnosis of engine data could avoid need for pilot involvement in maintenance reporting
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ICAO to get tough over audit data
Accident spate injects new urgency into body’s efforts to spotlight rogue aviation authorities that fail to improve