All Ops & safety articles – Page 891
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Five carriers feature on French 'blacklist'
France’s civil aviation directorate has identified five carriers which have been banned from its territory over non-compliance with International Civil Aviation Organisation regulations.
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Pressure mounts for EU blacklist
Recent aviation accidents have added impetus to plans to ban ‘unsafe’ aircraft from European airports
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Lazy Lists
Banning airlines might take the heat off politicians, but it is a weak response to a gigantic challenge and is unlikely to achieve much
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NewsStart-up Jade to order 747-400ERFs
Chinese cargo start-up Jade Cargo International has agreed to acquire six Boeing 747-400ER Freighters, but has delayed its launch by one year.
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NewsTANS confirms 57 survivors in 737-200 crash
Peruvian carrier TANS has confirmed that 57 people survived the Boeing 737-200 crash on 23 August near the city of Pucallpa, although it remains unclear exactly how many were on board the aircraft.
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Cessna 172 crash kills four
A Cessna 172 has crashed in the mountainous region near Simplondorf on the Swiss-Italian border killing all four passengers on board.
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Investigators probe Northwest 747 landing gear collapse
US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) officials are investigating the landing gear collapse of a Northwest Airlines Boeing 747-200 at Guam international airport on 19 August following a flight from Tokyo Narita.
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Airline safety record reverses
The recent spate of fatal accidents worldwide, culminating in the loss of a TANS Peru Boeing 737-200 yesterday, ensures that 2005’s airline safety record will mark an unwelcome reversal of the downward trend in fatalities over the last three years.
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No technical problem during A340 overrun: Airbus
Airbus has indicated to operators that there was no technical problem with the Air France Airbus A340-300 that overran the runway at Toronto Pearson Airport earlier this month.
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The woman holding the A380’s future in her hands
Rachel Daeschler is the European Aviation Safety Agency’s project certification manager for the Airbus A380 in Cologne. She heads a team of 40 engineers