All Safety articles – Page 42
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AnalysisAirline safety review January-June 2020
Nothing has been normal about air transport operations during the first half of this year, so analysis is subjective. But, our semi-annual review of global flight safety points to a period that may not have matched the high standards of recent years
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NewsA350-900 operators alerted to Trent XWB-84 blade cracking
Rolls-Royce is attempting to reassure investors and operators of the Airbus A350 over the impact of the latest durability problem to hit its Trent widebody engine family.
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NewsOverrun risk underlined after third similar EasyJet take-off incident at Lisbon
UK investigators have disclosed that a third EasyJet take-off incident at Lisbon last year, under near-identical circumstances as the previous two, resulted in the Airbus A320 lifting off just 110m from the runway end. The incident, relating to performance calculation confusion, occurred on 16 September last year, shortly before a ...
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NewsWizz explains diversity rationale behind cabin crew-to-pilot initiative
While the air transport downturn is triggering pilot reductions at multiple airlines, budget carrier Wizz Air is persisting with a new training scheme for cabin crew who want to pursue a career in the cockpit. Wizz plans to start its first course around November-December, with a target of 20 cabin ...
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NewsTailwind indicated before Air India 737’s fatal ‘table-top’ overrun
Indian investigators probing the fatal Boeing 737-800 overrun at Kozhikode are likely to examine whether tailwinds might have further complicated a night landing in wet conditions, at an airport classified by the country’s regulator as ‘critical’ owing to its table-top design. At least 18 occupants of the Air India Express ...
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NewsAir India Express 737-800 breaks up in Kozhikode excursion
Both pilots of an Air India Express Boeing 737-800 are among 17 fatalities after the aircraft suffered a runway excursion and broke up after landing at Kozhikode. The airline has disclosed that 190 occupants, including six crew members, were on board the jet. Neither pilot survived the accident, the carrier ...
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NewsAtlas 767 probe sees potential to adapt military terrain-escape system
Loss of an Atlas Air Boeing 767-300F in Texas last year has led investigators to highlight the potential for adapting military automatic ground collision-avoidance technology to civil aircraft. The aircraft dived into a lake after failing to recover from an excessive pitch-down input by the first officer, in response to ...
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NewsSimulated evacuation must adapt to bag-retrieval menace: inquiry
UK investigators believe evacuation simulations for aircraft certification are inadequate, and should be adapted to provide a more realistic model of passenger behaviour, particularly regarding retrieval of cabin baggage. Obstruction of evacuation routes by passengers’ stopping to collect personal belongings has long been a concern of safety regulators, and remains ...
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OpinionSafety must not be allowed to slip during the ‘new normal’
Aviation safety depends in part on a stable operating environment, but a pandemic and growing geopolitical tension will undermine some longstanding assumptions
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NewsWizz Air hands task of safety oversight to EASA
Wizz Air has brought its operations under the European Union Aviation Safety Agency as its single safety oversight authority. The Hungarian-based carrier has taken advantage of European Union legislation intended to enhance supervision as airline business models have changed. This legislation says that the carriers with operational bases in several ...
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NewsAtlas 747-400F sustains pod-strike on three engines in Shanghai
One of US cargo operator Atlas Air’s Boeing 747-400Fs has sustained a treble engine pod-strike while landing at Shanghai in China. Preliminary information from the US FAA states that the aircraft (N408MC) struck the ground with both left-hand engine pods, as well as the outboard right-hand pod. The 22-year old ...
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NewsUS lifts blanket ‘do not travel’ advisory for citizens
The US State Department has lifted its blanket global travel advisory warning citizens not to travel overseas after determining that the situation around the spread of the coronavirus has improved enough globally to be able to differentiate between potential travel destinations.
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NewsUnnecessary A320 evacuation risked passengers’ being injured by engines
Passengers risked being sucked into the operating engine of a Lauda Airbus A320 after commencing an unnecessary evacuation of the aircraft at London Stansted, investigators have determined. The aircraft (OE-LOA) suffered a contained failure of its left-hand CFM International CFM56 powerplant during the take-off roll on 1 March last year. ...
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NewsFAA fines Boeing $1.25m for ODA violations
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has proposed fining Boeing a total of $1.25 million in civil penalties for several violations of rules that allow aircraft manufacturers to perform some FAA functions.
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NewsJu 52 probe yields enough evidence to explain fatal Alps crash
Swiss investigators believe they have sufficient evidence to explain the accident sequence which resulted in the fatal crash of a Junkers Ju 52 during a pleasure flight in the Alps two years ago. The aircraft had entered a valley basin near Piz Segnas, entering a left turn at the northern ...
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NewsTrigana 737F captain dismissed go-around call before hard-landing accident
Indonesian investigators have determined that a Trigana Air Service Boeing 737-300F captain dismissed go-around suggestions during a visual approach in poor weather, before a hard landing that destroyed the aircraft’s undercarriage and caused it to veer off the runway. The twinjet (PK-YSY) was conducting a visual approach to Wamena airport’s ...
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NewsFAA proposes four design changes to 737 Max in new AD
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has suggested four key design changes to the beleaguered Boeing 737 Max in order to address safety issues that led to its almost 17-month grounding following two fatal crashes that killed 346 people.
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NewsUN An-74 badly damaged in Mali landing accident
One of Utair Group’s freighter aircraft, an Antonov An-74 TK-100, has been substantially damaged in an accident at Gao in eastern Mali. The United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilisation Mission in Mali – known as MINUSMA – says the aircraft was landing at Gao after arriving from the capital, Bamako, at ...
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OpinionLogic behind bad decisions underpins Smartwings 737 incident
Although an airline captain’s decision to proceed on a flight from Greece to Prague with just one engine may seem incomprehensible from the outside, his reasoning is likely to be all-too familiar
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NewsUncoordinated government response to coronavirus hinders recovery: experts
As the coronavirus pandemic drags on, air passengers have become accustomed to social distancing rules and other safety measures, but industry experts say uncoordinated government responses continue to prevent the industry from meaningful recovery.