PHOENIX-BASED AIRLINE Training Center Arizona (ATCA), a Lufthansa subsidiary, is providing first-officer training for Syrian Arab Airlines. ATCA says, that it was selected by Syrianair after the Arab carrier, evaluated several US flight schools.
Students are being trained to US commercial pilot's-licence standard in a programme involving ground school, fixed-based simulators and Raytheon Beech single- and twin-engined aircraft.
Source: Flight International
Brazilian investigators have recovered both flight recorders from the Voepass ATR 72-500 which crashed in the vicinity of Sao Paulo, with no survivors among the 62 occupants. Air accident investigation authority CENIPA, part of the Brazilian air force, says it is “already in possession” of the cockpit-voice and flight-data recorders ...
Brazilian carrier Voepass has confirmed that one of its ATR 72 turboprops has been involved in an accident while operating to Sao Paulo Guarulhos airport. The aircraft had been conducting flight 2Z2283 from Cascavel on 9 August. Voepass says the aircraft came down in the vinicity of Vinhedo, to the ...
Investigators probing the failure and separation of a Cargolux Boeing 747-400F’s body main landing-gear assembly at Luxembourg last year have found evidence that components in its inner shock-strut cylinder failed. But while a previous similar occurrence involving a Nippon Cargo Airlines 747-400F at Amsterdam in September 2005 was traced to ...
