Spurred by the mid-air collision between a Saudi Arabian Boeing 747-100 and a Kazakh Ilyushin Il-76 in November 1996 near New Delhi, India, the US Federal Aviation Administration is investigating the feasibility of employing used transponders to reduce the risk of collision. The shelved transponders were those replaced by traffic-alert and collision avoidance systems (TCAS), with integral mode-S transponders when the USA decided to make TCAS compulsory.
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 61 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 ...
