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1962 - 1427.PDF
FLIGHT International, 16 August 1962 223 NEAR MISS OVER KANSAS \N OFFICIAL of the FAA has attributed the 300ft near-miss over central Kansas on August 1 to a "human error" in the radar control centre at Kansas City. The incident, briefly recorded last week, involved a TWA Boeing flying west from St Louis and an American airlines Boeing flying east from Los Angeles. Both aircraft were under radar control at 33,000ft. The pilot of the TWA aircraft saw the approaching American Boeing and, according to the FAA official, made "a slight turn" to avoid a collision. It appears that it was the American Airlines aircraft which should not have been at the same altitude and on the same flight path. The incident was due, he said, to "a human error, not a mechanical error, as far as we can tell." CL-44S REDUCE SEABOARD'S LOSS SEABOARD'S operating results in the first six months of 1962 represent a reduction in operating loss from some S2.3mto S375.000 on comparable revenues. Commenting on these results, Mr Richard M. Jackson, Seaboard's president, paid tribute to the performance of the CL-44. He said that the "efficiency of the aircraft plus an improved sales outlook constituted a basis for realistic optimism for the future." Two new CL-44s were added last month to bring the fleet up to seven, and this should "further enhance earnings in the second half of the current year." Tyne Overhaul Time Approved A 1,200 hour time between over hauls for the RTy.12 Tynes of Flying Tiger and Seaboard World Canadair CL-44s has been approved by the FAA. New ARB Notices The Air Registration Board announces the issue of the following notices to licensed aircraft engineers and owners of civil aircraft; contents list, issue 26; No 6, issue 18; No 7. issue 25. Amendments to BCARs are issued as follows: contents list, issue 32; general foreward, issue 22, section "C," issue 5. Student ATCO Licences As from yesterday, August 15, student air traffic controllers are required to hold the new student air traffic controller's licence. The licence will be valid for 12 months and candidates will have to be at least 18 years' old at the time of appli cation, which should be made to the Secretary, Ministry of Avia tion. ATC 5, 18-29 Woburn Place, London WC1. Three of these cargo lift trucks are used by Cunard Eagle at London Airport. A free running roller conveyor facilitates baggage loading. They comprise Palmer Coach Builder Ltd bodies on Rootes Karrier Bantam left-hand-drive chassis Nepalese DC-3 Found The Royal Nepal Airlines DC-3 missing on a flight on August 1 from Katmandu to New Delhi (Flight International last week) has been found after a two-day search in south-west Nepal. Lufthansa Constellation Grounding Lufthansa have grounded their fleet of seven Lockheed L. 1049Gs following the discovery of cracks in the forward wings near the engine nacelles. As this issue went to press one aircraft had been returned to service and repairs to the others were expected to be completed this week. Cathay Pacific/Thai Pool Agreement As from August 1 Cathay Pacific and Thai International flights between Bangkok-Hong Kong and Bangkok - Rangoon - Calcutta are to be operated in pool. Flights between Bangkok and Hong Kong will be available both on Thai Convair 990s and DC-6Bs. Cathay Pacific flies both the Convair 880 and Electras on this sector. On the Bangkok- Rangoon - Calcutta run Thai will operate DC-6Bs and Cathay Pacific Electras. Silver City Heralds Silver City have applied for Heralds and BAC One-Elevens to be added to the types already authorized by the ATLB for operation on the Blackpool - Channel Islands route. This application is presumably in anticipation of the forthcoming integration of the operations of Silver City and Jersey Airlines, both now members of the British United group. Silver City have also applied for unlimited frequency and the removal of the present seasonal restrictions. Hermes for Air Links? Air Links, the Gatwick-based indepen dent, have applied to the ATLB for an amendment of their E licence to include Hermes. Air Links do not at present own Hermes, but nine appear on the British Register: four owned by Silver City, due to be scrapped at the end of the year; two owned by Skyways; two registered under the name Air Safaris; and one registered in the name of Mercantile Credit Ltd. THE BIG LICENSING DECISION ALTHOUGH the report of his appeal commissioner has been in the hands of the Minister of Aviation since about the middle of J uly. no decision by the new Minister, Mr Julian Amery, is likely much before tne end of this month. Sir .Arthur Hutchinson, the appeal commissioner who last May heard the appeals arising from the Air Transport Licensing Board's award to British United and Cunard Eagle of new domestic and European routes, spent some two months on his report. His recommendations have evidently been carefully scrutinized by the Minister's advisers. There seems no doubt that an all-out effort was made to obtain the Minister's decision before he went on leave at the beginning of this month; but this was not, in the event, possible. The Ministry's task has not been lightened by the fact that one of the senior officials most closely concerned has been in hospital. No great surprises are expected in the commissioner's report, though of course it is up to the Minister, on the advice of his officials, to make the final decision on whether or not Sir Arthur's report is accepted. If, as must be hoped, the original decisions of the Air Transport Licensing Board are upheld, the second phase of the independents' battle for scheduled international services will then begin. This phase, the negotiation of traffic rights, will be the toughest; for as everyone knows, traffic rights are at the disposal of the Ministry of Aviation and the foreign governments concerned. Some negotiations, perhaps the minority, could be completed fairly quickly (the Dutch, for example, are not likely to drive any hard bargains, unless they have taken umbrage at the recent British attitude towards them in Hong Kong). But other negotiations could last for months, possibly a year, or even years. No one yet knows with what degree of enthusiasm the Minister, with his vested interest in the corporations, will negotiate foreign traffic rights to validate independent licences to which these cor porations have strongly objected. Even if the Minister's decision on the appeal goes in the inde pendents' favour, his power over traffic rights still confers on him the power of life or death over independent scheduled-route aspira tions. Footnote It is expected that the annual report of the Air Transport Licensing Board for the year 1961-62—the first full report of the Board—will be published this week.
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