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FLIGHT International, 19 September 1963 493 BEA'S DOMESTIC SURVEY A SPECIAL passenger-survey aimed at improving BEA services within the United Kingdom has recently been carried out over a period of a week. Sixty thousand questionnaire sheets were handed out to passengers by the cabin staff on all flights between London, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Belfast, Manchester, and Birmingham. The 13 basic questions were aimed at finding out the passenger's reason for travelling, what take-off time would have been most suitable, origin and destination points of the journey, mode of transport to the airport, whether booking ahead was inconvenient and if it would be preferred to pay more for a guaranteed seat without booking ahead. Traffic on BEA's domestic services is now running at about 2.5m passengers a year—almost equal to the total for the entire international network. Seven SAM DC-6Bs are now in service following the recent acquis ition of a DC-6B, I-DIMB. Europa, Britannic, and Oceanic are the names which are to be given from October 1 to, respectively, the Nos 1, 2 and 3 passenger buildings at London Heathrow Central. PAA's Atlantic Share In the first seven months of this year PA A claim to have carried just over 25 per cent of transatlantic air traffic compared with just under 22 per cent in the same period last year. Keegan Pioneer Sale The last of three Twin Pioneers purchased by Keegan Aviation Ltd in Iran has been sold to a Norwegian company. The two others were sold in Iceland and Ecuador. A fourth Twin Pioneer has been purchased by Keegan from Borneo. IAC Viscount Accident On September 11 an Indian Airlines Viscount carrying 13 passengers and five crew crashed on a flight from Nagpur to New Delhi. Wreckage was found 32 miles south of Agra, and there were no survivors. Aeronaves DC-8 Order A third Douglas DC-8 has been ordered by Aeronaves de Mexico for delivery in May 1964. A Series 50, it brings the DC-8 order book to 211, of which 187 have been delivered. BEA Moscow Route Profitable BEA's London - Moscow route, says Mr A. H. Milward, chief executive, "is beginning to pay and is now modestly profitable." BEA's relations with Aeroflot are, be said, "very good, in fact they are far better than with some other airlines." Iberia Super Constellation Incident An Iberia Super Constellation on charter to Aviaco with 75 British holidaymakers on board suffered slight damage on the approach to London Gatwick on September 2 when it touched trees at Rusper, about three miles from the end of the runway. BOAC CL-44 Crews have started flight training with Seaboard at New York. Seventeen pilots and engineers and six navigators are involved. Operations begin at the beginning of October. Three six-hour flights a day are being flown. The training includes transatlantic flights. MEA UN Trooping Contract For the third year in succession MEA has been awarded the contract for carrying UN troops from the Gaza Strip to Scandinavia. Some 1,500 men will be moved in both directions by Comet 4Cs from Beirut to Stockholm, Oslo and Copenhagen and in DC-3s and DC-4s between Beirut and El Arish in the Gaza Strip. Musical Vanguard No fewer than seven double bass, eleven 'cellos, two harps, and one tuba comprised part of the luggage when the 116 strong National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain flew recently from London to Warsaw in a BEA Vanguard. The orchestra is on a ten-day tour of Poland and Switzerland, and the Vanguard is one of the few aircraft capable of accommodating a party of these proportions. Swissair Caravelle Postscript Further to the note on page 496, the Swiss Federal Air Office investigating the Caravelle accident on September 4 has said that the primary cause of the accident may have been overheated brakes. A programme to fit temperature sensing indicators is in hand, and all Caravelle operators are being advised. The flight recorder was recovered after the crash, and according to a Swissair spokesman may be of assistance. Air America Laos Crash An unidentified twin-engined aircraft was reported missing by its operator, Air America, over central Laos on September 6. The aircraft was on charter to the Laotian Government, dropping food supplies to refugees, and had three Americans and four Laotians on board. On July 17 an Air America C-46 was missing after a food dropping mission in Laos, with six crew members on board. KLM Pilot Redundancies KLM pilots are being encouraged to resign in advance of the planned dismissal of 150 announced last June, receiving compensation averaging two years' salary. A spokesman for KLM's pilots association, Mr Z. G. Zeyfert, said there was "a surplus of thousands of pilots throughout the world," and there was "hardly any country" where pilots were needed. He said that the USA had a surplus of 1,700, Britain 200 and Australia 300. Sabena 707 Inquiry Report The Belgian Ministry of Communi cations, in a statement concerning the Sabena 707 accident on February 15, 1961, say that according to the findings of the inquiry "the cause of the accident must be sought in a material failure in the control system." Of various theories the most plausible seemed to be defective functioning of the spoilers. Modifications to remedy the deficiencies envisaged have, says the statement, been made. A model showing how the new Moscow Domodedovo Airport will look when it is opened next year, centre of Moscow is also under construction A special electric railway link with the
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