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72 Cranfield courses for air transport managers THE College of Aeronautics, Cran- field Institute of Technology, plans to offer what it claims to be two unique courses* in air transport from Octo ber this year. The first is a one-year MSc in air transport management. Course director David Yeomans says that the course has been designed in response to "the need of technologists, engineers and other specialists in the air transport industry for manage ment training." He tells Flight that "it is intended to give managers greater understanding and experience of the changes and problems that occur in the air transport business, the prin cipal objective being to provide a relevant, advanced management edu cation for the international civil aviation industry." The new MSc brings together ex pertise from the general management course in business administration taught in the Cranfield School of Management and the aeronautical and air transport skills and expertise of the College of Aeronautics. Cranfield will continue to offer master's degrees in air transport engineering, aircraft design and aerodynamics. The second new course is the ten- week "Air transport operations," to be held between October 2 and December 8; the cost will be £1,850 in cluding accommodation. Course direc tor Andy Hofton says that "the aim is to give participants a broad under standing of all the functions of the operational side of an airline." Saying that the airline business has been described as a process of "fill them, fly them, fix them," he adds: "All these are operational functions, and we shall be stressing the need for specialists to co-ordinate their activi ties and work closely together if an airline is to be efficient, profitable and capable of offering an on-time ser vice." * Further details from College of Aero nautics, Cranfield Institute of Tech nology, Cranfield, Bedford MK43 OAL, England; telephone Bedford (0234) 750111, extension 276; telex 825072. 1977 hijackings highest for five years THERE were more hijackings in 1977 than in any year since 1972, accord ing to figures collected by the FA A.* In 1977 there were 30 attempts to hi jack civil transport aircraft, more than twice the number recorded in 1976. In presenting the figures to Congress, FAA Administrator Langhorne Bond said that 21 of the attempts were the result of weak passenger screening procedures that allowed weapons to be taken aboard the aircraft. Only five of the 30 attempts involved US-regis tered aircraft, and none of the US hijackers used weapons that had been taken through the screening system. According to Langhorne Bond, the figures show how well screening works in the US, while in other parts of the world "further improvements are necessary to assure universal applica- CIVIL AVIATION CRIMINAL INCIDENTS Year Deaths Injuries Total incidents Hijackings*** Foreign USA 1968* 1969* 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 2 35 92 31 159 104 170 88 227 129* 2 7 32 9 96 75 59 162 200 68 30 92 82 73 88 73 62 64 55 13 47 56 31 31 20 19 13 13 25 17 40 25 25 27 1 3 6 2 5 tion of effective international security measures." The US total of five hijackings was the highest for any nation. Neverthe less, the report says that Europe and the Middle East remain the areas of highest risk. Screening in the US detected 985 hand guns and resulted in 440 arrests during the last six months of 1977. • The airlines involved in the 1976 hijacking of an Air France A300 from Athens to Entebbe are being sued in American courts for a total of $275 million. * Data taken from the Federal Aviation Administration's Semi-Annual Report to Congress on the Effectiveness of the US Civil Aviation Security Program, published by the Department of Trans portation, Washington 20591. * Statistical data before 1970 are approximations. December 4, 1977. *** Scheduled carriers. ** Includes 100 persons killed in crash ot hijacked Malaysian airliner on FLIGHT International, S July 1978 US outlines Concorde noise rules THE FIRST sixteen production Con cordes will be allowed to operate to US airports indefinitely under noise rules announced last week by US Secretary of Transportation Brock Adams. The new rules, which take effect on July 31, are the result of extensive public hearings. They leave the ultimate decision as to whether Concorde is permitted to use particu lar fields in the hands of airport officials. The rules include four important provisions; • Operators are forbidden from making any modifications which would make any of the first 16 Con cordes any noisier. • Supersonic transports will continue to be required to fly at subsonic speed over US territory and will be pro hibited from creating sonic booms when approaching or leaving the United States. • There will be a US curfew limiting SST take-offs and landings to 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. • All future SSTs must meet Federal noise standards at least as stringent as those applied to subsonic jets. The US Government has identified 13 US cities as possible Concorde des tinations, according to Adams, though only four of them—Washington, New York, Philadelphia and Dallas/Fort Worth—are likely to be served before 1985. In announcing his decision the Sec retary of Transportation said: "Con corde is a good faith effort by two of our steadfast allies to develop a new generation of aircraft technology. There is no evidence that this tech nology, as limited by these rules, poses a threat to our public health and safety—and we have found no such evidence during 16 months of testing. Therefore, in the spirit of fairness the United States is applying the same principles used when jet aircraft were first introduced by admitting these first 16 Concordes. We can, on the other hand, take steps to ensure that future SSTs be made to conform with the more stringent noise rules now in effect. That is what we have done today." DC-8-62/63 Airworthiness Directive issued THE US Federal Aviation Administra tion has issued an Airworthiness Directive (AD) requiring the inspec tion and modification of the forward wing spars of the 160 DC-8-62/63s in service. The AD follows the discovery of fatigue damage in late-model DC-8s (see Flight for June 17, page 1834). The grounding of DC-8s for the $200,000/aircraft modification is un likely to result in much disruption of airline schedules.
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