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Qantas group wins ANZ carriers Cosmonauts Titov and Manarov lived aboard Mir for a year Record breakers return from space A consortium including Austra lian flag carrier Qantas has defeated British Airways in its attempt to buy into newly privatised Air New Zealand. Qantas quickly stressed that it regarded the airline's flag- carrier status and New Zealand identity as major assets, and had no desire to merge with it. Following the sale, worth NZ$660 million ($422-8 million), New Zealand group Brierly Investments will own 65 per cent of the shares, but will immediately offer 30 per cent to ANZ staff and the New Zealand public, leaving it with 35 per cent of the airline. Of the remainder, Qantas holds 19-9 per cent, Japan Air Lines 7 • 5 per cent, and Ameri can Airlines 7-5 per cent. The price was substantially lower than predicted. ANZ chief executive Jim Scott is now waiting to see what the airline partners' promises of "enchancement" will mean in practice. He says that, because ANZ was not involved in the details of the sale process, contracts will London cha The UK Civil Aviation Author ity (CAA) is inviting comment on proposals to extend con trolled airspace on the eastern edge of the London Terminal Control Area (LTMA). CAA says its main objective is to provide positive control oY increased traffic in and out of London City and Biggin Hill Airports. The extensions are also needed for introduction of the CAA's Central Control Function, which is designed to increase LTMA capacity by 30 per cent in the 1990s. Eutelsat acce Aerospatiale will accelerate delivery of the third and subsequent Eutelsat II commu nications satellites to facilitate commercial operation of a six- satellite European network, incorporating four of the new spacecraft, by the end of 1991. By then, two of the four Eutelsat Is currently operated by the European Telecommunications Satellite now have to be negotiated. Scott also suggests that unsuccessful bidders could still provide "commercial opportu nities" for ANZ. He says: "Our requirement for strong northern hemisphere partners has not gone away." • Scandinavian Airlines Sys tems (SAS) says that its bid to buy 40 per cent of Argentinian flag carrier Aerolineas Argen- tinas still stands, despite the fail ure of its first attempt. The Argentine Government withdrew its privatisation Bill for the airline in the face of vociferous opposition. It will now invite international bids, and is understood to welcome a further offer from SAS. SAS says its offer now stands at $160 million for the same 40 per cent, but, with an Argentine election due in May, it does not want to pursue the issue until Argentina is more politically settled. The deal is an important part of SAS' long-haul plans, designed to establish the Scan dinavian airline as one of the five largest global carriers in the late 1990s. ges airspace The changes mean that, in a triangular area west of Detling, the base of controlled airspace is lowered from 3,500ft to 2,500ft. In a larger, roughly rhomboid, area east of Detling the base drops from 5s 500ft to 3,500ft. General aviation should benefit from the simultaneous scrapping of almost all the over land section of the Cross Chan nel Special Rules Area. Interested parties have until February 3 to respond, and the target for introduction is April 6. crating Organisation will have reached the end of their lives. The other two will remain in use during the transition period before the fifth and sixth Eutelsat lis are delivered. Four of the new craft are on order, with the first scheduled to be launched in early 1990. the fifth will be ordered before March this year, and the sixth is expected to be procured before 1990. Soviet space endurance record holders Vladimir Titov and Musa Manarov returned to Earth aboard Soyuz TM6 on December 21, with Frenchman Jean-Loup Chretien, after 366 days in space. The cosmonauts appeared to be in good health after touchdown at Dzhezkaz- gan in Kazakhstan. The landing had been delayed by one orbit after cautious Soviet officials, recall ing the Soyuz TM5 hitch last September, decided to check TM6's computer after the spacecraft had separated from the Mir space station. The first cosmonauts to spend a year in space on one spaceflight, Titov and Manarov brought to more than 3,000 the Philippines' Defence Secretary Fidel Ramos escaped injury on December 19 when a Fokker F.27 taking him and 15 others from Manila to the provinces crashed and burned on landing at Catarman in Samar Island. One of two pilots aboard was slightly injured. The aircraft evidently hit rough weather and developed engine trouble on the 290km flight. A day later, one of four Huey helicopters sent to collect the Ramos party crashed into the sea, injuring two of its four crew, who were all rescued by total number of Soviet man-days in space, spread over 65 completed missions. This is six times the number achieved by the United States. Titov and Manarov were launched towards Mir aboard Soyuz TM4 on December 21, 1987, and performed three spacewalks during their record. Chretien, who was launched in Soyuz TM7 on November 26, completed a 25-day mission. Should France choose to pay at least $10 million for its next manned mission this might take place next April, when Michel Tognini could accompany two Soviet cosmonauts to replace the resident Mir crew of Valeri Polyakov, Alexander Volkov, and Sergei Krikalev. fishermen and the other aircraft in the mission. Ramos dismissed suggestions that either incident was an attempt on his life, and said that the Fokker, in trying to land against a strong wind, had skid ded off a wet runway and into a pile of earth. "It was just a combination of adverse flying conditions that we encoun tered." Ramos, a former general, has put down five attempts to topple the government of President Corazon Aquino, many led or backed by right-wing members of the forces. Philippines military leader survives crash 16 FLIGHT INTERNATIONAL, 7 January 1989
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