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1990
1990 - 0071.PDF
OPERATIONS: AIR TRANSPORT sales set new record Major airliner manufacturers: orders and deliveries in 1989 ATR ATR42 72 ATR total Airbus A300-600 A310 A320 A321 A330 A340 Airbus total Boeing 737-300 -400 ' -500 unspecified 747-100/SP -200 -300 \ -400 757 767-200 -300 unspecified Boeing jets Boeing de Havilland Canada Dash 8-100 Dash 8-300 BdHC total British Aerospace BAe146 BAe ATP BAe total Fokker Fokker100- Fokker 50 Fokker total McDonnell Douglas MD-80 MD-90 MD-11 MDC total Orders Options Commitments Deliveries 68 40 39 4 107 4 54 6 24 33 3 3 126 6 58 20 20 89 107 73 81 54 421 162 89 105 131 s,.-' 89 35 57 57 244 1 1 3 3 1 63 41 227 5 7 8 78 29 40 887 284 38 47 66 13 104 60 48 36 22 11 70 47 119 94 24 25 4 7 144 98 51 178 50 30 . * 208 50 Note; these sales figures are Flight assessments. Legal status of orders is not guaranteed: Pilot error to blame for airline safety standstill in the 1980s Fokker's sales were a record: orders and options totalled 242, against 104 for 1988. The year provided the Dutch company with its biggest-ever single con tract—American Airlines' order for 75 Fokker 100s, with another 75 on option. Home production is to be ex panded because of"an expected high demand for 100-seat fanjets over the coming years". The new production line will produce 67 aircraft a year by early 1993. The total Fokker 100 orderbook now stands at 209 firm and 173 on option. The Fokker 50 won three new customers last year plus repeat orders from five: these totalled 25 orders and four options, bringing the twin turboprop's orderbook up to 117 firm con tracts and 18 options. Annual production rate is to rise from the current 30, to 34 in 1991. The number delivered at the end of December was 64. Boeing and Airbus last year won firm orders worth respec tively $46.75 billion and $34 billion. Orders will not continue at this rate because the world's airlines have, in the past three years particularly, gone a long way towards providing for their fleet expansion and replacement needs until the late 1990s. • World airline safety has stood still for the last ten years, according to an in-depth analysis of accident figures in this week's Flight International. Airlines believe that a high level of pilot error in particular, and human factors in general, is preventing airline safety from showing the improvements of the 1970s. Decade-on-decade, the likeli hood of (non-USSR) scheduled passengers being involved in a fatal accident have almost halved; for charter passengers they are one-third of those of the 1970s (see P 48). Last year, however, was bad for airline safety (see P 42). More than 2,000 people died on air liners in 1985, the decade's worst year, but 1989 comes a close second, with nearly 1,800 fatal ities. This contributes to the 1980s' safety standstill which is worrying industry. Even deducting those fatal events which resulted from "unlawful interference" (sabo tage and military action), 1,450 people died in 51 accidents last year, compared with a decade annual average of 1,056 deaths in 37 accidents. Aircrew error is a primary factor in more than 66% of seri ous accidents—those causing fatalities or aircraft total loss; in 1988 it caused 80% of these. In accidents where mechanical or technical failure of some kind is the primary cause, the result involves fatalities or hull write off in fewer than a third of all cases. Last year aircrew error proved to be a major factor in 34 out of 51 fatal accidents, and in 1,132 out of 1,450 deaths. • COME AND SA VOUR THE EXOTIC ORIENT If you are looking for new aerospace markets. . . Or, looking for new sources of supply. . . Or even, looking for new engineering/ maintenance capabilities. . . You will find them all at: ASIAN AER SPACE'90 ' SINGAPORE Feb 14-18 1990 Plan your visit today. You never can tell what spicy opportunities await you. - i* For your free trade pass please contact: Cahners Exposition Group, Singapore Tel: 2711013. Fax: 274 4666. Tlx: 39200 FLIGHT INTERNATIONAL 17-23 January 1990
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