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OPERATIONS: AIR TRANSPORT No trace of ditched Peruvian 727 airliner USA lines up IFR triple approaches Simulation tests conducted by the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) have dem onstrated that triple simulta neous approaches are feasible at selected airports. Quadruple ap proaches are also anticipated, according to FAA administrator James Busey. Speaking at an airport capacity conference in Washington, Busey said that the test flying of parallel approaches at Memphis and Raleigh-Durham airports is complete. Although the full report will not be released until later this month, he said that "both systems look very good indeed". Simulation for simultaneous instrument approaches follows on airport design team efforts now complete at eight US air ports and under way at a further seven. A third parallel runway at Atlanta could permit triple ap proaches, Busey says. New run ways at Charlotte and Pittsburgh could permit triple approaches at these sites. Distances between runways would at first be very conser vative but Busey says that". . . as we gain experience we can get more aggressive". Although simultaneous ap proaches are site-specific at present, additional simulation will assist in development of standards that could apply to any airport. The FAA chief also reported that the agency has airspace design projects at Boston and Los Angeles and is studying airspace changes at Dallas-Fort Worth and Denver. • NEWS IN BRIEF EL AL TO BERLIN El Al Israel Airlines began scheduled flights to East Berlin on 4 September. Imerflug, the East German airline, has signed an agreement with El Al but will not yet operate flights on the route because of a shortage of aircraft. There will be a weekly Boeing 757 flight from Tel Aviv to Schonefeld Airport. NO debris or other evidence had been sighted 36h after a Faucett Airlines Boeing 727 carrying 16 people ditched into the North Atlantic off Canada's Newfoundland coast on 11 September. The aircraft, which had been wet-leased by Air Malta since April and was returning to the Peruvian airline's operations base in Miami, was 30min late lor its planned fuel and technical stop at Gander when a fuel emer gency was declared. Transport Canada says that at least two commercial airliners received radio calls from the 727 The US Department of Trans portation (DoT) has pro visionally awarded Alaska Airlines and Federal Express rights to establish new services between the USA and the Soviet Union. Only Pan Am now Hies between the two nations. Ruslan charter for An Antonov An-124 Ruslan xVfreighter began a ten-flight Gulf contract by evacuating 451 Bangladeshi refugees and their belongings from Amman to Dacca on 5 September. The charter was arranged by UK's Air Foyle, Antonov's new European agent, following a United Nations appeal for air craft capacity. pilot, reporting low fuel and that he was descending through 10,000 ft (3,000m), intending to ditch. The information was re layed to Gander Area Control Centre (ACC). Canadian ships as well as Ca nadian, US and other aircraft took part in searches of a 750,000km2 area over the next few days. The search centred on a point 300km (160nm) south southeast of Cape Race, the best estimate of the 727's position, assuming that it was on track. The aircraft had not reached radar range from Gander ACC. • If the awards are made perma nent, Federal Express could begin all-cargo services on a North Atlantic route, New York to Moscow-Leningrad and Alaska could start an Anchorage to Magadan and Khabarovsk ser vice on 1 April, 1991. Gulf refugees Flights have been between Amman and Daca so far, with 450 refugees seated on rubber matting outbound each time and lOOt of rice and 5t of tea from Dacca on return. Foyle has been asked to renew the contract but, since this particular Ruslan is due for overhaul on completion, the UK agent is trying to obtain another An-124. India scraps fire- damaged 747 Air India is to scrap a Boeing XY747-200 (VT-EBO) which suffered engine pylon failure on approach to New Delhi on 7 May. The engine had dropped at its intake end, directing jet efflux upwards and causing a serious wing fire. The airline's chairman, Subash Gupte, says: "We struck a good deal with the insurance firm at Lloyds of London and we will be getting $47 million. The aircraft was purchased [new in 1972] for S25 million." Gupte hopes now that India's public investment board will clear the airline to place a formal order for the four planned Rolls- Royce-powered 747-400s. • The DoT has allowed 14 days for interested parties to file objections. The authority would extend the rights for two years. These were the only two lines to apply for the routes. Under a USA-Soviet accord, no more than two carriers may serve the same routes. DoT plans to choose carriers for other routes by mid-February, 1991. • Meanwhile, the Indian Min istry of Civil Aviation is deploy ing more aircraft to double the evacuation rate for Indian na tionals from the Gulf to more than 3,500 daily. The operation now includes four Indian Air lines and Air India Airbus Industrie A300s, four A320s and an Indian Air Force llyushin 11-76. The A320s and 11-76 shut tle between Dubai and Bombay, picking up refugees flown by A300s to Dubai from Amman. D w Federal Express heads for Moscow-Leningrad parcels service Soviet services awarded by USA 12 FLIGHT INTERNATIONAL 19-25 September 1990
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