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Mm TRANSPORT Safety review targets airline managements DAVID LEARMOUNT/GENEVA ANEW INDUSTRY review of cockpit human-factors is stress ing die need to sell safety improve ments to airline managements. The Icarus Committee on Human Factors in Aviation says: "Safety initiatives will continue to be challenged until their benefits can be determined in financial terms." The committee proposes direct approaches to top airline man agers, to persuade them that there are commercial benefits in adopt ing positive safety policies. The Airbus Industrie-spon sored committee, consisting of members from a cross-section of the air-transport industry and run by the Flight Safety Foundation, had a mandate to research the rea sons behind accident-causing errors made by well-trained air crew. The findings were presented at the Interavia Air Forum, Geneva, on 18 October. The committee declares, among its 18 conclusions and nine recommendations, that "...sound aircrew decisions need support and encouragement that the sys tem does not always provide". The Icarus committee has pre pared a management-information package, The Dollars and Sense of Airline Safety. It also proposes that travelling "road shows" — consist ing of one or two experts — should visit carriers, to brief management on safety issues, and that this activi ty should be backed up by short, concise, notices targeting senior management, to maintain their safety awareness. • Icarus co-chairman Jean Pinet says he believes that the major air liner manufacturers must meet to consider the effects of increasing automation on flight safety. Airbus comments that "...a neutral body like Icarus would be the ideal forum for such a study". • US airlines make drug plea US AIRLINES ARE to renew pressure to have random drug-testing of employees re duced after the fourth consecutive year in which fewer than 1% of staff tested positive. Nearly 269,000 aviation person nel, including mechanics, security screeners, flight attendants, dis patchers, flightdeck personnel and air-traffic controllers were tested at random during 1993. Airlines, which resent die cost of the exercise, say results show that illicit drug use among their workers is not a problem. They are lobby ing the US Federal Aviation Administration, to have the required sampling number dropped from 50% of workers holding safety-related jobs to 10%. As a compromise, the FAA propos es to cut the sample in half — to 25%—by the start of 1995. • 1 s/ir HIIIIHMIM""!"""" " JAT flies its new colours after UN ban lifted YUGOSLAV AIRLINES (JAT) has relaunched its route net work and is flying in a new colour scheme. A Boeing 727 in the new livery is seen here at Belgrade-Surcin Airport. Limited international operations were restarted on 6 October, following the lifting of the air-transport restrictions imposed by the United Nations Security Council as part of its wider trade embargo flight International, 12-18 October). Iranian carrier grows with 727s IRANIAN DOMESTIC carrier Asseman Airlines has acquired four Boeing 727-200s as part of a fleet-expansion programme, says managing director Ali Abedzadeh. By the turn of die century, die com pany intends to have 30 aircraft. Abedzadeh says that the 727s came "from Europe". Industry sources note that Air France recently sold four such aircraft to an undisclosed customer. The US Government usually denies export or re-export licences for the supply of US-origin aircraft and equipment to Iran, although the regulations are applied less stringently to older aircraft such as 727s. Asseman, which carries 1.5 million passengers a year, also operates Fokker F28s. In July, Iranian domestic airline Safiran said tJiat it had bought three secondhand Airbus A300B4s, in a deal wordi $100 million. The company's general manager, Mohammed Baqer, was quoted as saying that the accord had been signed with Aerospatiale, but the French manufacturer denies this. Airbus is to deliver two A300Bs to Iranian flag carrier Iranair. 3 DESTINATIONS • AMERICAN TRANS AIR American Trans Air has selected St Louis as its fourth gateway for year- round scheduled service. Non-stop service from Lambert Field to four Florida points and Las Vegas will begin on 17 December. • EURO DIRECT Euro Direct Airlines has begun a twice-daily service from London Stansted to the new Belgian regional airport at Kortrijk. • CATHAY PACIFIC Cathay Pacific Airlines is to launch a twice-weekly ser vice between Hong Kong and Stockholm, via Frankfurt, from 14 September 1995. A third flight will be added in March. • ABERDEEN-LONDON Aberdeen London Express is due to launch a daily Aberdeen-London Stansted service using a British Aerospace One-Eleven. • BRITISH MEDITERRANEAN British Mediterranean Air ways is inaugurating a daily, non-stop London Heath row-Beirut service. • OMAN AIR Oman Air has launched a once-weekly Muscat-Col ombo, Sri Lanka service. • TRANS MEDITERRANEAN Trans Mediterranean Air ways, of Beirut, and Cargolux of Luxembourg are creating a joint Europe-Lebanon cargo partnership based on a twice- weekly Cargolux Boeing 747- 200 service. • AIR MARKETING Air Marketing Associates is beginning a London Stan- sted-Beijing, weekly, all- cargo Ilyushin 11-76 service on behalf of Aeroflot. • SAS SAS is to restart the Copenhagen-Zagreb service which it suspended in 1991. FLIGHT INTERNATIONAL 2 - 8 November 1994
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