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AIR TRANSPORT FREIGHTER Antonov An-225 back in service Antonov Airlines has put the An-225 cargo giant back in commercial operations follow ing its resurrection after years in storage, with its first flight being operated from Stuttgart in Germany to Thumrait in southern Oman on 3 January. The aircraft transported 188t of food for US military personnel. The 250t payload An-225 made a second flight on 5 January from Munich to Bishkek, the capital of Kyrgyzstan, transporting over 230t of food. The six-engined derivative of the An-124 was chartered by the UK-based Air Foyle/ HeavyLift joint venture. AIRLINE RELAUNCH Canada 3000 plans return Canada 3000, which ceased operations in November, plans to relaunch in May as a smaller carrier. Founder and president Angus Kinnear is leading the rebirth, with a group of unidenti fied investors who have provided about C$100 million ($63 million) in backing. The initial fleet will be 10 leased Airbus A319/A320s, down from 41 when grounded. Kinnear is negotiating with a number of its former leasing suppliers, including International Lease Finance and GATX. Initially, Canada 3000 will operate in North America before expanding into Europe and other long-haul leisure destinations next year using Airbus A330s. About 1,200 former employees will be rehired. Meanwhile, Air Canada is expanding its Tango discount carrier in eastern Canada, adding flights between Halifax, Montreal, Ottawa and St. John's, Newfoundland. A second dis count airline serving western Canada will be based in Calgary -the hub of its rival Westjet. SAFETY DAVID LEARMOUNT / LONDON The SAS MD-87 crashed into an airport building after the collision sion." The CJ2 pilot read back: "Roger, via R5 and 1013, call you back before reaching main run way." The CJ2 pilot then taxied south on R6 but reported through out that he was on R5. Radio message clues could have prevented Milan accident Pilot took the wrong taxiway in fog, and slack radio procedures hid the mistake The Italian investigators' interim report on the Milan Linate runway incursion accident shows that both the Cessna Citation CJ2 pilot and the ground controller missed sev eral clues in their radio exchanges indicating that the CJ2 was taking the wrong taxiway in fog (Flight International, 16-22 October 2001). In the 8 October 2001 accident, a Scandinavian Airlines (SAS) Boeing MD-87 taking off on run way 36 and a private CJ2 that entered the runway collided, killing all 114 people on both air craft and four on the ground. The CJ2 pilot was ordered: "D-VX [the CJ2] taxi north via R5, QNH 1013. Call me back at the stop bar of the main runway exten- SAFETY EMMA KELLY / LONDON BETA yields results A European aerospace industry team has completed the first phase in a European Commission-funded programme aimed at demonstrating the ben efits of advanced surface movement guidance and control systems (A-SMGCS) at major airports. The three-year Benefit Evaluation by Testing A-SMCGS (BETA) research project involves 17 organisations, including Park Air Systems' NOVA division in Norway as system integrator and main industry partner; aerospace research organisations DLR of Germany, the Netherlands' NLR and Qinetiq of the UK; German air traffic control provider DFS; Germany's Hamburg air port and the Czech Republic's Prague Ruzyne International Airport; and airline partners British Airways and CSA Czech Airlines. The first phase was intended to identify user benefits from a full-scale operational implementation of A-SMGCS. Surveillance data is used from five different sensor systems - approach surveillance radar, two types of surface movement radar, Mode-S multilateration and automatic dependent surveil lance-broadcast - to show controllers the airport surface and surrounding airspace. The trial involved new controller positions, incorporating electronic flight strips and clearance delivery by digital data link, with Park's runway incursion monitoring and conflict alert subsystem notifying controllers of a potentially hazardous situation. The programme has already demonstrated the benefits of improved situa tional awareness, the potential to reduce disruption and maintain throughput in poor visibility, and environmental benefits, says Park. Development work has started for phase two which will involve improve ments to human-machine interfaces and operational procedures, the addition of new taxi routeings, departure sequencing and route deviation alerting features. Testing at Prague starts in June, followed by Hamburg in September, says Park. The project is part of European efforts to improve runway safety after a similar focus in the USA. BETA results will be used to support the develop ment of A-SMGCS standards. The factual report notes that the controller did not challenge the omission of the words north, stop bars, and extension from the CJ2's readback, or note that he referred to reaching main runway. R5 does not intersect with the runway - it goes north from the general avia tion apron, then turns east and passes clear of the north end of runway 18/36 and joins the main apron. The visibility was 100m in fog, and in the absence of surface movement radar, the controller had to rely upon the pilot carrying out instructions precisely. As the CJ2 continued taxiing along R6, which leads to runway 36 just north of its centre, the pilot should have realised that what he was seeing did not tally with what the controller told him. Similarly, when the controller asked for the CJ2's position the pilot replied "approaching the runway", which the controller did not challenge. Meanwhile the SAS aircraft had been told to change from ground to tower frequency, so the CJ2 pilot, as he approached the runway and received clearance to "con tinue your taxi on the main apron", did not hear the MD-87 accept take-off clearance. The two aircraft collided just as the MD-87 lifted off the runway. The SAS aircraft had its right main gear wiped off and starboard wing leading edge damaged. The gear damaged the right flap, then knocked the No 2 engine off its pylon, and the aircraft crashed. 16 15-21JANUARY 2002 FLIGHT INTERNATIONAL www.flightinternational.com
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