All Safety News – Page 1233
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Shanghai Airlines has concluded a 10-year lease deal with International Lease Finance (ILFC) for four Boeing 737-800s. The aircraft will be delivered between September 2001 and September 2002. Southern Air is expanding its Boeing 747-200 freighter fleet with the acquisition of two more ex-Lufthansa, General Electric CF6-powered examples in mid-2000. ...
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Russian airline passenger numbers continue to slip
Russia's 323 airlines carried 21.46 million passengers last year, says the Federal Service of Air Transport - a 3.9% drop compared with the previous year, and the tenth successive fall since 1990's high of 90.7 million passengers (for Russia alone). Passenger load factors rose by an average 3.5 points, ...
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Swissair in the hunt for Thai following codeshare move
Chris Jasper/ZURICH Swissair is launching a codeshare deal with Thai Airways International in a move that casts doubt over Thai's long-term future within the Star Alliance. The Asian carrier is due to be partially privatised through the sale of a 23% stake - with 14% going to a ...
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Frequency protection
An industry-wide group comprising airlines, airports, pilots, air traffic controllers and regulatory bodies has formed a coalition and finalised an industry position designed to protect aviation's essential radio frequencies, in preparation for the International Telecommunication Union World Radiocommunication Conference in May. Meeting in London on 9-10 March, industry associations, including ...
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Taiwan airlines push to improve safety record
David Learmount/AMSTERDAM Chief executives of Taiwan's 14 airlines are to meet near Taipei for a two-day brainstorming session on flight safety on 6-7 April, says China Airlines (CAL) flight safety director Capt Samson Yeh. This will be the first time that such a meeting, led by Taiwan's Civil Aviation ...
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Raytheon pins down cause of persistent WAAS alarms
Graham Warwick/WASHINGTON DC Raytheon has determined the sources of false alarms plaguing the wide-area augmentation system (WAAS). The impact of the problems on certification of the system has not been announced, as the US Federal Aviation Administration has yet to select from several schedule options on offer, says the ...
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Ayling bails out as British Airways slump takes its toll
Emma Kelly/LONDON British Airways chairman Lord Marshall took over the running of the airline on 10 March with the resignation of chief executive Bob Ayling. Marshall will take on the role of chief executive while a successor is sought. Ayling leaves BA after four years as chief executive and ...
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Upbeat Cathay considers new aircraft order
Andrzej Jeziorski/HONG KONG Cathay Pacific Airways is to announce an order for new aircraft to serve Asian routes by mid-May. The move comes as the Hong Kong carrier revealed what analysts call a "very strong financial result" for last year. David Turnbull, Cathay's deputy chairman and chief executive, ...
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Television to go live on JetBlue
JetBlue Airways will launch Sextant In-Flight Systems/Harris' LiveTV service on its first two Airbus A320s this month. The New York Kennedy-based airline will be the first carrier to introduce the joint venture's live broadcast satellite service and the first to offer live broadcast television service across its fleet. The ...
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Southwest and Transbrasil 737 Classics overrun landings
Boeing 737 classics operated by Southwest Airlines and Transbrasil have been substantially damaged in landing overruns in the USA and Brazil. The Southwest 737-300 (N668SW) was operating on a flight on 5 March from Las Vegas to Burbank, near Los Angeles, with 142 people on board. The US National Transportation ...
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ESA selects flexi-mission candidates
The European Space Agency's (ESA) science advisers have proposed six new space science missions to be considered for ESA's "flexi-mission" series, due to be launched between 2005 and 2009. The flexi-missions were introduced in 1997 to allow two missions to be funded for the price of one former medium-class ...
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Airsys ATM consortium to carry on EC research into airspace capacity
Emma Kelly/LONDON The European Commission (EC) has awarded an Airsys ATM-led consortium a contract to continue a datalink evaluation programme which is ultimately aimed at increasing airspace capacity and safety, reducing air traffic controller workload and improving air traffic flow planning. The EC is contributing €2 million ($1.9 ...
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Air transport 'contributes' to warming
Commercial aviation contributes significantly to global warming, and the problem will worsen with industry growth despite technical improvements, a US General Accounting Office (GAO) report has concluded. The Congressional watchdog agency found that, in the USA, aviation emissions in 1997 accounted for only about 3% of greenhouse gases and ...
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Boeing unwraps avionics upgrade technique
Boeing has demonstrated a low-cost avionics upgrade technique that allows existing software to run unmodified on new commercial processors. The technique involves a computer program which "wraps" around the legacy software and allows it to operate with new commercial software and hardware. Boeing's demonstrations involved the C-17 Globemaster ...
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Warrior gears up for Centaur challenge
Warrior (Aero-Marine) has secured half of the required investment from North American and UK-based sources to fund development and certification of its single-engined Centaur light seaplane. The £15 million ($22 million) cash injection, derived from a mixture of private and public investment, is conditional on the UK company providing ...
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Boeing goes ahead with 777 variants but declines to reveal customers
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES Boeing is to go ahead with the ultra-long range 777-200LR and -300ER derivatives, previously called the 777 200X/300X. The company plans to deliver the first aircraft in September 2003. News of the long-delayed launch was dampened by Boeing's refusal to name a launch customer. Candidates ...
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Power problem delays IMAGE
Concern about the condition of DC-to-DC power converters on the Imager for Magnetopause-to-Aurora Global Exploration (IMAGE) satellite has delayed the 15 March launch of the spacecraft aboard a Boeing Delta II from Vandenberg AFB, California. Launch preparations for the $153 million Lockheed Martin-built satellite have been halted after an ...
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Star seeks busier fleet
Julian Moxon/PARIS French charter carrier Star Airlines has isolated improved aircraft utilisation as the key to matching 1999's financial performance during the current year. Star posted an after-tax profit of Fr11.72 million ($1.75 million) last year, up 128% on 1998, with operating profit up even more sharply, increasing to ...
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Air France has signed a five-year lease agreement with International Lease Finance (ILFC) for three General Electric GE90-powered Boeing 777-200ERs. The aircraft will be delivered between April 2001 and February 2002. Brymon Airways has taken delivery of the first of seven Embraer RJ-145s it has on order. Sabena has firmed ...
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Small increase in US accidents revealed
Preliminary US airline accident figures for 1999 indicate a slight increase in the total accident rate. The statistics, from the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), reveal the accident numbers and rate for US Federal Aviation Regulation Part 121 (large aircraft) scheduled operators were up slightly on 1998, with 48 ...