All Safety News – Page 1243
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AmTran examines 727 replacements
Paul Lewis/WASHINGTON DC American Trans Air (AmTran) has purchased nine Saab 340Bs from American Eagle to re-equip its subsidiary feeder Chicago Express in the run-up to a larger decision on acquiring between 30 and 34 new narrowbody jets to replace its fleet of Boeing 727s. Chicago Express has ...
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Report into Britannia 757 crash poses questions
A fast, high sink-rate, nosewheel-first touchdown in a storm started a sequence which led a Britannia Airways Boeing 757 to swerve off a runway at Girona, Spain, and break up, says the UK Air Accident Investigation Branch (AAIB). There were two serious injuries in the crash last September. After ...
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Damaged Crossair recorders go to Canada for analysis
Andrew Doyle/MUNICH The damaged flight data and cockpit voice recorders recovered from the wreckage of the Crossair Saab 340B which crashed shortly after take-off from Zurich on 10 January have been dispatched to the Transport Safety Board of Canada (TSB) for analysis. All 10 passengers and crew were ...
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Proton engine-maker accused of neglect
Tim Furniss/LONDON The Voronezh Mechanical Engine Plant has been accused of neglect following investigations into two similar Proton launch failures on 5 July and 27 October, with Russian communications satellites. The review board, set up to establish the cause of the failure on 27 October, says: "The most ...
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GE Capital expands commercial training
GE Capital is expanding its commercial flight training business under agreements with Thomson-CSF and Cathay Pacific Airways. Under a joint venture agreement, Thomson-CSF will transfer its Orbit training centre operations to GE Capital Aviation Training (GECAT), which also operates the former Raytheon/Hughes training centre at London Gatwick. GECAT ...
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Late boom lifts 1999 simulator figures
A flurry of orders in the final months of the year boosted commercial flight simulator sales for 1999 beyond 50 machines. Thomson Training & Simulation (TTS) ended the year with its largest order ever, from Saudi Arabian Airlines to build or upgrade nine full-flight simulators. The long-expected order included ...
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Transatlantic Cabair
UK pilot training group Cabair has contracted a training base in Orlando, Florida, to educate pilots to the newly adopted European Joint Aviation Requirements for flight crew licensing syllabus. Orlando Flight Training, which uses Piper Warriors, will be available to any trainee pilot from the UK. Source: Flight International
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Airbus unveils details of A330 derivative
Julian Moxon/PARIS Airbus Industrie has revealed details of the A330-100 derivative it is offering airlines to replace the A310 and A300-600 medium-range airliners. Demand for a new aircraft in the 165-250-seat range is growing, and Airbus and Boeing are preparing solutions based around the A330-200 and 777 (Flight ...
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AMR eyes Aerolineas Argentinas shares in ownership argument
American Airlines parent AMR is bidding for Spanish holding company SEPI's majority stake in Aerolineas Argentinas as it strives to diffuse a row over ownership of the carrier. A source at American says AMR is heading a consortium of investors negotiating with SEPI and its sleeping partners, Merrill Lynch ...
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Disaster ditching
An Avisto Shorts 360-300 ditched in the sea on approach to Marsa el Brega, northern Libya, on 13 January. Loss of power in both engines had been reported by the captain. As Flight International went to press, there were 19 survivors among the 41 people on board. The aircraft was ...
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Russia considers export rule change
Russian customs authorities are looking to improve regulations concerning the temporary export of aircraft, to help alleviate problems suffered during offshore operations of Russian freighters. The effort to revise the regulations follows meetings between the authorities and the Russian chapter of the International Air Cargo Association. The Russian members ...
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ATC upgrade deal clears road to Scotland for Lockheed Martin
David Learmount/LONDON Lockheed Martin Air Traffic Management has won a significant UK National Air Traffic Services (NATS) contract. The deal virtually confirms that it will win the work to build and equip the new Scottish air traffic control centre. The $7 million contract provides a much-needed interim equipment ...
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Workshop
Gemini Air Cargo has contracted Boeing Wichita and Israel Aircraft Industries to undertake freighter conversions of two leased ex-Varig McDonnell Douglas MD-11s. London Heathrow-based British Airways franchise operator British Mediterranean Airways has awarded Monarch Aircraft Engineering a four-year base maintenance contract for its three Airbus A320s. Overhaul specialist Triumph Air ...
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Traffic on the up
Preliminary International Civil Aviation Association results show traffic increased by 5% last year over 1998, and by 6% on international services, measured in tonne-kilometres. A 1998 slowdown saw traffic rise by 1%, with 1999's growth suggesting a move back towards the previous six years' 7% average. Source: Flight International
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Young will head Mars inquiry
Former Lockheed Martin executive Thomas Young has been appointed by NASA to lead the Mars Program Independent Assessment team. It will review the failures of the Mars Climate Orbiter (MCO), Mars Polar Lander (MPL) and the space agency's approach to robotic exploration. The MCO was lost on 23 September and ...
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Clear air ahead for turbulence detector
Honeywell aims to develop a system within three years that will be able to detect clear air turbulence (CAT), for which there are no predictive warning systems available. The company plans to certificate a combined microwave and infrared radar to detect all types of turbulence, including CAT. It has ...
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Urgent GE90 removal starts on worldwide 777-200 fleet
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES Paul Lewis/WASHINGTON DC General Electric has begun removing the first of 90 GE90 engines from the worldwide Boeing 777-200 fleet after turbine blade separations caused two in-flight shutdowns and one turnback. The problems, all of which afflicted 777-200ERs operated by Saudi Arabian Airlines, were caused by ...
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Airports
The Netherlands Government has decided that the construction of an international airport on an offshore island to serve Amsterdam is not feasible. It will instead allow Schiphol Airport to be expanded. Aircraft movements will increase from 420,000 to 600,000 in 10 years, while a sixth runway will be constructed by ...
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Aerospace beats the Y2K bug
Airline, air traffic control and airport reports from around the globe show that the millennium bug has not caused any computer glitches. The exceptions have been with the control of some ageing satellites (see P17). International Air Transport Association (IATA) director general Pierre Jeanniot says: "No Y2K-related incidents were ...
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TWA looks at stretched 757s to replace ageing 767 fleet
Guy Norris/LONG BEACH TWA is "in discussion" over the possible acquisition of Boeing 757-300s as part of a fleetwide modernisation plan aimed at settling the composition of its narrowbodies for the next 10 years. The airline is considering the 240-seat twinjet as a replacement for its ageing 767-200 ...