All Safety News – Page 1396
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-plans IHAS avionics safety development
AlliedSignal Aerospace is discussing with airlines and aircraft manufacturers its plan to develop a so-called integrated hazard-avoidance system (IHAS). The IHAS would combine safety-related avionics systems, such as ground-proximity warning system, traffic-alert and collision-avoidance system and windshear detection, in a single box, with the aim of providing a ...
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Emirates' pilot
There is an infectious buzz about Dubai. The country is awash with new construction on a grand scale. Among other things, the tiny Gulf state will soon have the world's tallest and most exotic hotel to add to its tally of international golf courses, race tracks and shopping malls. It ...
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A fine balance
IT IS A BELIEF UNIVERSALLY held among airline managers that, in an upturn, their own particular airline will perform better than its competitors, and that in a downturn it will suffer less. In general, this is bunkum, but it is an unfortunate truth that it is on the basis of ...
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737-700 reaches new heights
The Next-generation Boeing 737-700 has reached an altitude of 41,000ft (12,500m) during flight testing, beating previous 737 altitudes by 4,000ft and attaining the target height which was planned for type certification. The record height was achieved by the crew of the second 737-700 flight-test aircraft on a test ...
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An-24 crashes en route to Turkey
AROUND 50 people died when a Stavropolskaya Aktsionernaya Avia Antonov An-24RV crashed on 18 March, 42min into a flight from Stavropol, near Chechnya in southern Russia, to Trabzon, northern Turkey. Air-traffic controllers reported a prolonged buzz on the local communications frequency, a signal which pilots can send if ...
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United signs up for warning system
UNITED AIRLINES has placed a $14.6 million order for AlliedSignal Aerospace's enhanced ground-proximity warning system (EGPWS). The US air carrier had previously won US Federal Aviation Administration approval to install the safety device in 12 Airbus A320s for evaluation. AlliedSignal says that the contract covers more than 400 ...
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Eurocontrol solves B-RNAV problem for ageing aircraft
Ageing aircraft not equipped with modern navigation equipment are likely to be allowed to use satellite navigation for basic area navigation (B-RNAV) after the January 1998 deadline for the introduction of B-RNAV in Europe. A programme of work being carried out by Eurocontrol, and now almost complete, appears ...
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Northwest ponders feeder take-over
MESABA AIRLINES says that it is in favour of the possible purchase of fellow Northwest Airlink regional airline Express Airlines I by Northwest Airlines. Minneapolis-based Mesaba was commenting on speculation that Northwest, which owns a one-third stake in Mesaba, is negotiating to acquire the Atlanta, Georgia-based regional air carrier. ...
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Japan calls for Northwest maintenance probe
The US Federal Aviation Administration has been asked by the Japanese ministry of transport to investigate maintenance practices at Northwest Airlines, following a series of incidents reported at capital Tokyo's Narita Airport. The ministry's Japan civil-aviation bureau says that it is increasingly concerned by the number of incidents ...
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'Heavy-weight' MD-90 delivered to Great China
Great China Airlines has taken delivery of its first McDonnell Douglas (MDC) MD-90-30, which is also the first longer-range version certificated at the new optional higher maximum take-off weight (MTOW). The aircraft has strengthened wing structure, landing gear and flap mechanisms, enabling the MTOW to be increased by ...
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UPS passengers
UPS began passenger services on 7 March, using Boeing 727-100QF freighters recently modified by Pemco to allow them to be operated in the passenger/ cargo quick-change role. The aircraft can now be equipped with 113-seat interiors for weekend charter services, increasing utilisation. Passenger services were inaugurated with a flight from ...
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A question of engine quality?
Sir - After months of rigorous testing to obtain certification, and subsequently testing clearance, for extended-range twinjet operations, you report in the article "Compressor damage grounds two of BA's 777 fleet" that the General Electric GE90 has had to be removed from British Airways 777s, having suffered compressor damage following ...
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FLS completes first 727 cargo conversion
FLS Aerospace has completed its first freighter conversion of a Boeing 727, and the aircraft has now entered service with TNT Express Worldwide on its European network. The aircraft, a -200 Adv, was modified at FLS' Stansted, UK, centre, using the Aircraft Engineering & Installation Services (AEI), Miami, supplemental type ...
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777 airframe undergoes longest-ever fatigue test
Boeing's 777 full-scale fatigue-test airframe had undergone 120,000 simulated flights between January 1995 and 13 March this year, representing double the aircraft's 30-year design service objective, and making this the most extensive fatigue test to be carried out by the company. Boeing structural engineers are "very pleased" with ...
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Safety in Colombia
Colombian commercial air transport has a poor safety record by average world standards. This has been spotlighted by the US Federal Aviation Administration's International Air Safety Assessment Programme (IASAP), which gave Colombia's civil-aviation authority (Aeronautica Civil) only a Category 2 "conditional" rating for safety-oversight standards. Keen to earn its IASAP ...
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Single Euro-safetyagency finds favour
Implementation of the third and final part of the European Union's (EU) single-aviation market, or "open-skies" policy, due on 1 April, has brought into focus the need to establish a European-wide safety authority, with many GAMTA members supporting such a move. Now, each member country of the European ...
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Cathay maintains steady course
Cathay Pacific Airways has turned in a steady set of 1996 financial results, despite struggling with a falling Japanese yen and soaring fuel costs, while the airline's net profits also received a hefty boost from the sale of part of its share in sister carrier Dragonair. Overall, the ...
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Sabena is rocked by record losses
Sabena president Paul Reutlinger has revealed the heaviest losses in the Belgian airline's history and admits that its performance remains under review by main shareholder Swissair. The group's total net loss climbed to BFr8.8 billion ($248 million) in 1996, although close to half of the figure came from ...
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Bad Promises
A EUROPEAN UNION guarantee seems to be a bit like Sam Goldwyn's famed verbal contract - not worth the paper it's written on. Certainly, that seems to be the case with the guarantees that the EU gave operators of Chapter 2 aircraft in 1992 that they could continue to operate ...
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Alcatel asks for US SkyBridge approval
Alcatel Espace has applied to the US Federal Communications Commission to launch and operate a 64-satellite, low-Earth orbit (LEO) constellation to provide high-speed, broadband, interactive services to business and private users worldwide, at a data rate of up to 60 million bits/s. The $3.5 billion system, called the ...