All Safety News – Page 1501
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Asia-Pacific firms cautioned on markets
AIRBUS HAS WARNED that emerging Asia-Pacific aerospace industries may be attacking the wrong market with their emphasis on regional jets. The warning is based on the latest Airbus long-range forecast, which shows that airlines in Asia-Pacific will account for only 10% of airliner deliveries in the 100-seat class. ...
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Bilateral Impasse
As US air-services negotiators, return from an apparently promising meeting with their British counterparts, and the European Commission (EC) suddenly discovers that it doesn't like what the US negotiators have agreed with the rest of Europe, a new question arises. Who really talks for Europe, and who really talks for ...
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Angry Canada stops payments to Hughes
THE CANADIAN Government is refusing to make payments to Hughes Aircraft in a major dispute over the modernisation of the nation's air-traffic-control system. Deputy minister of transport David Wightman says that the C$659 million ($464 million) programme is "up to two years" behind schedule, prompting the suspension of ...
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ICAO Lists Accidents
Scheduled airlines suffered 28 accidents involving passenger fatalities during 1994, compared with 34 in 1993, says the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO). In 1994, the number of deaths was 941, an increase of five fatalities on the 1993 total. Non-scheduled operations suffered 54 accidents, accounting for 251 fatalities, reports ICAO, ...
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Twin Otter Simulator
ATC Flight Simulator of Los Angeles, California has introduced a low-cost de Havilland Twin Otter flight-simulator. The standard device costs under $300,000, with motion and visual systems available as options. Source: Flight International
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Ozone watcher
The European Space Agency's latest satellite will monitor the Earth's ozone layer. Tim Furniss/ LONDON Europe's most complex environmental-monitoring satellite yet is scheduled for an Ariane 4 launch in April. The ERS 2 is the second of the European Space Agency's (ESA) remote-sensing satellites and, in ...
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Pacific bus stops
Hawaiian operators plan to tap a predicted growth in South Seas tourism. Guy Norris/HONOLULU Hawaiian guitar music wafts across the palm-fringed beach near Waikiki on a balmy afternoon. High overhead, locally based airliners look like partners in paradise as they shuttle to neighbouring islands. ...
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FAA endorses capsule for child survival
HOOVER INDUSTRIES has won US Federal Aviation Administration approval for its infant and small-child life preserver. The product is thought to be the only one to meet FAA Technical Standing Order C13f requirements. The FAA requires that the upper torso be prevented from coming into contact with water. ...
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Cathay issues cost warning despite rise profit rise
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE CATHAY PACIFIC Airways has issued further warnings over falling yields and rising costs, despite reporting a 4% increase in net profits for 1994. Profits ended the year broadly in line with analyst expectations at HK$2.4 billion ($310 million), but Cathay chairman Peter Sutch ...
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Human error blamed in An-70 crash
THE UKRAINIAN-LED commission investigating the crash on 10 February of the Antonov An-70 four-prop-fan prototype has ruled that the main cause of the accident was "human error", despite continuing allegations of technical problems with the aircraft. The commission says that the mid-air collision of the An-70 with ...
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European ministers discuss open skies policy
Julian Moxon/PARIS European transport ministers have reached a tentative agreement to develop a common policy on open skies following the spate of recent agreements between individual countries and the USA. Within a 15-day period, six European Union countries (Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Luxembourg and Sweden) ...
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Bombardier prepares for Dash 8-400 launch
Lane Wallace/LOS ANGELES BOMBARDIER'S LAUNCH of the de Havilland Dash 8-400 now seems certain as it begins negotiations with potential risk-sharing partners on the 70-seat, high-speed, regional turboprop. Initial letters of intent to purchase the model have been signed and some early delivery positions have ...
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UK investigators query certification of A340
Kieran Daly/LONDON UK ACCIDENT investigators are asking the European Joint Aviation Authorities whether it was aware of "shortcomings" in the Airbus A340's fuel and flight-management systems when the type was certificated. The move follows its investigation of an incident in which an A340 crew suffered ...
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DC-10 record is unblemished
Sir - A Papadakis (Flight International, Letters, 1-7 March, P35) asks why the US Federal Aviation Administration was not as stringent with the McDonnell Douglas DC-10 as he believes it was with the ATR turboprop. The answer is twofold. Firstly, the record of the DC-10 never called for ...
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ERS 1 success story
When the ERS project began, it was seen as providing a remote-sensing satellite to provide systematic, repetitive, global coverage of the ocean, coastal zones and ice caps. It soon took on an "environmental" mantle. The ERS 1 has exceeded its planned operational life by 50% and has acquired, more than ...
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TCAS In France
BFGoodrich Aerospace Avionics Systems has received French approval for its TCAS 791 traffic-alert and collision-avoidance system (TCAS 1) - the first TCAS approval in France, it says. Source: Flight International
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BMA 737: were precautions needed?
Sir - I refer to the report "Oil loss forces down BMA 737" (Flight International, 8-14 March, P16). When I was an apprentice, my airline did not permit scheduled maintenance on more than one engine per aircraft input, even on three-engine types. At another airline, I was not ...
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Taxi Rule Change
The US Federal Aviation Administration has banned the night time practice of allowing aircraft to taxi on to an active runway and hold until cleared for take-off. The "taxi into position and hold" instruction used to speed airport traffic-flows is being prohibited at night following several near misses. ...
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Lifting the gloom
The mood at GAMTA's annual conference in London was very different to that in 1994. Kieran Daly/LONDON The second half of the 1990s will test Europe's general aviation (GA) operators beyond precedent, but it may also reward them, as never before. What is beyond doubt is that ...