All Safety News – Page 1513
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Air Algerie crash in UK kills five
AN AIR ALGERIE Boeing 737-200 freighter on approach to Coventry Airport in the UK on 21 December, 1994, crashed in woodland nearly 3km (1.6nm) short of runway 23, killing all five people on board. Shortly before impact with the ground at 09.50, the aircraft hit an electricity-cable pylon and clipped ...
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Eurocontrol agrees on central European unit
Julian Moxon/PARIS EUROCONTROL has agreed on the basic details for the creation of a common centre for the control of upper airspace in Austria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovenia and northern Italy. Legal, operational and financial principles for the Central European Air Traffic Services ...
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Pena calls for safety summit
US TRANSPORTATION Secretary Federico Pena is promising an industry/Government safety summit and an airline-industry safety audit. The yet-unscheduled meeting will be chaired by Federal Aviation Administrator David Hinson and will include senior airline management, chief pilots, aircraft manufacturers and FAA/DoT officials. Source: Flight International
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Tough medicine
The FAA's new regulations for commuter airlines will hit regional carriers hard. Graham Warwick/ATLANTA US regional carriers could end up paying dearly for the loss of 83 lives in the two recent American Eagle crashes, which prompted the US Federal Aviation Administration to undertake to ...
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Ariane launches to resume launches in February
ARIANE LAUNCHES are to be resumed in mid-February. Arianespace made the announcement following the release of the findings by the official inquiry into the loss of the Ariane V70 and its PanAmSat 3 payload on 1 December 1994 (Flight International, 14-20 December, 1994). The inquiry found that the ...
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IPA: putting the record straight
Sir - It would be inappropriate for me to comment on the Dan-Air versus British Airways litigation, as we at the Independent Pilots Association (IPA), are not directly involved, but I would like to correct the letter from Captains Archer and Marshall of the British Airline Pilots Association (BALPA), (Flight ...
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De-icing vehicle developed
Graham Warwick/ATLANTA ELBERTA INDUSTRIES has completed development of a mobile de-icing vehicle designed to be operated at an airport gate, at the end of a runway or remotely. The Elberta, Alabama based company has designed the Expeditor to meet new US Federal Aviation Administration rules, which ...
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US airlines warn on losses
THE US AIRLINE industry could be on course to show its fifth consecutive year of losses in 1994, say early estimates from the Air Transport Association (ATA). The warning confounds Wall Street predictions that the major airlines would end the year with net profits of $1 billion. ...
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Boeing starts work on UPS freight 767
BOEING WAS DUE to begin building the first 767 freighter on 6 January at its Everett assembly site, with work scheduled to start on the front spar of the wing. The cargo floor will also be "loaded" on to production jigs one week later. The aircraft will be ...
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Turkey Crash
A THY-Turkish Airlines Boeing 737-400 (TC-JES) crashed into a hill 4km (2nm) from Van airport, eastern Turkey, despite a warning from air traffic control not to attempt a third approach in a snowstorm. The crash killed 53 of the 69 passengers and seven crew. Source: Flight International
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Catching crabs: can you solve mystery?
Sir - In early December 1994, a Boeing 737-400 returned to its Istanbul base after completion of a charter service to Stockholm Arlanda. The flight was considered uneventful by the crew, who were surprised, therefore, by the news that the aircraft's leading edge, at a point just outboard ...
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Lumps appeared in the gravy
Sir - The article "Gravy training" (Flight International, 14-20 December, 1994, P37) carried some inaccurate information. Taipei, Taiwan-based Taiwan stock-market-listed China Airlines (CAL) has been trying to distance itself from the "flag-carrier" image, which damaged it in almost every air-services agreement talk with countries with no diplomatic ties ...
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Governments
A change in the VAT status of the UK Civil Aviation Authority should work through as a drop in air traffic control charges, according to accountants Ernst & Young. The Eurocontrol enlarged committee for route charges has frozen work on proposed changes to route charges for up to ...
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Canada: it's in the timing
The two Canadian majors are prepared to support the concept of US-Canada open skies, but are split on the phase-in period and remain doubtful whether their US alliances will help put them on an equal competitive footing with the larger US carriers. US and Canadian negotiators appear set ...
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Airlines, take your partners - again
Many airlines are re-evaluating policy on strategic alliances. They'd better get it right. Alliance fever is hotting up again. Airlines that don't have strategic partners are rushing to find them. Some existing partnerships are collapsing or looking shaky. And even airlines which are happily married are continuing to court ...
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New year, new partners
The alliance structure of Europe's carriers is set for a dramatic reshuffle in 1995. Lufthansa appears to have succeeded in disrupting the European Quality Alliance of Swissair, Austrian and SAS. As SAS prepares to leave the EQA, the effects are likely to spread throughout the European airline industry. ...
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Coded warnings
Aeropolitics The industry should be sending clear signals to the US government to leave codesharing alone. Michael F Goldman argues the case for its deregulation. Codesharing policy is taking centre stage again. In early December both the US Department of Transport ation's outside consultants and the General Accounting Office ...
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Slipping profits
The world's airports have begun to feel the pinch at a time when many airlines finally are seeing an economic upswing. In 1993 revenues for the 45 airport authorities reporting increased by only 2.7 per cent on 1992, and the group recorded a 5.8 per cent fall in net ...
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New order plans change
US transportation officials see 1995 as highly significant for aviation. The air traffic control system may be privatised after all, and taxes, airport funding, and reform of the Federal Aviation Admin istration are all issues likely to be in play, with the new Republican majority in Congress trying to dictate ...