All Safety News – Page 624
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AirAsia X order for Airbus A350s imminent
AirAsia X, the Malaysia-based long-haul low-cost airline, is likely to place an order for the Airbus A350 shortly as part of its expansion plans. The...
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Southwest pilots nix tentative deal
Pilots at Southwest Airlines have rejected the tentative agreement their union inked with management in March of this year.
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Aviacsa seeks to quickly resume operations following grounding
Mexican authorities have temporarily grounded Aviacsa and the carrier's fleet of Boeing 737s over alleged safety violations.
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NewsBoeing promotes loans to biofuel producers
Boeing has been looking at what the US government could do to stabilise pricing for renewable jet fuel, and standby loans are one strategy the manufacturer...
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How the autopilot/flight director TCAS works
Airbus has radically modified the interface that pilots use to react to resolution advisories from the aircraft's on-board traffic alert and collision avoidance...
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Pilot error blamed for fatal One-Two-Go crash in Phuket
Pilot error was the main cause of the fatal crash of a One-Two-Go passenger aircraft in Phuket in 2007, Thailand's Department of Civil Aviation (DCA) has...
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Airbus reveals A380-linked pilot systems secrets
Until now, Airbus has been keeping secret two radical new safety-related avionics solutions that have emerged during its A380 development programme
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Pilot error blamed for fatal One-Two-Go crash in Phuket
Pilot error was the main cause of the fatal crash of a One-Two-Go passenger aircraft in Phuket in 2007, Thailand's Department of Civil Aviation (DCA) has...
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NTSB investigates US Airways CRJ200 near-miss
The US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) is investigating a near-miss between a PSA Airlines Bombardier CRJ200 and a Pilatus PC-12 single-engine...
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ICAO continues work towards establishing emissions targets
While Europe presses ahead with implementing aviation's inclusion in its emissions trading scheme, the International Civil Aviation Organisation group tackling...
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Carriers prepare for first European emissions deadline
US airlines that will be subject to the European Union's emissions trading scheme from 2012 are preparing for the first ETS deadline on 31 August. These...
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NewsVIDEO: Flight’s David Learmount talks about missing Air France Airbus A330-200 bound from Rio to Paris
Air France has confirmed that Flight AF447 had been en route from Rio de Janeiro to Paris Charles de Gaulle with 228 occupants when it disappeared.
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Business aviation in brief
ExecuJet South Africa has launched business aircraft membership programme...
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Weather suspected in Air France A330 loss
Weather conditions have emerged as a leading suspect in the assumed loss of an Air France Airbus A330-200 that disappeared off the coast of Brazil last night
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TriaGnoSys dramatically reduces cost of satellite calls
Germany's TriaGnoSys has launched ultra-efficient satellite communications compression software called VoCem, which can be used for all forms of remote communications...
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NewsMissing Rio-Paris flight has 228 on board: Air France
Air France has confirmed that its flight AF447 from Rio de Janeiro is the one which has apparently disappeared while en route to Paris. The French...
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BREAKING: Air France transatlantic flight reported missing out of Brazil
Unconfirmed reports are indicating that an aircraft, possibly operating an Air France flight, has disappeared while travelling between Brazil and France.
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SimCom installs TBM 850 flight trainer in Orlando
Simulator training provider SimCom has installed a Daher Socata TBM 850 flight...