All Safety News – Page 659
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NewsANZ says biofuel test flight a success
Air New Zealand (ANZ) is reporting a successful first test flight of a Boeing 747-400 powered in part by the biofuel jatropha. The flight was conducted...
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SIA outlines initial plans for A330s
Singapore Airlines (SIA) has outlined initial plans for its new fleet of Airbus A330-300s, which it starts taking delivery of next month to replace older...
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NTSB: go! pilot napped regularly in Mesa cockpits
A Mesa Airlines CRJ200 pilot with undiagnosed severe sleep apnea told NTSB investigators that he had intentionally "napped in the cockpit" about once per...
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David Cush: Evolving Virgin America from embattled start-up to niche carrier
Virgin America CEO David Cush arrived at the carrier roughly a year ago ahead of a period of wildly spiking fuel prices and at the beginning of an equally astounding economic recession
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NewsPICTURE: Sukhoi flies second Superjet for first time
Sukhoi has carried out the first flight of its second Superjet 100 test aircraft, days after a new phase of airborne trials of its PowerJet SaM146 engines...
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NewsPost-V1 abort after bird-strike destroyed Kalitta 747F
Belgian investigators believe a bird-strike on a Kalitta Air Boeing 747-200 freighter at Brussels Airport triggered the crew to abort take-off at a late stage, causing the jet to overrun....
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Lockheed Martin completes assembly on six F-35s, first optimized CTOL
Lockheed Martin has rolled out the last of six developmental F-35s to join the ground and flight test fleet by end-year.
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EASA issues emergency AD for certain CFM56-5B engines
Operators flying a small number of CFM56-5B turbofan engines will be required to replace one of the aircraft's two powerplants if both are shown to have...
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NewsContinental 737 crash: Pilot called for rejected take-off
Cockpit voice-recorder evidence shows one of the pilots of the Continental Airlines Boeing 737-500 involved in the runway excursion accident at Denver called...
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NTSB: Air Wisconsin Philadelphia gear-up landing followed maintenance
A preliminary report by the US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) reveals that an Air Wisconsin CRJ200 that landed with its left main gear retracted...
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Forecast: Consolidation - Obstacle Course
Financial strains and collapses fuelled a flurry of consolidation activity in the airline sector in 2008, but are the regulatory hurdles still one jump too far for real consolidation to take place in the near term?
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Air cargo faces bleak prospects
Things are not looking good for the air cargo industry, with IATA predicting a 5% fall in freight traffic in 2009. But there is hope among some cargo executives that demand could start to stabilise in the second or third quarter of the year
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Shanghai pact boosts Dallas Fort Worth service hopes
Dallas/Fort Worth Airport, host of the Airline Business Network USA event in 2009, has been working with Shanghai Airport Authority to try and forge nonstop...
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NewsContinental 737 badly damaged, 38 injured in Denver take-off accident
Nearly 40 people on board a Continental Airlines Boeing 737-500 have been injured after the aircraft left the runway at Denver and caught fire yesterday...
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WORLD EXCLUSIVE VIDEO: SpaceShipTwo's mothership maiden flight
Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo mothership WhiteKnightTwo made its historic 59min maiden flight at about 08:16 local time on 21 December from Mojave air and...
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Airlines face bumpy ride in 2009
There's no point dressing it up, the coming year is going to be extremely tough for airlines in all regions. As the global recession takes hold, airlines will face falling demand and the toughest revenue environment in half a century