All Safety News – Page 873
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NewsPictures: Varig Brazilian World Cup player transport MD-11 joins growing football-liveried fleet
Brazilian national carrier Varig has been parading the aircraft it used to transport its national football team to Switzerland last month around its long haul network ahead of the global soccer championship this week.
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NewsPotter's reasons to be cheerful
Frontier Airlines' front man Jeff Potter is still smiling, despite stiff competition from low-cost carrier Southwest
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NewsPictures: GE investigates cause of American Airlines Boeing 767-200 uncontained CF6-80A engine failure that led to aircraft fire
General Electric is investigating the cause of an apparent uncontained engine failure which caused extensive damage to an American Airlines Boeing 767-200 at Los Angeles on Friday.
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Medevac Learjet 35A in 2004 fatal accident was 'cleared to fly into mountain' says US aviation safety agency preliminary report
A Bombardier Learjet 35A air ambulance took off at night under visual flight rules (VFR) and crashed into a mountain after an air traffic controller gave the crew a heading towards high terrain, according to a US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) preliminary report on the 2004 accident. All five ...
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NewsUS Airways indifferent to Airbus’s A350 dilemma, even if 20-aircraft order scrapped
Airframer’s internal debate will not affect fleet replacement plans, says carrier
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Boeing joins effort to cut fuel consumption at Alaska Airlines by looking at weight reduction, routeing and fuel-efficiency
Collaborative project to look at purchasing policy, weight reduction and routeing issues
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Space Adventures heads out on launcher acquisition trail
Space tourist firm to purchase small US concern able to develop launch technology
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Functional airspace block to replace failed CEATS for air traffic management over Austria, Bosnia, Hungary and Slovakia
Consolidation depends on clearing cost-benefit hurdle, says Eurocontrol’s Aguado
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Know your limits
Low-cost carriers work because they use their resources to their limits. To do that safely they have to be sure of what those limits are