All Safety News – Page 1244
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Transatlantic Cabair
UK pilot training group Cabair has contracted a training base in Orlando, Florida, to educate pilots to the newly adopted European Joint Aviation Requirements for flight crew licensing syllabus. Orlando Flight Training, which uses Piper Warriors, will be available to any trainee pilot from the UK. Source: Flight International
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Airbus unveils details of A330 derivative
Julian Moxon/PARIS Airbus Industrie has revealed details of the A330-100 derivative it is offering airlines to replace the A310 and A300-600 medium-range airliners. Demand for a new aircraft in the 165-250-seat range is growing, and Airbus and Boeing are preparing solutions based around the A330-200 and 777 (Flight ...
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AMR eyes Aerolineas Argentinas shares in ownership argument
American Airlines parent AMR is bidding for Spanish holding company SEPI's majority stake in Aerolineas Argentinas as it strives to diffuse a row over ownership of the carrier. A source at American says AMR is heading a consortium of investors negotiating with SEPI and its sleeping partners, Merrill Lynch ...
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Disaster ditching
An Avisto Shorts 360-300 ditched in the sea on approach to Marsa el Brega, northern Libya, on 13 January. Loss of power in both engines had been reported by the captain. As Flight International went to press, there were 19 survivors among the 41 people on board. The aircraft was ...
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Russia considers export rule change
Russian customs authorities are looking to improve regulations concerning the temporary export of aircraft, to help alleviate problems suffered during offshore operations of Russian freighters. The effort to revise the regulations follows meetings between the authorities and the Russian chapter of the International Air Cargo Association. The Russian members ...
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ATC upgrade deal clears road to Scotland for Lockheed Martin
David Learmount/LONDON Lockheed Martin Air Traffic Management has won a significant UK National Air Traffic Services (NATS) contract. The deal virtually confirms that it will win the work to build and equip the new Scottish air traffic control centre. The $7 million contract provides a much-needed interim equipment ...
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Workshop
Gemini Air Cargo has contracted Boeing Wichita and Israel Aircraft Industries to undertake freighter conversions of two leased ex-Varig McDonnell Douglas MD-11s. London Heathrow-based British Airways franchise operator British Mediterranean Airways has awarded Monarch Aircraft Engineering a four-year base maintenance contract for its three Airbus A320s. Overhaul specialist Triumph Air ...
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Traffic on the up
Preliminary International Civil Aviation Association results show traffic increased by 5% last year over 1998, and by 6% on international services, measured in tonne-kilometres. A 1998 slowdown saw traffic rise by 1%, with 1999's growth suggesting a move back towards the previous six years' 7% average. Source: Flight International
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Young will head Mars inquiry
Former Lockheed Martin executive Thomas Young has been appointed by NASA to lead the Mars Program Independent Assessment team. It will review the failures of the Mars Climate Orbiter (MCO), Mars Polar Lander (MPL) and the space agency's approach to robotic exploration. The MCO was lost on 23 September and ...
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Clear air ahead for turbulence detector
Honeywell aims to develop a system within three years that will be able to detect clear air turbulence (CAT), for which there are no predictive warning systems available. The company plans to certificate a combined microwave and infrared radar to detect all types of turbulence, including CAT. It has ...
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Urgent GE90 removal starts on worldwide 777-200 fleet
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES Paul Lewis/WASHINGTON DC General Electric has begun removing the first of 90 GE90 engines from the worldwide Boeing 777-200 fleet after turbine blade separations caused two in-flight shutdowns and one turnback. The problems, all of which afflicted 777-200ERs operated by Saudi Arabian Airlines, were caused by ...
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Airports
The Netherlands Government has decided that the construction of an international airport on an offshore island to serve Amsterdam is not feasible. It will instead allow Schiphol Airport to be expanded. Aircraft movements will increase from 420,000 to 600,000 in 10 years, while a sixth runway will be constructed by ...
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Aerospace beats the Y2K bug
Airline, air traffic control and airport reports from around the globe show that the millennium bug has not caused any computer glitches. The exceptions have been with the control of some ageing satellites (see P17). International Air Transport Association (IATA) director general Pierre Jeanniot says: "No Y2K-related incidents were ...
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TWA looks at stretched 757s to replace ageing 767 fleet
Guy Norris/LONG BEACH TWA is "in discussion" over the possible acquisition of Boeing 757-300s as part of a fleetwide modernisation plan aimed at settling the composition of its narrowbodies for the next 10 years. The airline is considering the 240-seat twinjet as a replacement for its ageing 767-200 ...
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Two Cubana crashes add to sad year-end toll
David Learmount/LONDON A series of airline accidents has cast a shadow over the year-end holiday period, with Korean Air suffering its third hull loss in 1999 and Cubana having two fatal crashes within five days. The main accidents in the last days of 1999 include: 21 ...
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Instrument failure suspected in crash
David Learmount/LONDON A faulty attitude director indicator (ADI) on the captain's side appears to have been a major factor in the Korean Air (KAL) Boeing 747-200 freighter crash on 22 December near London Stansted Airport, UK, according to details in a UK Air Accident Investigation Branch (AAIB) interim bulletin. ...
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Unhappy month
December 1999 was an unhappy month for airline safety in a year which has been better than most. In the last four weeks of 1999 there were eight fatal accidents involving airlines as diverse as small regional operators flying twin turboprops to majors flying widebodies. With Korean Air's Boeing ...
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Late rash mars safer than average year
Despite the rash of serious airline accidents in December which made 1999 appear a bad year for safety, initial figures indicate that last year was safer than average for the 1990s. The number of crew and passenger deaths in all categories of airliner worldwide was 730, compared with a decade ...
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777-100X revived to counter A330 at Singapore Airlines
Paul Lewis/WASHINGTON DC Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES Boeing is looking at reviving the shelved 777-100X shrink derivative as a counter to Airbus Industrie's A330-200 and its proposed -100 variant ahead of an expected Singapore Airlines (SIA) request for proposals (RFP) for an A310 replacement. SIA is expected to release ...
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BA studies CityFlyer transfer in Gatwick route shake-up
Chris Jasper/LONDON Andrew Doyle/MUNICH British Airways is considering a radical restructuring of its London Gatwick-based operations that would see all routes of less than 800km (430nm) - or around 35% of services - transferred to its CityFlyer subsidiary. The move, among several under consideration, aims to exploit the lower ...