All Safety News – Page 1362
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Airtours denies plans for A330 but closes on fleet decision
Airtours International is close to deciding on an order for new long-haul aircraft from Airbus or Boeing, but the airline denies that it has any plans to introduce Airbus A330s in 1998. According to Mike Lee, managing director of the Manchester, UK-based charter airline, decisions will be made ...
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US overflying charges spark protests
US Government plans to raise $100 million annually from foreign carriers by charging for use of Federal Aviation Administration-controlled oceanic airspace have raised a storm of protest from 20 governments, and most of the 170 carriers which the International Air Transport Association says would be affected. Airlines fear ...
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Fuel-tank safety checks initiated
About 2,000 of 6,000 aircraft operated by 68 airlines worldwide will be inspected over the next three years for the type of fuel-system defects suspected of causing the crash of a Trans World Airlines Boeing 747-100 in July 1996. The Aircraft Fuel Systems Safety Programme will involve checks ...
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Jamaica's Cat 1 rating brings Delta deal nearer
Air Jamaica is moving ahead with plans for a co-operation agreement with Delta Air Lines after the USA upgraded Jamaica's safety-oversight rating to Category 1. The deal with Delta, announced in July, had been on hold until the US Federal Aviation Administration's international aviation-safety assessment team was satisfied ...
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IATA fights airport emission rules
The International Air Transport Association (IATA) has issued a legal challenge to the new aircraft-emissions surcharges at Switzerland's Zürich Airport. The action is seen as a key test case for the legality of similar penalties proposed elsewhere in Europe. Zürich became one of the first major airports to ...
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Airbus will increase weight and performance of A340-500/600
Airbus Industrie has completed a review of the A340-500/600's baseline specification, resulting in an increase in design weight and boosting range by some 370km (200nm) to meet requirements from potential customers, such as Singapore Airlines. Alan Pardoe, A330/A340 product manager, says that the review was completed in mid-September, ...
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Lufthansa Cargo evaluates 747-400F
Lufthansa Cargo Airlines will more than double the number of widebody freighters in its fleet within the next eight years. The German carrier is evaluating the Boeing 747-400 Freighter to replace its 747-200Fs. Karl Ulrich Garnadt, network vice-president of the wholly owned cargo arm of Lufthansa Group, says ...
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VisionAire selects SimCom to provide training on Vantage
VisionAire has selected SimCom International to provide pilot and maintenance training for the Vantage single-turbofan business jet. St Louis, Missouri-based VisionAire will provide training for one pilot and one maintenance technician within the Vantage's $1.75 million purchase price, and plans to require pilots to gain a type rating ...
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Ministers turn down EC open-skies request
Europe's transport ministers have turned down a request from the European Commission (EC) to broaden the remit of its open-skies talks with the USA to include negotiations on traffic rights. EC transport commissioner Neil Kinnock hopes to raise the issue again at the next meeting, in December. Kinnock ...
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Netherlands unbends on Schiphol noise
The Netherlands Government has reached a last-minute compromise which will allow Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport to breach its strict noise regime, which was threatening to cause chaos in operations in the final three months of the year. The airport says that it will still have to rein in its growth in ...
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Siemens tests new parking system
Siemens is testing a new precision-parking system at Munich Airport, Germany, which recognises an aircraft approaching a stand and then gives the pilot parking guidance. Testing of the video-based Siemens Docking Guidance System (SIDOGS) should be completed by the end of the year, says the German company, which ...
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China tackles issue of ATC integration
The Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) is expected to issue a request for proposals (RFP) by the end of the year for the first of three planned area-control centres (ACCs) to provide integrated coverage of the eastern half of the country. Under a national plan drawn up ...
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team GCAS
Teledyne Controls and Dassault Electronique have signed an agreement to jointly market and support the French company's recently developed Ground Collision Avoidance System (GCAS). Dassault will manufacture the GCAS and support the product throughout territories of the world not covered by the agreement with Teledyne. Source: ...
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EU Approves Takeover
The European Commission has approved the proposed take-over of Air UK by KLM, saying that the acquisition would have hardly any influence on competition within Europe. KLM has owned 45% of Air UK shares since 1988 and is now cleared to acquire the rest. Source: Flight ...
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'Outsiders' cannot asses problems
Sir - I was shocked to read the letter from Mr Lunan (Flight International, 24-30 September, P61), which was full of confusing "buzz words". I do not agree with the contentious premise that an agency, outside the airline industry, can diagnose that industry's employment problems - or define ...
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Approval for Next Generation 737 slips back to late October
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES Certiffication of Boeing's Next Generation 737 has been delayed until later this month by late structural and control-system modifications, spare-parts shortages and continued evaluations by the European Joint Aviation Authorities. The company had hoped that the first member of the new family, the ...
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Boeing studies 777-200X 'sleeper' options
Guy Norris/SEATTLE Boeing has begun talks with potential 777-200X customers over lower-lobe options for its ultra-long-range derivative of the twinjet, with sleeping space for up to 40 passengers and crew. Boeing is now seriously examining the long-discussed possibility of passenger sleeping accommodation, needed mainly because of ...
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European countries set up group to promote air-safety standards
The UK Civil Aviation authority, France's Bureau Veritas and Germany's Air Eurosafe have signed an agreement creating a new group to promote aviation safety worldwide. The three organisations have agreed to pool their expertise and resources to support the air-safety work being carried out by the International Civil ...
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Low clearance is key to Garuda crash
Paul Lewis/Singapore David Learmount/London AN UNUSUALLY low altitude-clearance by Medan airport air-traffic control (ATC) appears to have played a crucial part in the Garuda Indonesian Airlines Airbus A300B4 fatal accident in Sumatra, Indonesia. The crash on 26 September, in poor visibility among the foothills of a mountain range ...
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Germany urges rail transfer of short-haul traffic
Germany's parliamentary state secretary for transport, Norbert Lammert, has called for a transfer of short-haul air traffic on to the rail network, encouraging airports to cultivate a role linking various transport modes. Speaking at the recent opening of the Inter Airport '97 show at Frankfurt/Rhein-Main Airport, Lammert said: ...