All Systems & Interiors news – Page 548
-
NewsEarlier incidents underline depressurisation hazards
Although the sequence of events in the cockpit of the crashed Helios Airways Boeing 737 remains a mystery, earlier incidents have shown the crucial importance of reacting promptly to airliner depressurisations. In both the incidents below the captain lost consciousness, leaving only the first officer flying the aircraft. And ...
-
NewsNo survivors in West Caribbean MD-82 crash
Colombian civil aviation administration Aerocivil has confirmed that there are no survivors from the West Caribbean Airways-operated Boeing MD-82 aircraft which crashed in Venezuela early today.
-
News
Fake Helios pictures identified
Hoax photographs purporting to be pictures taken from the cockpit a Lockheed Martin F-16 as it intercepted the Helios Airways Boeing 737-300 that crashed near Athens on 14 August have been circulated on the internet.
-
News
UK Home Office to consult industry on immigration
Government kicks off consultation process that could make it easier for overseas workers to obtain highly skilled engineering jobs in areas with shortages
-
NewsBoeing to test ‘smart’ chevrons
Noise-reducing technology on engine nacelle put through paces as part of collaborative research project
-
News
EASA approves data for P-RNAV
Clearance allows development of common precision navigation procedures in European terminal airspace
-
NewsA380 is set ‘survivability’ test goal
Regulators impose requirements aimed at ensuring double-deck giant’s crashworthiness matches existing airliners
-
-
NewsHelios 737 passenger text message a hoax
Problems with the pressurisation system appear almost certainly to be behind the fatal loss yesterday of a Helios Airways Boeing 737-300 in Greece, but the possible sequence of events remains a puzzle.
-
News
SpaceShipTwo mothership based on Globalflyer
Mojave-based Scaled Composites' SpaceShipTwo's (SS2) carrier aircraft, White Knight 2, will have the wingspan of a Boeing 737 and use composite structure technology developed for the Virgin Atlantic Globalflyer.
-
News
BA Heathrow schedule almost back to normal
British Airways (BA) expects to operate its full short-haul schedule and the majority of its long-haul flights today as operations return to normal after the recent unofficial walkout by some ground staff.
-
News
BA extends suspension of all Heathrow flights
British Airways (BA) has extended the cancellation of all its London Heathrow flights until at least 18:00 today (12 August) as a result of unexpected industrial action.