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NewsEASA unveils aero-medical tool advised after Germanwings suicide crash
Six years after being recommended in the aftermath of the deliberate crash of a Germanwings Airbus A320, an aero-medical repository has been formally unveiled by the European air safety regulator. The repository is intended to assist aero-medical examiners to meet obligations by enhancing the availability of commercial pilots’ medical information. ...
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PICTURES: Ranking the best animal-faced airliners
After ANA took delivery of its first turtle-themed Airbus A380 on 20 March, we rank the top 10 animal-face liveries on commercial airliners.
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Final Air Berlin chief was given mission to 'sell the company'
The final chief executive of German operator Air Berlin says he was brought into the business to oversee the sell-off of the company as it grappled with a long list of woes.
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Pilot mental health care still facing 'normalisation' barriers
Efforts within the air transport sector to overcome stigma attached to mental health problems are progressing but work is still needed to achieve parity of treatment between psychological and physical illness.
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Cologne seeks to offset Eurowings long-haul withdrawal
Cologne airport is bracing for the loss of 750,000 passengers next summer following Eurowings decision to relocate its long-haul services to Dusseldorf, but is hopeful a new connecting product can help traffic to rebound.
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A319 evades ultralight collision during initial climb
German investigators have detailed a serious low-level airprox incident at Stuttgart during which a Germanwings Airbus A319's collision-avoidance system ordered the crew to descend while just 1,200ft above ground.
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InterviewINTERVIEW: Carsten Spohr, chief executive, Lufthansa Group
Carsten Spohr can afford an extra smile or two these days as he looks back on a challenging first three years as chief executive of Lufthansa Group.
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Lufthansa's passenger carriers double operating profit in 2015
Lufthansa Group has identified its "capacity discipline", accompanied by falling oil prices, as a factor in its adjusted EBIT increasing 55% to €1.82 billion ($2.04 billion) in 2015.
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Germanwings crash probe opts against cockpit door rethink
French investigators maintain that the risk of an external attack on the cockpit outweighs the risk of pilot interference, and have steered away from recommending changes in secure cockpit doors.
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News2015 was a watershed year for airline safety
The year 2015 will go down in aviation history as a watershed, when the focus on passenger safety shifted from technical and operational concerns to security issues.
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EASA lays out plan to prevent Germanwings crash recurrence
European safety regulators are to host an aircrew medical fitness workshop by the end of this year, as part of an action plan aimed to prevent a repetition of the Germanwings Airbus crash last March.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: 2015 safety record marred by non-accidents
The last 18 months have changed perceptions of air traveller safety. The good news is that there continue to be very few serious fatal airline accidents, but that has been offset by three disastrous events that were not accidental.
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NewsNo need to revise cockpit door rules after A320 crash: EASA
European safety authorities believe there is no need to amend requirements on secure cockpit doors in the wake of the Germanwings Airbus A320 crash.
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NewsControllers unaware of erratic Germanwings altitude selections
French air traffic controllers were unaware of highly-unusual altitude selections being made on the ill-fated Germanwings Airbus A320 during its prior flight to Barcelona.
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NewsGermanwings crash: Extreme altitude selections recorded on prior flight
Investigators have disclosed that the altitude selector on the ill-fated Germanwings Airbus A320 was adjusted to extreme values several times, in the captain’s absence, during the previous outbound flight to Barcelona.
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NewsBEA plans A320 flight to validate Germanwings CVR data
Investigators will conduct a flight with an Airbus A320 to validate sounds picked up by the cockpit voice recorder of the Germanwings aircraft that crashed in the French Alps on 24 March.
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NewsIATA expresses concerns on Germanwings investigation
IATA director general Tony Tyler has called for aircraft accident investigations to be conducted in a “non-punitive” manner, in the aftermath of a Germanwings Airbus A320 crash which was found to be intentionally caused by the flight’s co-pilot.
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NewsGermanwings co-pilot increased speed during descent
The flight data recorder from the Germanwings Airbus A320 that crashed in the French Alps on 24 March shows that the co-pilot on several occasions increased the speed of the aircraft's descent, according to French accident investigatory agency BEA.
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NewsSuicide research preceded A320 crash: prosecutor
German authorities have disclosed evidence suggesting that the first officer of the ill-fated Germanwings Airbus A320 had researched methods of suicide as well as cockpit security days before the crash.
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OpinionOPINION: Time to stop Germanwings information anarchy
Intense media interest in an accident like the Germanwings crash in the French Alps is understandable – but the way the media and public has been fed with information directly from a grandstanding French judicial prosecutor is not.