All Ops & safety articles – Page 1465
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Joining the bandwagon
Kieran Daly and Jenny Pite/LONDON There is perhaps little doubt that a degree of management fashion-following lies behind some of the trends observed in the running of the air transport industry. The sceptics who blame mere fashion for the widespread move to arm's-length operation of airline maintenance during the 1990s ...
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Crash penalty
Taiwanese flag carrier China Airlines warns that 1994 profits have plummeted because of its Airbus A300B4 crash at Nagoya in Japan in April 1994. Pre-tax profits are expected to fall to around NT$500 million ($19 million), down from NT$3.44 billion in 1993. Provisional figures reportedly indicate a 13% drop in ...
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Living dangerously
Apathy has forced take-off performance monitoring to be shelved. David Learmount/LONDON The US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) says that there were more than 4,000 take-off related accidents and serious incidents involving airliners in the USA between 1983 and 1990, resulting in 1,378 fatalities. ...
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Glimmers show through the gloom
Russia's aviation industry remains in crisis, but could be getting over the worst. Paul Duffy/MOSCOW Kevin O'Toole/LONDON Given the fragile state of its economy, it comes as little surprise that Russia's aviation industry had another tough year in 1994. Traffic continued a steady downward drift, which has already ...
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Stick with the pilot - it's safer
Sir - Why do those bent on eradicating human error in the cockpit by the use of automated systems overlook the fact that these systems are made by just another man - on the ground - and are as prone to suffer human error? At least the man ...
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Western partners lose patience over An-124
Kieran Daly/LONDON WESTERN CARGO companies with interests in the Antonov An-124 Ruslan outsize freighter are expressing growing exasperation with its engines. The combination of the D-18T turbofan's unreliability and future difficulties in coping with noise restrictions has led to a showdown with Ukrainian engine design bureau ...
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Western partners lose patience over An-124
Kieran Daly/LONDON WESTERN CARGO companies with interests in the Antonov An-124 Ruslan outsize freighter are expressing growing exasperation with its engines. The combination of the D-18T turbofan's unreliability and future difficulties in coping with noise restrictions has led to a showdown with Ukrainian engine design ...
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US schools drop R22s...
TWO MAJOR US flight schools have decided to replace their Robinson R22s with Schweizer's new Model 300CB training helicopter, citing as a factor safety concerns with the R22. Schweizer launched the 300CB at Heli-Expo with orders for 23 aircraft, including ten for Concord, California-based Helicopter Adventures. Oakland, California-based ...
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US schools drop R22s
TWO MAJOR US flight schools have decided to replace their Robinson R22s with Schweizer's new Model 300CB training helicopter, citing as a factor safety concerns with the R22. Schweizer launched the 300CB at Heli-Expo with orders for 23 aircraft, including ten for Concord, California-based Helicopter Adventures. Oakland, California-based ...
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Pitot icing suspected in X-31 crash
THE INTERIM REPORT into the crash of a Rockwell/Daimler Benz Aerospace X-31 has identified a malfunction in the pilot-static system as the major contributory factor to the loss of the high angle-of-attack research aircraft (Flight International, 1-7 February). Project accident investigations, are now believed to be centred on ...
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Ariane 5 tests completed
Julian Moxon/PARIS THE LAST OF A SERIES of seven tests of the Ariane 5 cryogenic stage was carried out successfully at Kourou, French Guiana, on 27 January. On the same day there were a further two tests of the Vulcain main engine in France and Germany. ...
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Ariane 5 tests completed
Julian Moxon/PARIS THE LAST OF A SERIES of seven tests of the Ariane 5 cryogenic stage was carried out successfully at Kourou, French Guiana, on 27 January. On the same day there were a further two tests of the Vulcain main engine in France and Germany. ...
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TransAsia ATR 72 was flying 'too low'
TAIWANESE investigators examining the night-time crash of a TransAsia Airways ATR 72 on 30 January are trying to determine why the aircraft was around 1,500ft (430m) below its prescribed altitude. The ATR 72 turboprop was cleared to land and the pilot was about to begin the approach to ...
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TransAsia ATR 72 was flying 'too low'
TAIWANESE investigators examining the nighttime crash, of a TransAsia Airways ATR 72 on 30 January, are trying to determine, why the aircraft was around 1,500ft (430m) below its prescribed altitude. The ATR 72 turboprop was cleared to land and the pilot was about to begin the approach to ...
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Emergency landing mars 777 test success
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES JUBILATION OVER THE "flawless" first flight of a General Electric GE90-powered Boeing 777 on 2 February was overshadowed by an incident on another 777 test aircraft which was forced into an emergency landing at Boeing Field later the same day. Boeing launched an ...
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Emergency landing mars 777 test success
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES JUBILATION OVER THE "flawless" first flight of a General Electric GE90-powered Boeing 777 on 2 February was overshadowed by an incident on another 777 test aircraft which was forced into an emergency landing at Boeing Field later the same day. Boeing launched ...
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Researchers abandon work on take-off monitoring
David Learmount/AMSTERDAM EUROPEAN AND US research on a system to improve airliner take-off safety has ground to a halt, faced with lack of interest from regulators, industry, and operators. Two agencies - NASA Langley in the USA and the National Research Laboratory (NLR) in Amsterdam, Netherlands ...
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Researchers abandon work on take-off monitoring
David Learmount/AMSTERDAM EUROPEAN AND US research on a system to improve airliner take-off safety has ground to a halt, faced with lack of interest from regulators, industry, and operators. Two agencies - NASA Langley in the USA and the National Research Laboratory (NLR) in Amsterdam, ...
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Pilot worries force FAA action over runway aid
Kieran Daly/LONDON A KEY ELEMENT of the USA's airport-capacity enhancement programme is being held up following unexpected difficulties in using it operationally. The precision runway monitor (PRM) has an electronically scanned (E-scan) radar, with a high update-rate, to permit independent approaches to closely spaced parallel runways. ...
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Air Inter springs profit surprise
FRENCH DOMESTIC airline Air Inter unexpectedly recorded a profit during 1994, the first positive result for four years. On a turnover of Fr11.74 billion ($2.24 billion), the airline made a Fr21 million profit, when a loss of around Fr100 million had been predicted. The improved figures were because ...