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fLIGHT International, 6 September 1980 943 Indian Navy drops Sea Harrier option AN OPTION on eight additional British Aerospace FRS.51 Sea Harriers has not been taken up by the Indian Navy. According to the Indian Finan cial Express, the option should have been converted to a firm order by May 23 this year. The Navy has bought six Sea Harriers and two trainers for delivery between 1981 and 1983 to replace Sea- Hawks on the aircraft carrier Vikrant. The Sea Hawks have been retired to training duties, says the report, and the Sea Harriers ordered will equip only half a squadron. A plan to send pilots to Britain for training has been shelved. According to the report, when the present Government came to power the Air Force was asked to assess the Navy's air-support require ments. Predictably, the Express says, the Air Force reported that the Navy did not need an independent air-strike capability since the Air Force could provide air cover. Senior naval officers, the report says, point out that the dispute is an old one. Business & Light Aviation Show to be held annually FOLLOWING the successful show held at Grenoble in June, Flight and its French contemporary Aviation International are to continue their Egyptair DC-10 purchase abandoned THE Egyptian Government has finally blocked an order for four McDonnell Douglas DC-10-30s from national flag- carrier Egyptair. Deliveries would have started next year and McDonnell Douglas had arranged a loan deal to support the purchase. Egypt's Govern ment refuses to sanction the order on the grounds that Egyptair is losing money and cannot afford to pay inter est on the loans. There is a remote possibility that the first two aircraft, which are already on the Long Beach produc tion line, may be leased to Egyptair for two years. The decision comes after more than a year of negotiations —the order was originally scheduled for confirmation twelve months ago— but after the Chicago DC-10 crash Lockheed and Boeing made intensive efforts to persuade Egyptair to buy either the TriStar or 747. In the event, it looks as if the carrier will have to retain its Boeing 707s for long-haul operations into the foreseeable future. joint sponsorship of the event, which in future will be held each year. The venue will alternate between Grenoble and the original biennial site at Cran- field in Bedfordshire. As previously announced in Flight, the Eighth Busi ness & Light Aviation Show takes place at Cranfield on September 3-5, 1981. For information contact: David Holmes at Flight (London 261 8364) or Jacques Marmain at Aviation Inter national (Paris 387 3205). Airline accidents • A Viscount operated by Indonesian carrier Bouraq crashed into marsh land some 16 miles north-east of Jakarta on August 26, killing the 25 passengers and six crew. The aircraft was en route from Banjarmasin to Jakarta and witnesses are reported to have said that the tail separated and the Viscount subsequently entered a steep dive. Bouraq is not recorded as owning any Viscounts and the aircraft was possibly a Series 800 leased from Merpati Nusantara. • NAMC YS-11 LV-JLJ, owned by Lineas Aereas Privadas Argentinas, reportedly sustained undercarriage damage during touch-and-go training exercises at Ezeiza Airport on August 13. No injuries are reported. • Following the TriStar cabin fire which killed 301 people at Riyadh (Flight, August 30, page 730), Saudia is tightening security arrangements to prevent passengers taking pro hibited inflammable items aboard air craft. Camping-stove gas bottles found in the burnt-out fuselage have been implicated as possible causes. In this photograph taken especially for Flight, a USAF 347th Tactical Fighter Wing F-4E formates with an Egyptian Air Force F-4 during the USAF's "Proud Phantom" detachment to Cairo West Air Base I 6036 ••• i 1 ^^C^v M*^^
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