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| 10.01.2007 |
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Commercial: Into the Wild Blue: JetBlue Charts New Territory with Apprentice Mechanic Program
From their first flight in February of 2000, JetBlue Airways has been changing the way that airlines are managed and operated. Headquartered in Forest Hills, N.Y., "JetBlue is making an investment now, with an apprentice technician program, for the...
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| 10.01.2006 |
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Untitled
UNCONTAINED ENGINE FAILURES An airworthiness directive (AD) calling for removal, inspection and reworking of high pressure turbine (HPT) disks beginning at 6,900 cycles is not good enough, declares the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB). Disks with...
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| 09.01.2006 |
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Safety Case Studies
The fuel tank explosion May 4 on a Malaysian-registered B727 freighter has added weight to the imperative to inert all fuel tanks, according to a National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB). A July 20 letter was sent to the Federal Aviation Administration to...
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| 08.01.2006 |
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Mx Safety
The TWA Flight 800 disaster in many respects reflects a failure of maintenance, and the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) issued a press release as the 10th anniversary of the crash approached. The NTSB remains disappointed that fuel tank inerting...
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| 07.01.2006 |
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MX SAFETY
SAFETY CASE STUDIES COCKPIT DOOR MELTDOWN Heat damaged wiring in the doorframe, above the locking solenoid of the cockpit security door, was discovered in post-incident examination of a World Airways MD-11. The door had sustained damage during cruise on a...
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| 06.01.2006 |
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Maintenance Safety
MAINTENANCE CHECKS OF COCKPIT VOICE RECORDERS The two pilots and eight passengers were killed when a Sikorsky S-76A helicopter supporting offshore oil drilling crashed in the Gulf of Mexico. The National Transportation Board (NTSB) investigated and concluded...
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| 05.01.2006 |
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Safety Case Studies
Gaps in procedures and less than professional attitude leads to engine power loss. MECHANIC BLAMED FOR AIRPLANE CRASH ON HIGHWAY The plane landed on a minivan in which a 12-year old girl was a passenger, and its propeller nearly sliced off the girl's entire...
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| 04.01.2006 |
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Safety Case Studies
Safety Case Studies examines aviation incidents and accidents that involved maintenance as either a probable cause or as a factor. The cases are culled from the National Transportation Safety Board database, from news reports, and from foreign accident...
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| 03.01.2006 |
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About Safety
Contract Mechanic Sucked into Engine, Killed A mechanic, Donald Buchanan, working for Julie's Aircraft Services of El Paso, Texas as a contract maintenance provider for Continental Airlines, was sucked into a 737 engine and killed January 16, 2006. Buchanan...
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| 03.01.2006 |
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Safety Case Studies
Safety Case Studies examines aviation incidents and accidents that involved maintenance as either a probable cause or as a factor. The cases are culled from the National Transportation Safety Board database, from news reports and from foreign accident...
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| 02.01.2006 |
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About Safety
On October 27, the FAA released a new Special Airworthiness Information Bulletin--SAIB CE-06-05--warning mechanics to inspect and replace pre-1978 NAS-649 turnbuckles. The turnbuckles, which are used on aircraft flight control cables, are cracking in the...
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| 02.01.2006 |
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Safety Case Studies
Accident Case Studies examines aviation accidents that involve maintenance as either a probable cause or factor. The information in Accident Case Studies is obtained from National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) reports, regulatory authorities and accident...
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| 12.01.2005 |
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About Safety
Unapproved Parts Notification? A recent check of the unapproved parts notifcations posted on the FAA's website revealed an unusual entry. Listed there was a notice to all aircraft owners, operators, and maintenance organizations about aircraft and engines...
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| 12.01.2005 |
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Safety Case Studies
Safety Case Studies examines aviation accidents that involve maintenance as either a probable cause or factor. The information in Safety Case Studies is obtained from National Transportation Safety Board reports, regulatory authorities and accident...
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| 11.01.2005 |
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Safety Case Studies
Safety Case Studies examines aviation accidents that involve maintenance as either a probable cause or factor. The information in Safety Case Studies is obtained from National Transportation Safety Board reports, regulatory au-thorities and accident...
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| 11.01.2005 |
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SDRs and Mx Alerts
Canadair CL-600: A repair station technician investigating an intermittent circuit breaker fault for this aircraft's upper anti-collision light wrote: "[I] discovered the L/H elevator control cable had torn through the wiring conduit in the vertical...
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| 07.01.2004 |
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Postflight
The Entrepreneurial Spirit Find a viable market in a robust industry and give it all you've got. Such a business philosophy sounds good, but it would likely steer one away from the airline industry in recent years. It did not scare Jerry Hernandez away...
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| 04.01.2004 |
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NDTec Audits NDT Services
In today's maintenance shop, eddy current, ultrasonic, X-ray, and other NDT technologies are becoming as commonplace as ratchet sets. As our reliance on these tests grows, we have to ask the question: how can we be sure our NDT tests are giving us the answers...
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| 11.01.2003 |
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Fighting Fire with Neptune Maintenance
Neptune Aviation Services keeps an aging fleet of Lockheeds flying safely and reliably so they can fly another day in the endless fight against forest fires. Over the years, aviation maintenance professionals certainly see change. For example, Juan Trippe...
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| 10.01.2003 |
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Stene Aviation's Small Successful PMA Parts Business
Sometimes finding a niche and filling the need for an alternative supplier of small high-wear parts in enough to create a viable business in aviation. Playing the numbers is probably a better investment than trying to start a small manufacturing business...
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