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| 08.31.2009 |
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NTSB Urges MD-80 Flaps Safety Check
A year after a Spanish jetliner crashed and killed 154 people because the pilots failed to properly configure the plane's flaps before takeoff, the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) is urging the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), airlines...
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| 08.31.2009 |
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Airline Pilots Without Radios Feared the Worst
Think fast. What do you do if you are the flight deck crew of an Airbus jetliner flying from Spain to England, and while flying over France you suffer an electrical failure that takes out all of your radios, electronic instrument displays and automatic flight...
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| 08.31.2009 |
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Avionics Magazine/RTCA Team on NextGen
Avionics Magazine and standards-setting organization RTCA have teamed to present a one-day conference, "NowGen NEXT," Sept. 15 in Washington, D.C. The conference, featuring FAA Administrator Randy Babbitt as keynote speaker, will be the public...
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| 08.31.2009 |
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Safety & Technology Trends
Chris Hart Now NTSB Vice Chair President Barack Obama has designated National Transportation Safety Board Member Christopher A. Hart as the agency's vice chairman. Hart was sworn in as a member of the NTSB on August 12 to a term that ends December 31, 2012...
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| 08.31.2009 |
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Safety Rules & Regs
Airworthiness Directives; BAE Systems (Operations) Limited (Jetstream) Model 410. Final rule. SUMMARY: This AD results from mandatory continuing airworthiness information (MCAI) originated by an aviation authority of another country to identify and correct an...
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| 08.31.2009 |
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Accidents & Incidents
Date Aircraft Type Narrative Death/Injury Remarks August 01, 2009 West Point, VA BEECH B90 N1999G A/c operated by Rampart Aviation substantially damaged during skydive flight from Middle Peninsula Regional Airport (FYJ). Flight departed and climbed to 14,000...
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| 08.31.2009 |
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Mesa/DL Dispute Heats Up, Virgin America 2Q Loss; More News
After Delta filed a new lawsuit against Mesa on August 19, Mesa, in a Friday SEC filing, said its partner was seeking a declaratory judgment allowing it to terminate its contract with Mesa subsidiary Freedom Airlines. Mesa has said that should the contract be...
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| 08.31.2009 |
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A380 Autopilot/Flight Director TCAS
Airbus says a new Auto-Pilot/Flight-Director Traffic Alert and Collision Avoidance System mode for the A380 jetliner has been approved and certified by the European Aviation Safety Agency. The main benefit of the...
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| 08.28.2009 |
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Iberia Reorganizes Management
As part of an effort to regain a profitable footing, Iberia restructured its management, six weeks after the appointment of the company’s new chair and CEO. Antonio Vazquez Romero, who replaced Fernando Conte, announced the restructuring, saying its aim...
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| 08.28.2009 |
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World’s Airlines Still in Red as Demand Improves in July
The International Air Transport Association (IATA) said scheduled traffic results for July showing passenger demand declining 2.9% compared to the same month in the previous year while freight demand was down 11.3%. The international passenger load factors...
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| 08.28.2009 |
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Eurocopter Flight Training in Russia
Eurocopter and UTair, the largest Russian helicopter operator, have signed a memorandum of agreement to jointly develop a flight training center in Tyumen, West Siberia, Russia. The new flight training center will commence operations at the beginning of 2010...
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| 08.27.2009 |
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Jetstream to be Next-Gen Airline IT System; More News
After pioneering the development of airline information technology 50 years ago with the invention of Sabre, AMR Corp said it will invent, with HP, the next-gen IT system – a breakthrough solution that will exploit the growing use of technology to give...
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| 08.26.2009 |
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Travelers Won’t Pay for Going Green
A minority of travelers are willing to pay for green travel but the vast majority, while paying attention to which travel providers are going green, will not pay for it, according to a new survey out this morning. The survey seems to confirm the experience of...
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| 08.26.2009 |
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One More Day to Sign Up
This year has seen some of the worst controversies surrounding aviation safety in more than a decade as analysts debate the impact of such accidents as Colgan Flight 3407, the subject of Senate hearings yesterday, as well as Air France 447. For that reason...
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| 08.25.2009 |
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Third Time the Charm? AK Takes Another Run at Virgin
In its third petition this year, Alaska Airlines renewed its request the U.S. Department of Transportation schedule a public hearing in it’s on going review of Virgin America’s citizenship status. The petitions come at a time when Congress is...
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| 08.25.2009 |
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A La Carte Fees Proliferate; More News
U.S. airlines collected $566 million in baggage fees in the first three months of 2009, up from $123 million in the same period last year, an increase of over 360 percent, according to the U.S. Transportation Department (DOT). That rate of increase is...
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| 08.25.2009 |
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Building a Stronger Air Transport Sector
The International Air Transport Association (IATA) sees the need for greater cooperation to meet unprecedented challenges in the air transport industry. "The global situation of the air transport sector is a disaster," said Giovanni Bisignani...
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| 08.24.2009 |
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Air France Ends 'Black Box' Hunt
The French Bureau of Enquiry and Analysis (BEA) for Civil Aviation Safety has abandoned its search for the flight data and cockpit voice recorders from the Air France passenger jet that crashed in the Atlantic Ocean while enroute from Rio de Janeiro to Paris...
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| 08.24.2009 |
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FOD Finder in Vancouver
Vancouver International Airport (YVR) is the first commercial airport in the world to link a day and night camera to its existing Tarsier Foreign Object Debris (FOD) radar detection system. The new camera upgrades the airport's 24-hour automated runway debris...
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| 08.24.2009 |
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Safety Rules & Regs
18th Meeting: RTCA Special Committee 206/EUROCAE WG 76 Plenary. The FAA is issuing this notice to advise the public of a meeting of RTCA Special Committee 206: Aeronautical Information Services and Meteorology Data Link Services. The meeting will be held...
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