The Precipitating NOTAM
On Questioning The Need To Snow In an era where airlines are treating pilots' flight time limits (FTL) as targets, the time available for an operation's dispatch outbrief is limited. Pilots cannot afford to turn up early and spend an extra 20 minutes reading through copious paperwork preflight or they would... [read more]
Relevant Revelations?
Kenya Airways Crash At Douala On Saturday 05 May, a Kenya Airlines flight from Douala, Cameroon to Nairobi went missing. After some "red herring" searches in entirely the wrong area owing to a very transitory ELT fix (see "A Call for Dust-off" in ASW 21 May 07 or tinyurl.com/2wgeku), the...
IOSA- A Compelling Force For Change
IATA's Safety Shove In Africa Compulsion, competition and threatened exclusion are three complementary factors in inducement. Where Africa and flight safety are concerned, it's now become a benign coercion process that's thrust airline deregulation back into insignificance, if not irrelevance. Six months...
Safety News In Brief
After the failure of all six computer control systems on 07 June in the Russian part of the International Space Station and the subsequent inability of the Russian computers to work with the American computers, control was reportedly passed to maneuvering jets on the Atlantis shuttle. The new Space Station...
Security Roundup
"Security Assurance": This is the new term for security surveillance of security personnel. Birmingham International Airport UK is setting up a ?100,000 'security assurance program' to monitor the performance of sub-contract workers on site. Earlier in June, ITV's Tonight show filmed security...
Significant Regulatory Activity
It is just a matter of time before lithium ion batteries cost lives in aircraft....here is another example of an explosive laptop fire from American Airline's terminal at LAX a couple of weeks ago. i.e. around 07 Jun 07. Video is at tinyurl.com/3ao8ja Aircraft Effect Special Conditions No. 25-07-12-SC Boeing...
Accidents And Incidents
DATE/SITE AIRCRAFT & REGN CIRCUMSTANCES DEATH & INJURY PRELIMINARY ANALYSIS2 IMAGERY AT WWW.IASA.COM.AU/250607.HTM 04 Mar day Copenhagen Denm MD80 of SAS Returned after about 10 minutes with heavy electrical fumes in the cockpit nil Acft was back on the ground in record time, according to a passenger...
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