Safety Management Systems: The Future of Air Safety
The Air Charter Safety Foundation's 2008 Air Charter Safety Symposium, entitled "Developing a Healthy Safety Culture" took place February 19-20 at the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) Training Center in Ashburn, VA, near Washington, DC. Despite improving safety statistics, the Air... [read more]
Preliminary Report on North Carolina King Air Fatal Crash
A Beech King Air (N57WR), which crashed Feb. 1, 2008 less than 1,000 feet from the Mount Airy-Surry County (N.C.) airport (MWK), "side stepped" the runway on its initial approach, climbed into the morning fog before descending from the clouds and nose-dived into a neighborhood, killing all six...
Certification of EFBs with Moving Maps Pending
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has sped up the certification process for some Electronic Flight Bags (EFBs) that provide pilots with more detailed runway information than is available by simply looking out the cockpit windscreen. The U.S. aviation agency said that an EFB made by Jeppesen, a unit...
Heathrow Boeing 777 Crash Update
The January 17, 2008 crash landing of a British Airways Boeing 777 at London Heathrow remains a mystery with release of an interim report by the UK Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB). But accident investigators are now concentrating on possible issues with the twinjet's high pressure fuel pumps. No...
More Safety Problems for Qantas 747s
The Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) says 14 of Qantas' 30 Boeing 747-400s were found to have cracked drip shields similar to those on a Boeing 747 that lost electrical power while approaching Bangkok on Jan. 7, 2008. Meanwhile, the ATSB's preliminary report into the electrical system failure...
New Welding Cart Improves Safety
An enhanced welding cart patented by the Vandenberg AFB Training Device Design and Engineering Center (TDDEC), which increases personnel safety, is now available commercially through Spika Welding & Manufacturing, Moccasin, Montana. According to the U.S. Department of Labor, 15,500 welding accidents...
Changi Airport to Field FOD Finder
The Stratech Systems iFerret runway surveillance system has been selected by the Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore (CAAS) for Runways 1 and 2 at Singapore's Changi Airport. The $12 million contract marks the first commercial sale of the air safety system, which detects, identifies, tracks and displays...
Most USAF F-15 Eagle Fighters Back on Duty
Air Combat Command (ACC) returned 149 grounded F-15s to flight status in mid-February after maintenance personnel completed customized inspections of each of the aircraft's longerons. This "stand-down release" order brought the total number of cleared A, B, C and D-model F-15 Eagle aircraft to 429...
Viking to Undertake Aviation Safety Research
The S-3B Viking was built to take off and land on aircraft carriers, conducting anti-submarine warfare missions. It's rugged, fast and powerful, but its fighting days are numbered. Though the U.S. Navy is slowly decommissioning the fleet, one S-3B is still flying in hostile conditions. Its next mission...
Screeners Find Hidden Box Cutter and Gun Parts
Transportation Security Administration (TSA) screeners continue to strip airline passengers of illegal weaponry. Take for example, the Clearwater, Florida man who recently pleaded guilty, saying he had forgotten about the cleverly hidden box cutter. The X-ray image of a box cutter inside Benjamin Baines'...
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