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September 21, 2009
S&S at the Core
In a speech to the International Aviation Club of Washington, DC, International Air Transport Association (IATA) Director General and CEO Giovanni Bisignani said both safety and security remain concerns for the world's financially-strapped airlines. IATA...
September 21, 2009
Towards Better Cabin Air Quality
BAE Systems and Quest International UK have introduced the AirManager, a new active air management system, which they say sets a new standard for exceptionally clean air on board aircraft. In addition to introducing AirManager onto its own BAe 146/Avro RJ...
September 21, 2009
A Better 'Black Box'
In the wake of the fatal crash of an Air France Airbus A330-200 in the Atlantic on May 31, 2009 and the inability of searchers to retrieve the jetliner's flight data recorder (FDR) and cockpit voice recorder (CVR) from the bottom of the deep ocean water...
September 21, 2009
Babbitt Targets Lack of Professionalism
Federal Aviation Administrator Randy Babbitt continued to focus on regional safety in a speech to the International Safety Forum in Washington on Sept. 10, citing the difference in the professionalism of US Airway's Sully Sullenberger and those of Colgan...
September 21, 2009
High Profile Air Crashes Raise Concerns
The rate of commercial jet crashes around the world is climbing and a spate of recent fatal accidents threatens to push the totals to levels not seen since the 1990s. "If we continue at this pace, we'll be turning the clock back 10 years on safety,"...
September 21, 2009
Safety & Technology Trends
Tool Kit for Runway Excursions The Flight Safety Foundation (FSF) has released a Runway Excursion Risk Reduction (RERR) tool kit. The toolkit, a joint effort between FSF and the International Air Transport Association (IATA), provides an in depth analysis of...
September 21, 2009
Security Shortlines
Meeting the Cargo Security Mandate The Air Transport Association of America (ATA), in a letter to air cargo shippers regarding the congressionally mandated August 2010 deadline for 100 percent screening of all cargo on passenger planes, outlined its support...
September 21, 2009
Safety Rules & Regs
Flightcrew Alerting; Reopening of Comment Period. Notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM); reopening of comment period. SUMMARY: On July 9, 2009, the FAA published an NPRM to amend the airworthiness standards for flightcrew alerting and invited comments for a...
September 21, 2009
Accidents & Incidents
Date Aircraft Type Narrative Death/Injury Remarks August 01, 2009 Nairobi, Kenya CESSNA U206 N5Y-LMB A/c owned and operated by African Inland Mission collided with the ground. 1 fatality, one serious A/c conducting low flight while passengers filming...
September 14, 2009
Southwest Airlines to Replace Unapproved Parts
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) will require Southwest Airlines to replace unapproved parts installed on about 50 Boeing 737s and for these aircraft to undergo inspections until fixes are made. The budget air carrier has already replaced parts on 30...
September 14, 2009
FAA Orders Airbus Pitot Tube Switch
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has ordered the replacement of pitot tubes on Airbus A330s of the type suspected of playing a role in the crash of Air France Flight 447 in June. The FAA said in a notice published in the Federal Register that U.S...
September 14, 2009
Air Trek Airborne; FAA Ordered to Cough Up Cash
A National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) administrative law judge has ordered the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to pay Air Trek, a Punta Gorda, FL-based air ambulance operator, $120,000 for attorney fees and expenses related to a failed...
September 14, 2009
Yemenia Black Boxes Recovered
Search teams in late August located the flight data and cockpit voice recorders on the Yemenia Airlines Airbus A310 that crashed off the Comoros islands on June 30, killing 152 people. The so-called 'black boxes' were located after a week of search led by a...
September 14, 2009
Researchers Develop UAS Simulations for ATC
Looking into the skies over Daytona Beach, FL you'll notice plenty of aircraft. Home to one of Embry-Riddle's residential campuses, Daytona Beach boasts the second busiest general-aviation airport in the nation. But one kind of aircraft you won't see anywhere...
September 14, 2009
Safety & Technology Trends
Boston Logan Gets ASDE-X Boston Logan International is now operating with the Sensis Airport Surface Detection Equipment, Model X (ASDE-X), a runway incursion detection and alerting system. Logan is the 19th airport to receive the technology through the FAA's...
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