International Course on Human Factors in Flight Safety & Accident Investigation, SAS Flight Academy, Stockholm, 4 - 9 June 2007. The 2007 course is of particular operational relevance, and practical value in light of amendments to ICAO Annexes 6, 11 and 14, which prescribe safety management systems for aircraft operators, maintenance repair and overhaul organizations, airports and ATC
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23 May
Over 70 pilots have resigned from Indonesia's ailing national carrier Garuda so far this year, citing low pay and poor working conditions. This compares with a loss of about 110 pilots over the prior 18 months. Garuda has between 550 and 600 pilots to fly a fleet of 50 Boeings. The departing pilots are being snapped up by Garuda's low-cost competitors for higher wages
23 May
Major Brazilian newspapers are picking up on the deceptions perpetrated by the Brazilian Government about the GOL/ Legacy mid-air collision and the relative roles played by Brazilian ATC and the US pilots. A full transcript of the Legacy CVR was recently passed to the media proving that the Legacy pilots were very much on the job and truthful. Meanwhile the president of the Association of Brazilian Air Traffic Controllers, Jorge Nunes Oliveira, is being quoted as saying: "I always used to say that, despite everything, Brazil's air traffic control was safe. But I don't think that anymore."
23 May
On June 28, African governments will inaugurate in a ceremony in Windhoek, Namibia a continent-wide air safety agency modeled on the EU's Aviation Safety Agency and the U.S. FAA. "From now on the African continent will speak with one voice on aviation safety," said Harry Eggerschwiler, chief of operations for the African Civil Aviation Authority, or AFRO-CAA. The motivation is the number of accidents per million takeoffs in Africa reaching 4.31 in 2006, compared to a world-wide average of only 0.65 and the EU bans on African airlines reaching 74 ? from a total international blacklist of 91. The new agency will have a total of around 80-100 staff at its Windhoek headquarters and another 25 in its 5 regional offices.
20 May
[tinyurl.com/2azbg9 ] Thrust Reverser falls off Cathay Pacific 747 on landing Frankfurt 20 May 07 (imagery)
18 May
CASA wanted to do snap safety inspections across Australia last week; the only problem was the industry knew about it three days beforehand. Known colloquially as the Big Day Out, 32 inspectors checked six airports and got involved with "several dozen" crews and aircraft across multiple airlines. "Industry ground crew knew about the BDO three days beforehand," Senator O'Brien told a Senate committee. CASA senior executive Patrick Murray said he wasn't worried by the leak.
16 May
A British Airways stewardess popped her own store-bought curry ready meal into a 747's club class microwave, with highly explosive results. The galley subsequently needed days of repairs totaling ?20,000. This prompted BA to circulate details of the incident in a secret email memo to long haul crews, chillingly entitled "Microwave incident". It noted that food intended for high-altitude reheating needs "special packaging" since the aircraft's ovens have twice the power output of your ground-based domestic model. BA cabin-crew are now banned from preparing their own meals in 747s' club class microwaves.
13 May
At 1129 UTC, a Ryanair Boeing 737-800, EI-DCX, experienced a partial loss of flight displays after departure from Stansted UK. The pilots declared a PAN and returned to Stansted instead of continuing on to Stockholm. There were 176 people on board. The Air Accidents Investigation Branch is conducting an investigation. A possible bearing upon the Kenya Airways KQ507 accident in Douala Cameroon on 4 May?
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