Posts Tagged ‘aviation safety’

Recent pilot-related near-mishaps raises concern in aviation circles

Monday, November 16, 2009 4:05

A series of recent incidents involving pilot behaviour have given rise to widespread concerns in the passenger-aviation sector.

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UAE drawing up blacklist of unsafe airlines

Tuesday, November 10, 2009 20:09

The aviation regulator of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) is preparing a blacklist of airlines that are to be banned from using airports in the UAE owing to poor safety records or other issues of concern.

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Licences of Northwest Airlines pilots who were busy with their laptops in cockpit suspended

Thursday, October 29, 2009 8:23

The licences of the two airline pilots have been suspended after the incident in which they not only overflew their destination – the Minneapolis-Saint Paul International Airport – a week ago but also was out of contact with the air traffic control (ATC) for about 80 minutes in spite of repeated calls from the ATC tower.

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US House of Representatives passes Airline Safety and Pilot Training Improvement Act of 2009

Saturday, October 17, 2009 19:29

The United States House of Representatives has passed the Airline Safety and Pilot Training Improvement Act of 2009.

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US FAA proposes fines against United Airlines, US Airways for violating safety norms

Thursday, October 15, 2009 18:59

The United States Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has proposed fines against two major US-based airlines – US Airways and United Airlines – for having flown their  planes “on hundreds of occasions” violating the FAA’s rules or other standards for airline safety.

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After crash of Air France Flight 447, NTSB investigates malfunctions on two other Airbus A330 planes

Sunday, June 28, 2009 8:54

The United States National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) is investigating possible malfunctions of the airspeed sensor and altitude sensor on board Airbus A330 aircraft, the same type of plane that crashed into the Atlantic Ocean on June 1, 2009.

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Post-crash, Air France replaces airspeed monitors in its entire fleet of Airbus A330 and A340 planes

Sunday, June 21, 2009 18:15

Air France has completed replacing airspeed monitors aboard the carrier’s long-haul passenger planes Airbus A330 and Airbus A340 following the cash of the Air France Flight 447.

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Researchers find that US Airways’ Flight 1549 had bumped into a flock of Canada geese

Thursday, June 11, 2009 4:21

Scientific examination has revealed that the birds which caused US Airways’ Flight 1549 to splash-land in the Hudson River in New York on January 15, 2009, were migratory Canada geese.

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Experts connect crash of Air France’s Flight 447 to high-speed winds and lightning

Wednesday, June 3, 2009 12:11

Air France’s Flight 447 that crashed into the Atlantic Ocean on May 31, 2009, might have flown into updrafts that shook the plane and also into lightning, which together contributed in knocking the plane out of the sky, according to aviation experts.

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Investigators blame maintenance crew of American Airlines for fire in engine of Flight 1400

Wednesday, April 8, 2009 8:12

Investigators of the United States National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) have blamed the maintenance workers of American Airlines for the emergency landing of Flight 1400 at Lambert-St Louis International Airport in St Louis, Missouri, the United States, on September 28, 2007.

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FAA wants to keep information on bird strikes secret

Sunday, March 29, 2009 3:32

The United States Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has proposed to keep information about bird strikes secret.

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FAA grounds 2,800 Bell helicopters across the United States for safety inspection

Thursday, March 19, 2009 16:07

The United States Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has ordered grounding and inspection of Bell Helicopter’s civil aircraft models for checking and repairing a control mechanism that was improperly installed.

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US team begins evaluating Abuja airport in Nigeria on safety and security

Wednesday, March 18, 2009 14:47

The United States Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has started security and safety assessment of the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport located in Abuja, the capital city of Nigeria, as a part of the measures to enable airlines based in Nigeria to fly to the United States.

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European Union may not downgrade aviation safety rating of Israel-based airlines

Tuesday, March 17, 2009 19:06

The Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) of Israel’s Transportation Ministry has said that the European Union does not intend to downgrade the safety rating of Israeli airlines following talks held in Brussels between the officials of the Israel Airports Authority (IAA) and a representative of the European Union over the flight safety of overseas carriers.

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Boeing 777s may land in trouble again; NTSB asks Rolls-Royce to re-design engine component

Tuesday, March 17, 2009 8:41

The agency that investigates air accidents in the United States has warned that there is “a high probability” of the fault which led to the crashlanding of two Boeing 777s in 2008 happening to other aircraft.

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Southwest Airlines to pay $7.5-million fine for missed safety checks

Southwest Airlines to pay $7.5-million fine for missed safety checks

Wednesday, March 4, 2009 18:28

Southwest Airlines, the low-fare airline based in Dallas, Texas, the United States, has agreed to pay a $7.5 million in penalties for a series of serious maintenance lapses.

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‘Hero of the Hudson’ warns that pay cuts by airlines may put safety at risk

Wednesday, February 25, 2009 18:48

Chesley ‘Sully’ Sullenberger, who successfully landed a stricken plane of the US Airways in the Hudson River in New York in January 2009, is sad about the state of the airline industry which he said was “in disarray.”

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Australia’s aviation watchdog to get greater powers to oversee safety of foreign airlines

Saturday, February 14, 2009 13:19

The Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA), the aviation watchdog of Australia, is to be given greater powers to check the safety of foreign airlines.

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American Airlines inspects its MD-80 planes after damage to evacuation slides was discovered

Tuesday, February 10, 2009 19:25

American Airlines, headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas, the United States, had to inspect and begin follow-up action in order to bring its fleet of about 270 McDonnell Douglas MD-80 aircraft into full compliance with the safety rules after mistakes in maintenance led to damage of the passenger-evacuation slides on the rear of many MD-80 jets.

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US National Transportation Safety Board moots 10 rules for news-gathering helicopters

Tuesday, February 3, 2009 19:16

The United States National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has proposed 10 rules for news gathering helicopters.

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Delta Air Lines restores Aviation Safety Action Program

Thursday, January 29, 2009 17:15

Delta Air Lines, based in Atlanta, Georgia, the United States, and the world's largest airline, has reached an agreement with the Air Line Pilots Association and the United States Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to reinstate the voluntary programme that allows pilots to report openly concerns over safety.

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Airbus plane that landed in Hudson River had engines which FAA had earlier ordered to inspect

Friday, January 23, 2009 6:41

It has been revealed that the United States Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) had ordered stringent inspection of the type of engines on the US Airways plane that splash-landed in New York's Hudson River after a few of those engines were found to have a rare kind of stall problem known as "compression stall."

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Flight attendants of American Airlines take up Aviation Safety Action Program

Tuesday, January 20, 2009 8:53

American Airlines, headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas, the United States, has partnered with the Association of Professional Flight Attendants (APFA) and the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to launch the Aviation Safety Action Program (ASAP).

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US Airways Flight 1549 black boxes reveal both engines lost power together after bird hit

Monday, January 19, 2009 19:40

‘Miracle on the Hudson’: Both engines had failed at the same time, black boxes reveal.

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Chesley ‘Sully’ Sullenberger: US Airways pilot as national hero

Chesley ‘Sully’ Sullenberger: US Airways pilot as national hero

Saturday, January 17, 2009 9:48

Chesley ‘Sully’ Sullenberger: Commercial aviation pilot as national hero after successful landing of US Airways flight in Hudson River after losing both engines

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Aviation safety row: Seven US-based airlines sue FAA over new crew-rest rules

Wednesday, January 7, 2009 10:58

Seven airlines based in the United States have sued the United States Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) alleging that the agency “broke its own rules and may have compromised flight safety when it set new standards for pilot rest times without input from the carriers.”

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Southwest Airlines feels the $10.2-million fine is too much, negotiates with FAA for reduction

Friday, January 2, 2009 4:58

Southwest Airlines, the low-cost airline based in Dallas, Texas, the United States, is negotiating with the United States Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) seeking to reduce the $10.2-million penalty that the aviation regulator had imposed on the airline for flying its Boeing 737 jets without required inspections.

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US Federal Aviation Administration downgrades Israel’s aviation safety ranking

Thursday, November 20, 2008 19:26

The United States Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has decided to lower Israel’s aviation security ranking after an inspection revealed what the FAA termed “severe security shortcomings in Israel’s Civil Aviation Authority.”

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Security steps jacked up for private flights departing from and arriving in US

Tuesday, November 18, 2008 11:07

The United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is taking steps to strengthen security vis-à-vis general aviation (GA) “to minimise further the vulnerability of GA aircraft flights being used to deliver illicit materials, transport dangerous individuals or employ aircraft as a weapon.”

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FAA re-issues warning to pilots of Boeing 737 aircraft over in-flight warning horn

Wednesday, November 12, 2008 9:11

The Unites States Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has re-issued an urgent airworthiness directive requiring that pilots of Boeing 737 aircraft be advised to pay attention if they hear an in-flight warning horn.

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