Rockwell Collins avionics could be flying in a variety of new and existing Russian-made commercial aircraft and helicopters under a new agreement with St. Petersburg-based Transas Aviation. A division of the Transas Group, Transas Aviation builds integrated avionics, navigation and flight management systems and related avionics for Russian and international flying fixed-wing aircraft and helicopters.
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Aer Lingus has defined what now looks like the final version of its long-haul fleet strategy. The airline plans to take delivery of a mix of Airbus A350-900s and A350-900 Regionals between 2018 and 2020. That represents a delay of up to three years compared to earlier scenarios.
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With street violence still being reported in Bangkok, Thailand’s aviation and travel sectors are feeling the effects in the form of dramatically lower passenger numbers.
A tail wind and a braking system installation error by the Tashkent Aircraft Production Company were among the causes and contributing factors that led to an overrun of a Volga-Dnepr Ilyushin IL-76D on Runway 11 at the St. John’s International Airport in Newfoundland, Canada in August 2012, according to a final report on the incident by Canada’s Transportation Safety Board (TSB).
Norwegian Air International (NAI), in its closing salvo arguing for expedited approval from the U.S. DOT to launch service between the U.S. and Europe, laid out more detail about why it sought to base itself in a European Union (EU) country.
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The FAA today is expected to propose more rigorous inspections of Boeing 737 Classic forward galley service door areas, based on “multiple” reports of operators discovering cracks in areas not currently targeted for checks. The proposed directive, based on a revised Boeing alert service bulletin (ASB) issued in September, targets fuselage skin and bear straps, or skin doublers, around the doors. The checks are a mix of detailed (visual) and low-frequency eddy-current inspections, and the inspection type and intervals vary based on the specific airframe type.
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Frantz Yvelin, founder of all-business carrier L’Avion, and former Jet Airways COO Peter Luethi have created a French company called Dreamjet as the basis for a new start-up airline slated for launch this year.
Transport Canada (TC), prompted by findings in the probe of a 2010 Air Nelson Q300 that landed without its nose gear fully extended, has ordered Dash 8 Classic operators to fix a faulty landing gear lockdown indication system that can mask a gear malfunction. The airworthiness directive (AD), published earlier this month and effective Feb. 27, gives operators 100 days or 600 hr. to inspect landing gear alternate indication phototransistors. Follow-up checks are required at the same interval.
European Commissioner for Transport Siim Kallas—who is considering stepping down before his mandate expires on Oct. 31 to become prime minister of Estonia—believes the highest level of political decision-makers has not yet realized that the fragmentation of the European Union’s airspace is a problem. He also wonders if a “mutiny by passengers” protesting flight delays will be needed for member states and national airspace navigation service providers (ANSP) to accept the need for creating the Single European Sky (SES) air traffic management (ATM) system.
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Air France-KLM Group’s combined maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) unit, bolstered by several new ventures, grew third-party revenues 12% in 2013 to €1.2 billon ($1.7 billion) and is in position to deliver more of the same thanks to a swelling order book.
According to an ongoing investigation, the UPS pilots flying an Airbus A300-600 that slammed into a hill short of Runway 18 at the Birmingham-Shuttlesworth (Ala.) Airport on Aug. 14 had improperly programmed the aircraft’s automation system, and failed to follow standard operating procedures during the early morning approach after a flight from Louisville, Ky. Whether fatigue, training or documentation may have played a role in the pilots’ performance are key elements of an investigative hearing the NTSB held in Washington Feb. 20.
