Air Safety Week:<br><br>Aromatic polyimide insulation. Sometimes referred to by its trade name, Kapton, the military services have restricted its use, as in ...
You have to just shake your head and wonder. <br><br>Who the hell DO they share their information with then?<br><br>How are accidents like SR111 to be...
Napa, In the case of sr111 here is what the article said that Mikey passed along:<br><br>"In the case of the massive Swissair investigation, the board has ...
<In the case of the massive Swissair investigation, the board has already issued one safety letter, two sets of safety advisories, and three sets of safety...
About the only change I notice is the one you would have thought they were doing all along- landing as soon as possible when experiencing smoke in the ...
Good morning, Barbara...<br><br>In response to your comment, "...I don't think even Canada's own regulatory body has adopted the recommendations from the TSB ...
Christopher, I'm hearing that not all these TSB recommendations are going to become regulations. Unfortunately I don't have specific enough information to...
Barbara...<br><br>I am not aware of a quick way to make a correlation between a TSB recommendation and a specific Notice of Proposed Amendment (NPA). Where the...
From Air Safety Week:<br><br>Refuse-to-Crash Concept to Foil Terrorists Rejected<br> <br>In the wake of the multiple coordinated hijackings of Sept. 11, 2001,...
Point-counterpoint<br>Technical issues<br><br>Report: "In order to implement the restrictions, the aircraft primary control system and probably engine ...
IASA: "Terrorism is likely to be around forever and airplanes as weapons of mass destruction are now only second to clandestine NBC [nuclear, chemical, ...
Looking to the future <br>Let us introduce into the debate a third party: Raymond Hudson, an expert in avionics systems design with decades of experience in...
Pilot air marshals. According to Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) head Jane Garvey, "Literally hundreds of air marshals are being trained." However, the...
Appropriately trained federal law enforcement officers, and selected state, municipal and local law enforcement officers should be authorized to carry their ...
From Air Safety Week:<br>Text of the pilots' letter follows:<br><br>Fellow Airbus Pilots<br><br>It has been over 7 weeks since Flight 587 went down killing all...
In meetings in Boston, Miami and New York with A-300 pilots, AA fleet managers were forthright and honest with us: they said they are '50-50' on whether or not...
Barb, I doubt ANY pilot worth his wings has to be told to land as soon as possible if there is evidence of smoke. <br><br>The TSB should be shamed for even...
>Barb, I doubt ANY pilot worth his wings has to be told to land as soon as possible if there is evidence of smoke.<<br><br>That's certainly the ...
I wrote to this guy a couple of years ago to see what he knew but didn't receive a response.<br><br><a href=http://clubs.yahoo.com/clubs/aircraftsafety...
Furthermore, we've had people come on this site that were huge fans of swissair (that even belong to a club where they discuss exactly that), that have ...
Global Airline Industrty In Trouble? <br> <br>Feb 5, 2002 <br><br>The global airline industry lost USD$15 billion last year, according to Pierre Jeanniot, ...