n our news here today, it has been reported that the 13 military Aurora aircraft working out of Greenwood NS have been grounded. It was discovered over the ...
ast Tuesday a Metrojet 737-200 banked unexpectantly cruising at FL330 during a flight from Orlando,Fla to Hartford,Conn. AVFLASH reports that the crew was...
es, this Scandinavian carrier (not Swiss) had<br>to cancel abt 150 out of 1000 departures last<br>Thursday, after it had been discovered that on<br>a total of...
ey Barbara<br>In SAS´ own pressrelease(cannot find it on Internet) they state that a routinecheck in maintenance procedures revealed missing ultrasound...
hat is pretty odd. Swissair also seems to have a strict maintenance policy and yet some of the discoveries coming out of the TSB investigation are downright ...
his information was reported in an AVFLASH today.<br><br>BF GOODRICH MAINTENANCE FACILITY AND FAA UNDER THE MICROSCOPE<br>The world's largest third-party...
ell, once again you are two steps ahead of even those of us in Nova Scotia! I don't get the Daily News, so I didn't see that headline. I was referring to the...
i,<br><br>It's amazing how many people really believing that driving is far riskier than flying. The fact is that all statements about this compare driving ...
hank you for the info. It was your discovery of the Greenwood incident that led me to check the Halifax Daily in the first place. For future reference the url...
im you had asked if there was any information on the web about this particular aircraft. If you able to do an Alta Vista search it brings up several web sites...
ome years ago one of the safety magazines <it may have been ALPA> came out with a statistic:<br><br>While flying may be safer for the general public than...
think you're right and you are wrong. <br><br>Where they go wrong with the comparisons is not with distance. Airliners travel 10 times faster than cars so if ...
lost the end of that...<br><br>That is true to an extent, but anyone who has done the defensive driving course knows that you can turn the unavoidable accident...
erhaps I haven't followed the original line of reasoning here, but I'm lost at why you think it's so important that "there were no fatalities with US airlines ...
ith tomorrow fast approaching, I realize this will be such a difficult day for you. I want you to know that my thoughts, spirit, and prayers will be with...
h, come on now. OK that is a slightly contrived statistic, but it is still an amazing one. Just go and look see how many flights there are EVERY day in ...
think in a world where code sharing has become more prevalent it is ridiculous to not count the Swissair tragedy in the FAA's numbers. That plane took off from...
merican, Swissair Discuss Deal - (FORT WORTH) -- Fort Worth-based American Airlines is talking with Swissair about a code-sharing agreement on flights between ...
nd although they, SAS, DO have a good safety<br>standard, they still do their mistakes.<br>Some 7-8 years ago, they forgot to deal with<br>another air safety ...
ikouka,<br><br>I am not trying to scare anyone about flying. I'm just trying to point out that comparing it favorably to driving with misleading statistics is...
n this horrible anniversary, that marks 6 months of severe pain and loss for this family and all the other 228 families, I just want to say that my daughter ...