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Bomb Threat
Made So Boss Could Catch Flight November 28, 2009 - On Tuesday A Sunny Isles Beach women, Claudia De La Rosa age 31 contacted |
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Rockwell Collins To Acquire Air Routing International November 27,
2009 - Rockwell Collins, Inc. (NYSE: COL) announced its intent to
acquire AR Group, Inc., and its affiliated companies including Air
Routing International, a premier provider of trip support services
for business aircraft flight operations. Terms of the agreement were
not disclosed. Air Routing has been providing flight departments
with trip planning services for more than 30 years. Recently, the
company extended its offering to give customers comprehensive online
access to its flight support tools. This offering provides customers
with a single-source, global solution for weather services, flight
planning services, fuel arrangements, international trip handling
and concierge services. The company has 240 employees and is
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DOT First
Ever Enforcement Against Airline For Stranding Passengers November 27, 2009 - DOT issued the first-ever enforcement orders against an airline for stranding passengers for an unreasonable amount of time. On August 7-8, 2009, Continental Flight 2816 was en route from |
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Gulfstream G650 Makes First Successful Flight November 27, 2009 - On Wednesday Gulfstream Aerospace, newest business jet and the flagship of its fleet, the ultra-large-cabin, ultra-long-range Gulfstream G650, successfully completed its first flight. Flown by experimental test pilot Jake Howard and senior experimental test pilot Tom Horne, the G650 took off from Savannah/Hilton Head International Airport at 1:41 p.m. local time today with flight engineer Bill Osborne on board. Because pilots were alerted to a slight vibration in a landing-gear door, they curtailed the testing regimen as a precautionary measure. The aircraft landed 12 minutes later. |
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Arrests In Scheme to Procure Anti Aircraft Missiles November 24,
2009 - A criminal complaint, unsealed, charged Dani Nemr Tarraf with
conspiring to acquire anti-aircraft missiles (FIM-92 Stingers) and
conspiring to possess machine guns (approximately 10,000 Colt M4
Carbines). In addition, Tarraf and other defendants—including Douri
Nemr Tarraf, Hassan Mohamad Komeiha, and Hussein Ali Asfour—were
charged with conspiring to transport stolen goods. Dani Nemr Tarraf
and Ali Fadel Yahfoufi were charged with conspiring to
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Japan Airlines Terror In The Sky November 24,
2009 - What would you do if you were a pilot who discovered that
another pilot was so sick that he posed a serious threat to the
safety of a flight? Let’s say you reported the sick pilot to the
company management, but they did not respond to you. Would you
persist in pursuing your cause at the risk of losing your job?
If that scenario seems overly dramatic consider the fact that
it happened and resulted in the death of an
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FAA Takes Aim At Icing With New Ice Protection Proposal November 24, 2009 - The Federal Aviation
Administration is proposing a rule requiring scheduled airlines to
either retrofit their existing fleet with ice-detection equipment or
make sure the ice protection system activates at the proper time.
For aircraft with an ice-detection system, the FAA proposes that the
system alert the crew each time they should activate the ice
protection system. The system would either turn on automatically or
pilots would manually activate it.
For aircraft
without ice-detection equipment, the crew
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Air France A380 Makes First Transatlantic Flight November 20, 2009, Friday morning, at 11:39 am, Air |
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FAA Proposes Restrictions On Companies Hiring FAA Inspectors November 20,
2009 - The FAA is proposing to put limits on airlines and other
operators hiring FAA safety inspectors and their managers for two
years after those employees leave the agency in a move to prevent
potential conflicts of interests that could affect aviation safety,
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Software Caused FAA Air Traffic Management To Be Offline November 20,
2009 - Early Thursday morning about 5 AM the FAA’s air traffic
management services, including flight plan processing was down due
to a software configuration problems that affected their routers.
The failure was attributed to a software configuration problem
within the FAA Telecommunications Infrastructure (FTI) in |
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DOT Calls For Greater Oversight At Aircraft Repair Stations
November 19, 2009
- The Inspector General testified on the Federal Aviation
Administration’s (FAA’s) oversight of repair stations. It was noted
that air carriers’ use of repair stations has risen dramatically in
the last several years. Both in the volume and type of repairs
outsourced. The Office of Inspector General (OIG) reported since
2003 that FAA’s oversight of aircraft repair facilities is not
robust enough to ensure that outsourced repairs meet FAA standards.
Specifically,
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AirTran Will Begin Advertising On The Back Of Each Seat November 19, 2009 - AirTran
Airways reports the company will place advertisement on the back of
each seat in all of its 138 Boeing jets. During the next two weeks,
each seat will be outfitted with a 2 and 1/2 X 9 inch,
easily-changeable, full-color, advertisement screen. "We are pleased
to be able to offer exclusive deals and other promotions to our
customers through this unique medium," said Tad Hutcheson, AirTran
Airways' vice president of marketing and sales. "We have gone to
great lengths to present these advertisements in a tasteful,
unobtrusive way that we believe customers will enjoy." This new
advertising forum will increase ancillary revenue for the company
and joins existing onboard advertising, including: GO, AirTran's
award-winning in-flight magazine,
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Airbus Develops $5.3 Billion Out Of Dubai Air Show
November 19, 2009 - As an active participant
in the 2009 Dubai Air Show, Airbus aircraft manufacturer announced
commitments across its broad product range covering a total of 33
aircraft, valued at over US$5.3 billion. These commitments include
firm orders for 15 aircraft worth more than US$3.6 billion, plus
memorandum of understanding (MoU) agreements for a further 18
aircraft totaling around $1.7 billion. The highlights of the show
included firm orders for Airbus’ newest
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AgustaWestland Awarded Navy Helicopter Contract
November 19, 2009
- AgustaWestland, announce that its North America unit (AWNA) was
awarded a $17.35 million U.S. Navy contract to provide depot level
maintenance on three Egyptian Mk-2 variant H-3 helicopters. The
contract provides full funding for this effort, which began in
November 2008, and calls for complete refurbishment of the aircraft
structure and all aircraft components. AWNA will also complete all
safety checks to ensure the aircraft are flight ready. Work will be
carried out at the company’s 88,000 ft2 maintenance repair and
overhaul facility in
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Black Hawk Helicopter Fleet Surpasses 1 Million Flight Hours
November 18, 2009
- Sikorsky Black Hawk helicopters flown by the U.S. Army in the |
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Air Algerie Announce Order for Seven Boeing 737-800s
November 18, 2009
- Boeing (NYSE: BA) and Air Algérie the national flag carrier
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NTSB
Recommends The Grounding Of Zodiac CH-601XL November 17, 2009 - Back in April 2009, the NTSB called on the FAA to ground the Zodiac CH-601XL after the Safety Board linked six accidents involving that aircraft model to aerodynamic flutter, a phenomenon in which the control surfaces and wings of the airplane can suddenly oscillate and lead to catastrophic structural failure. Those accidents killed a total of ten people. Preliminary investigation of the November 6 accident in |
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Comlux Purchases Third Challenger 605 Jet
November 15, 2009
- Bombardier announced that Comlux Management AG signed a firm order
for a Challenger 605 jet. Fly Comlux, the VIP charter division of
Comlux, currently operates a modern fleet featuring a total of
eleven Bombardier business aircraft – including three Challenger
605, two Challenger 850, two Global 5000, two Global Express and two
Global Express XRS jets. |
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British Airways And Iberia Airlines Agree On Merger
November 14,
2009, British Airways and Iberia’s boards have agreed on Thursday to
a binding memorandum of understanding (MoU) setting out the basis
for a proposed merger of the two companies to create a new, leading
European airline group that recognizes the principle of parity at
board and management level. |
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Three Perish In Mountain Lifeflight Helicopter Crash
November 14,
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Airbus A330 Is First Airliner Certified For ETOPS November 14,
2009, The European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) has approved all
Airbus A330 models for ETOPS (Extended-Range Operations for two-engined
aircraft) "beyond 180 minutes." This award makes the A330 the first
aircraft type to receive such approval, either from EASA or the FAA.
The new capability will be available as a customer-selectable option
which extends the diversion distance potentially up to 1,700 nm.
This distance corresponds to a
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Boeing First 747-8 Freighter Leaves Factory
November 13,
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