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Science and technologyBisignani answers to the critics about Malpensa airport
Milan, Italy - "We have choosen Paris for the best relation between quality and production"
The managing director of Iata, Giovanni Bisignani, answering to the critics about Malpensa declares: "To begin I have to say that these are company's strategies in which Iata does not make an intervention,... more
DefenseUn inspectors arrived in Iraq
Baghdad, Iraq - Eventually they could reach up to 100 units
It's landed few minutes ago at Baghdad's airport the UN flight with to 18 inspectors who since Wednesday will begin their delicate mission according to resolution 1441 of the United Nations. The assignment,... more
HelicoptersTo begin the next year the construction of the second prototype of a new Mi-28N
Rostov-na-Donu, Russia - The program should last three-five years
The project of construction of the new model Mi-28M (mitic attack helicopter of the former Red Army), financed entirely by the Rostvertol, will begin officially the next winter and will last not more... more
AirlinesQantas acquires part of Air New Zealand
Wellington, New Zealand - The agreement after one year of negotiation
It has been issued today, a combined official notice of the two airlines, the news of the acquisition by part of the Qantas of the 22,5% of the Air New Zealand. The transaction, that has been carried... more
Science and technologyIn Scotland perhaps it will close the only airport on the beach
London, Great Britain - "It costs too much to maintain it"
In Great Britain they are talking about the possible definitive stop of an airport unique in the world that has a runway directly on the beach. The airport is on the Barra island, in Scotland and the runway... more
Science and technologyFormigoni asks the restoration of the flights Malpensa-Peking
Milan, Italy - "Our traders must be protected"
The president of Regione Lombardia, Roberto Formigoni, asks to the direction of Malpensa airport the immediate restoration of the direct flights to Peking cancelled some months ago. The Lombard politician... more
HelicoptersJapan will armed its chopters in Arabian Sea
Tokyo, Japan - They'll support US and British warships patrolling the area
They will be equipped with 7.6 mm machine guns the helicopters that the Agency of Japanese Defense has decided to give as logistic support to the Anglo-American troops patrolling the Arabian Sea. The... more
IndustryBoeing 767 new series goes to direct production
Washington, Usa - The project goes from the transition to the operative phase
Following the words of the vice president of the production line of Boeing 767, the new series of these aircraft will go in a short time from the transitional phase to the direct production. John Quinlan... more
PeopleStolen to an Ukrainian pilot the flight sheets for Kabul
Rome, Italy - They were in a suitcase
In a hotel of the beachside near Rome it has been stolen in the last days to an Ukrainian pilot a suitcase containing a personal computer. The curiosity of the robbery is the fact that in the bag were... more
Science and technologyMarseille's airport reopened
Marseille, France - The truck driver's block ended
The direction of Marseille airport, called by phone by AVIONEWS, has declared that in this moment the airport has come back to work regularly. (0025) more
Science and technologyAvoided the strike at seven English airports
London, UK - Baa offers a generous increase
It's still high the tension in the English civil aviation, but for now the strike that Thursday would have paralyzed the air traffic, stopping 7 airports, has been averted. The protest has been in fact... more
Science and technologyBlocked Marseille's airport
Marseille, France - French truck drivers block the airport
In the field of the protests of th French truck drivers associated to the two major trade unions of their working category Marseille's airport has been blocked. The reason for this block is the denied... more
IndustryRaytheon signs a contract with Boeing
Saint Louis, Usa - The approval has arrived in the last days
Raytheon signs a contract with the Boeing company for the supply of a radar called APG-79 Active Electronical Scanned Array (AESA) that will integrate the electronic systems provided on board of the new... more
Science and technologyDouble incidents grazed at the Zurich airport
Geneva, Switzerland - To be investigated about the vicissitude
It has been Skyguide, the Helvetic society that manages the air traffic control to give the embarrassing news that, on the yesterday morning, a double incident has been grazed at the international airport... more
AccidentsCrashed a helicopter of a salvage team: six are the major injured
Johannesburg, South Africa - The mission to collect the material of a stranded Italian ship
They are all wounded but miraculously secured 15 occupants of a Puma helicopter in rescue mission. In truth the mission was planned in order to recover the material from the Italian ship Jolly Rubino,... more
Civil aviationFAA Emergency AD on Boeing model 747 airplanes
Washington, USA - To require the flightcrew to maintain certain minimum fuel levels in the center fuel tanks, and to prohibit the use of the horizontal stabilizer fuel tank
Airworthiness Directives Header Information DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION Federal Aviation Administration 14 CFR Part 39 Docket No. 2002-NM-314-AD; AD 2002-24-52 Boeing Model 747-400, -400D,... more
Civil aviationFAA Emergency AD on Boeing models 737-747-757 airplanes
USA - To require the flightcrew to maintain certain minimum fuel levels in the center fuel tanks, and to prohibit the use of the horizontal stabilizer fuel tank (model 747-400 series airplanes) and certain center auxiliary fuel tanks (on model 747)
Airworthiness Directives Header Information DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION Federal Aviation Administration 14 CFR Part 39 Docket No. 2002-NM-309-AD; AD 2002-24-51 Boeing Model 737-600, -700,... more
AirlinesLebanese pilots agree to a wage's reducement
Beirut, Lebanon - Small carriers more and more in bad conditions
The airlines of all the world are still facing huge losses and, according to authoritative opinions, there's no way out at least in the short period. In the West thousands of lay-offs have been thought... more
IndustryRaytheon Systems awarded of a over 9 USDm contract
USA
Raytheon Systems Co., El Segundo, Calif., is being awarded a $9,278,260 firm-fixed-price supply contract with two priced out year options modification to provide for forty antenna array applicable to the... more
IndustryBoeing names a new president for the Chinese division
Chicago, Usa - The appointment has been decided in the 30th anniversary of activity in China
David Wang has been named in the last days president of the Chinese division of Boeing industry, the giant of aeronautical and aerospace industry that has customers among the carriers of 145 countries... more
DefenseAnother attack of the allies against an Iraqi communication facility
Baghdad, Iraq - Anglo-American raids pass by one after the other
Jet fighters of the Anglo-American coalition has bombed, today, a center of military communications. The attack has begun after that an Iraqi jet fighter had trespassed on in the zone of interdiction... more
AccidentsCollision risk at Forth Worth airport, in Usa
Dallas, Usa - The AA plane stopped just 1220 m from two trucks
It could have disastrous consequences the incident that on Thursday has happened to 2421 flight of the American Airlines while it was taking off from the international airport of Forth Worth in Dallas.... more
AccidentsCrash in Verona: asked the confirmation of the sentences
Verona, Italy -The crash, in 1995, involved a Roumanian aircraft
Seven years after the crash that caused the death of 49 persons boarded on Banat-Air's, crashed in Verona after only 49 seconds from the landing, the General Prosecutor of the Supreme Court of the venetian... more
AirlinesSas will set internet for its long flight routes
Copenhagen, Denmark - The service will be offered by Boeing
Sas has announced on Thursday that Boeing will set on 11 of its aircraft the equipment for the Internet service that already has been mounted on the airplane of Lufthansa, British Airways and Japan Airlines.... more
HelicoptersIt will last two years the Mi-2A update program
Rostov-na-Donu, Russia - Many investors are interested in the project
The updating plan of the Mi-2A helicopter will begin as possible and it will last for a esteemed period of two years. The most important modification that will be made, and that has attracted the interest... more
AerospaceShuttle ready to leave, but weather forecasts are not much good
Cape Canaveral, USA - It's expected for this night the possible launch
If the meteorological conditions can be considered satisfactory in Florida, from where the Shuttle will blast off, the same cannot be said for Spain. Indeed the base for an eventual emergency landing... more
AccidentsPowerful blast devastes airport in Nigeria: air traffic paralized
Lagos, Nigeria - Still unknown the number of victims
Probably a fatality that one that has caused, at 14,30 (GMT) yesterday, the outbreak at the airport of Lagos, Nigeria's capital and the greatest city of whole Africa. Damages for millions of dollars and... more
IndustryNorthrop reduces the previsions about the incomes for the year 2002
Washington, Usa - The cause is the acquisition of TRW
Northrop industry, in spite of the really positive news coming from the market, reduces of an half point by share the income of the shareholders. The reduction, following society's official sources, is... more
Science and technologyRosen in Australian airports the terrorism alarm
Canberra, Australia - The alarm has been launched in the last days by the government
The federal government of Australia has launched the alarm about possible terrorist attack in the federation caused by Al-Qaeda. The rising of the alarm level is due to principal reasons: the first is... more
DefensePentagon still hesitant about the V-22 "Osprey" purchase
Washington, Usa - The final decision just after the test overcoming
Chief Pentagon weapons buyer Edward Aldridge has still not expressed a definitive judgment about the purchase of the V-22 Osprey produced by Boeing with Bell. In fact the negative tests of the last years... more
HelicoptersFerrara: forced landing for Usaf helicopters
Ferrara, Italy - The cause is the bad weather conditions
Four VH 60 helicopters belonging to Usaf that took off from Aviano and had to land in Florence, have been obliged to land in Ferrara airport for the adverse weather conditions. When it has been possible... more
AccidentsAttempted hijacking on Air France flight (3): spokesman in Rome denies the event too
Paris, France - According to the carrier "everything was just normal"
The spokesman of Air France in Italy has confirmed what has circulated officially from the French airline about the presumed diversion on flight AF345 of the Air France in connection from Montreal to... more
IndustryA-400M: Germany to reduce its order of 13 planes
Berlin, Germany - Antonov to be taken to cover the leak
The German financial crisis, admonished in these days also by the European Union, would not allow the maintenance of the official order of 73 A-400M planes. About this issue AVIONEWS had already dealt... more
DefensePrague summit: Kazakhistan minister plane escorted by US fighters
Prague, Czech Republic - A favourable vote is expected for today
Very strict, as already it had been announced, the patrolling on Prague's sky in the days of the summit. Therefore it can also happen that a diplomatic flight as that one of the Kazakhistan minister... more
IndustryHoneywell International awarded of a over 24 USDm contract
USA
Honeywell International Inc., Tempe, Ariz., was awarded a $24,646,373 firm-fixed-price contract for upgrade, overhaul, and re-capitalization of 60 T55-L-712 engines applicable to the CH-47 Chinook Helicopters... more
IndustryVeridian Engineering awarded of a over 23 USDm contract
USA
Veridian Engineering, Inc., Buffalo, N.Y., is being awarded an estimated $23,266,220 indefinite-delivery and indefinite-quantity, cost-plus-fixed-fee, multiple award delivery order contract for technical... more
AccidentsAttempted hijacking on Air France flight (2): the carrier denies the event
Paris, France - "There was no hijack"
It's arrived timely and resolute the refutation of the Air France about the declaration of the minister of French transport who this morning had announced a diversion, then failed, of a Air France flight,... more
IndustryNorthrop Grumman awarded of a over 6 USDm contract
USA
Northrop Grumman Corp., Melbourne, Fla., is being awarded $6,371,200 fixed-price-incentive-firm contract to procure satellite communications equipment for the Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System... more
IndustryBoeing Satellite Systems awarded of a 150 USDm contract
USA
Boeing Satellite Systems, Los Angeles is being awarded a $150,000,000 firm-fixed-price contract modification to provide for 12-space segment options item (E) Satellite 3 production for the Wideband Gapfiller... more
AirlinesUnited's crack could weaken the Star Alliance
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - Managers of the most important carriers met yesterday
The consideration that the crisis of the United Airlines can cause "dangerous leaks" to the same alliance to which it belongs, the "Star Alliance", is one worry felt by all the managers of the the member... more
AccidentsAttempted hijacking on Air France flight
Paris, France - Just fright for the passengers
Probably he has been a man of Moroccan origin to try the hijack, the last night, of an Air France flight from Montreal to Paris. The man would have threatened to blow up the airplane but once landed at... more
AccidentsAn Efa prototype crashes (2): it was a Typhoon DA6
Belvis de la Jara, Spain - A damage to the engines the possible cause
Spain has lost its prototype of the combat European aircraft Eurofighter in the crash happened 110 kilometers far from Madrid. The two pilots, Ignacio Lombo and Eduardo Cuadrado, after having without... more
Press releaseAgustaWestland Merlin helicopters (2): the technical sheet
Yeovil, England - HM MK1 and HC MK3
"Merlin HM Mk1 The Merlin HM Mk 1 is a replacement for the anti-submarine Sea King HAS Mk6. It is the first Royal Naval derivative of the EH101 helicopter, which is designed and produced by AgustaWestland.... more
Press releaseAgustaWestland commemorates final delivery and completion of Merlin helicopters
Yeovil, England - For UK Ministry of Defence
"In a VIP ceremony held at AgustaWestland’s UK facility on November 19, an important milestone was achieved with the delivery of the last of 22 EH101 Merlin HC Mk3 helicopters for the Royal Air Force a... more
AccidentsThe Spanish prototype of the Efa crashes
Belvis de la jara, Spain - Unhurted the two pilots
It is happened today in the southern of Spain during a test flight. The two pilots - commander Ignacio Lombo and the lieutenant colonel Eduardo Cuadrato - were able to eject before the Efa crashing.... more
HelicoptersGreece to buy 30 NH-90 and 12 Apache for an investment worth in EUR 1.5bn
Athens, Greece - The news should be given on the next week
The government of Athens doesn't want to lose time to strengthen its aerial defense, because also of the Olympic Games that will be take place just in the "City of Gods". Therefore if the purchase of the... more
AerospaceBoeing Delta IV has finally blasted off
Cape Canaveral, USA - It will bring in orbit an European telecommunication satellite
It has been launched this morning the powerful Boeing Delta IV rocket that will put in orbit the European satellite Eutelsat, developed by the greatest telecommunication companies such as Bt, Deutsche... more
IndustryBoeing will dismiss 5000 employees during next year
Washington, Usa - The new job cuts will add to the 30.000 already programmed for this year
Boeing will dismiss 5000 that will add to the 30000 already announced for this year. The new dismissals are programmed for year 2003. A spokesman of the industry says: "This 5000 new dismissals announced... more
AirlinesKLM will inaugurate new instrumentation for Boeing 777s
Seattle, Usa - The Dutch carrier has received the task in the last days
The Dutch carrier KLM has received by the Crew Informations Services of Boeing Commercial Aviation Services to install as first customer the new Electronic Flight Bag on board of its fleet of Boeing 777,... more
DefenseNato's General Secretary rebukes Bosnian government
Sarajevo, Bosnia - "You need reforms to enter in the Partnership"
After the recent scandal of the violation of the embargo to Iraq made from a Serbian-Bosnian firm, Nato's General Secretary Lord George Robertson has sent a rebuke to Bosnian government. Lord Robertson... more