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PeopleUsa: carriers to justify their own delays
Washington, Usa - The new rule will be operative in the next six months
According to the figures at American civil aviation's disposal a flight on four is hit by a delay at least of 15 minutes, an intolerable situation for the million passengers who use the aerial service... more
Latest newsUS pilots downed in Iranian territory: it's told about an agreement between the two countries
Washington, Usa - The decision in view of a war against Iraq
The discussion on the issue lasts approximately two months but no official document has circulated in purpose. The well informed assure that an agreement exists, however, in an informal level between... more
AerospaceSpace meeting between the crews of Endeavour and Iss
Washington, Usa - Exchange of greetings between the two groups
Meeting among the stars between the crew of Endeavour and that one of Iss, International Space Station. During it, has boarded on the orbiting station the new group of three astronauts that will substitute... more
IndustryRussia likes more Airbus than Boeing
Moscow, Russia - US disappointed to this new sudden choice
The indebtedness of the Russian carrier flagship Aeroflot would not allow the purchase of aircraft Boeing as it had been planned. The choice of the carrier has fallen on the more economic Airbus aircraft... more
HelicoptersGreece to buy 12 helicopters from Boeing and 40 from NH industries
Athens, Greece - The decision has been voted yesterday by the parliament
It has been ratified by the Greek parliament the will of Athens' government to reinforce its own aerial defense with the massive purchase of helicopters from the American Boeing and the European consortium NHI.... more
Finance and economyAir Canada will be delisted by Nasdaq
New York, Usa - The delisting will be operative by the next December 3rd
Starting from the next December 3rd Air Canada will be delisted by Nasdaq of Wall Street. The decision has been taken because the shares of the Canadian carrier do not guarantee enough incomes to its shareholders,... more
AirlinesThe whole Varig's management resigns
San Paolo, Brazil - The resigns have been presented to protest against the property
The whole management of the Brazilian carrier Varig, included the president, has resigned itself to protest against the property that has refused a restoration plan that previewed the solving of 118 of... more
Civil aviationReady a new breed of dogs to be used in antiterrorism services
Moscow, Russia - The new will be used to smell explosives
Through the Turkemenistan's jackal and the Siberian laika, Russian scientists have reached a crossing following which has been created a new dog breed able to smell very powerful explosives included the... more
AirlinesAir Sahara buys twelwe new airplanes
New Delhi, India - The contract has a value of USD 200m
The Indian air carrier Air Sahara will buy within January 2004 12 new 50-seated Bombardier aircraft for a value of nearly USD 200m. Together with this contract the carrier will lease starting from January... more
Civil aviationApproved the new superagency against terrorism
Washington, Usa - Tom Ridge named as president
It has definitively approved, with the signature of the President of the Usa George W. Bush the creation of the antiterrorism superagency. At the presidence of the new agency has been named Tom Ridge,... more
Civil aviationBig antiterrorism exercitation in Athens
Athens, Greece - The exercitation had as final aim the security of the next Olympic Games
In preview of the next Olympic Games programmed in the Greek town for the year 2004, in it has been made a big antiterrorism exercitation that involved nearly 1800 persons for three days between the harbour... more
PeopleAir traffic controller's strike paralyzes French airport
Paris, France - Main carriers to delay their flights
Lufthansa has had to cancel 70 flights, the British Airways 64, Alitalia 68 while the Scandinavian Airlines has been forced to delete 27 connections. This is the situation for today in France because... more
Civil aviationFAA AD on MT-Propeller Entwicklung GMBH models MTV-9-B-C and MTV-3-B-C propellers
Washington, USA - To prevent blade root lag screw failure, which could result in propeller blade separation and loss of control of the airplane
Airworthiness Directives Header Information DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION Federal Aviation Administration 14 CFR Part 39 [Docket No. 99-NE-35-AD; Amendment 39-12953; AD 2002-23-09] RIN... more
IndustryBoeing to drop the "Sonic cruiser" plan
Washington, Usa - Carriers are not disposable to invest
There has still not been an official declaration but it seems Boeing has the will to set aside the program of the supersonic plane. Surely it influences the unfavorable economic conjuncture at world-wide... more
IndustryMcDonnell Douglas awarded of a over 12 USDm contract
USA
McDonnell Douglas Corp., St. Louis is being awarded a $12,412,400 modification to a previously awarded cost-plus-fixed-fee contract (N00421-02-C-3236) to exercise an option for engineering, maintenance... more
IndustrySymetrics Industries awarded of a over 34 USDm contract
USA
Symetrics Industries*, Melbourne, Fla., is being awarded a ceiling-priced $34,482,060 firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery and indefinite-quantity contract for the procurement of four first article and... more
IndustryRaytheon Aircraft awarded of a near 170 USDm contract
USA
Raytheon Aircraft Co., Wichita, Kan., is being awarded a $169,987,608 firm-fixed-price contract to provide for Lot X option exercise; Joint Primary Aircraft Trainer System T-6A Production Aircraft Lot... more
IndustryDassault previews a loss in production rates
Paris, France - The prevision is valid for the next year
The French industry Dassault Aviation previews for the next year a loss of the orders after the positive year 2002 when the French Defense Minister has requested more times military aircraft. The industry... more
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