Civil aviation
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Civil aviationEMERGENCY FAA AD on Eurocopter helicopters
EMERGENCY AIRWORTHINESS DIRECTIVE Aircraft Certification Service Washington, DC U.S. Department of Transportation Federal Aviation Administration DATE: February 6, 2002 Send to all U.S. owners... more

Civil aviationWinter Games, all OK
Salt Lake City, Usa - Security measures studied to prevent any terroristic action
According to the opinions of security forces representatives, Salt Lake City is ready to host Olympic winter Games. Fbi manager Robert Mueller declared that all the possible scenarios have been taken... more

Civil aviationTerrorism alarm in Colorado
Panic aboard a Boeing 737
Bomb alert on the Delta Airlines flight from Denver to Salt Lake City after a letter menacing explosive to be aboard has been found. Fortunately, once landed, no bomb has been found on the aircraf... more

Civil aviationFAA Ad on Eurocopter France helicopters
Airworthiness Directive 2002-01-30 Summary Subject: Prevent failure of the main gearbox (MGB) due to a cracked bevel gear Manufacturer: Eurocopter France Category: Airframe Effective Date:... more

Civil aviationFAA Ad on Bombardier aircraft
AIRWORTHINESS DIRECTIVE Aircraft Certification Service Washington,DC U.S. Department of Transportation Federal... more

Civil aviationFAA Ad on Dowty propellers
AIRWORTHINESS DIRECTIVE Aircraft Certification Service Washington, DC U.S. Department of Transportation Federal Aviation Administration The following Airworthiness Directive issued by... more

Civil aviationFAA Ad on Short Brothers aircraft
AIRWORTHINESS DIRECTIVE Aircraft Certification Service Washington, DC U.S. Department of Transportation Federal Aviation Administration The following Airworthiness Directive issued by the... more

Civil aviationFAA Ad on Israel Aircraft Industry planes
AIRWORTHINESS DIRECTIVE Aircraft Certification Service Washington, DC U.S. Department of Transportation Federal Aviation Administration The following Airworthiness Directive issued by the... more

Civil aviationFAA AD on Rolls Royce engines
AIRWORTHINESS DIRECTIVE Aircraft Certification Service Washington, DC U.S. Department of Transportation Federal Aviation Administration The following Airworthiness Directive issued by the... more

Civil aviation11th September terrorist attacks partly planned in Malaysia
FBI director confirmed at the Washington Post
Al Quaida's September 11th attacks could have been partly planned in Malaysia, this is what FBI director, Robert Mueller, confirms on Washington Post columns. In fact, Yazid Sufaat, a Malaysian ex army... more

Civil aviationSeptember 11th attacks could have been anticipated
An Fbi terrorist arrest pushed Al Quaida to speed up its evil plans
According to Msnbc site tragic events of last September have been anticipated in order to elude Fbi investigations. This is what some secret documents, found in Afghanistan training camps, would state. On... more

Civil aviationFAA Ad on Bombardier aircraft
AIRWORTHINESS DIRECTIVE Aircraft Certification Service Washington, DC U.S.Department of Transportation... more

Civil aviationFAA Ad on General Electric Engines
AIRWORTHINESS DIRECTIVE Aircraft Certification Service Washington, DC U.S. Department of Transportation Federal Aviation... more

Civil aviationExplosive at San Francisco Airport
United Airlines terminal evacuated
Terrorist alarm at San Francisco airport as explosive traces have been found in the United Airlines terminal yesterday morning. At 7.15am west coast time, security agents found explosive in a passenger's... more

Civil aviationFAA ad on Boeing 767 aircrafts
AIRWORTHINESS DIRECTIVE Aircraft Certification Service Washington,DC U.S. Department of Transportation Federal Aviation Administration The following Airworthiness Directive issued... more

Civil aviationFAA ad on Raytheon Aircrafts plane
AIRWORTHINESS DIRECTIVE Aircraft Certification Service Washington, DC U.S. Department of Transportation Federal Aviation Administration The following Airworthiness Directive issued by the Federal... more

Civil aviationPassenger with a revolver boards at Tel Aviv
Man declared he was unaware of the weapon
An israeli passenger inexplicably boarded a plane bound to New York with a gun in his luggage. The event happened at Ben Gurion airport. The passenger asserts he was unaware of the weapon. It is not... more

Civil aviationAccording to flight assistant association some airlines allow no sufficient time to perform controls on board
Flight attendants at a number of airlines are issuing a security alert for air carriers that are requiring flight attendants to conduct new exhaustive security searches in addition to current pre-flight... more

Civil aviationAlarm for a suspected bomb on a KLM flight
Four hours of controls at Boston-Logan airport
An intercontinental KLM flight bound to Amsterdam has been stopped at Boston by an anonymous man , informing via phone that on board there was a bomb. Indeed, the flight number reported via phone belonged... more

Civil aviationA NEW ANTI- HIJACKING SYSTEM
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, Silicon Valley, the hearth of US electronic industry, could become the birthplace of a new anti-hijacking system. The device would be a silent alarm, not audible by the hijackers,... more

Civil aviationFAA AD ON MD HELICOPTERS MD-900 SERIES
USA, AIRWORTHINESS DIRECTIVE Aircraft Certification Service Washington, DC U.S. Department... more

Civil aviationFAA AD BELL 430HELICOPTERS
USA, AIRWORTHINESS DIRECTIVE Aircraft Certification Service Washington, DC U.S. Department... more

Civil aviationFAA AD GENERAL ELECTRIC ENGINES
USA, AIRWORTHINESS DIRECTIVE Aircraft Certification Service Washington, DC U.S. Department... more

Civil aviationFAA AD ON BOEING 737 AIRCRAFTS
USA, Aircraft Certification Service Washington, DC U.S. Department of Transportation Federal Aviation Administration The following Airworthiness Directive issued by the Federal Aviation... more

Civil aviationFAA AD ON ISRAEL AIR INDUSTRY AIRCRAFTS
USA, AIRWORTHINESS DIRECTIVE Aircraft Certification Service Washington, DC U.S. Department of Transportation... more

Civil aviationFAA AD ON EUROCOPTER HELICOPTERS
USA, AIRWORTHINESS DIRECTIVE Aircraft Certification Service Washington, DC U.S. Department... more

Civil aviationEMBARRASSING SITUATION AT NEWARK AIRPORT
NEW YORK, The Israeli daily newspaper Maariv has unveiled that an embarrassing diplomatic incident has been badly avoided at Newark airport, concerning the past prime minister of Israel. The station security... more

Civil aviationX-RAY INSUFFICIENT AGAINST EXPLOSIVE MATERIAL
UNITED STATES, Waiting the new x-ray machines, able to discover explosive material in all american airports, within December 2002, USA authorities decided to employ more dogs' smelling. The number of findings... more

Civil aviationX-RAY INSUFFICIENT AGAINST EXPLOSIVE MATERIAL
UNITED STATES, From a linked Franch-American investigation, the obsolete x-ray machines and metal detectors (thought to discover only fire and knife arms) have been estimated by authorities inadequate... more

Civil aviationFAA AD ON PILATUS AIRCRAFTS
USA, AIRWORTHINESS DIRECTIVE Aircraft Certification Service Washington, DC U.S. Department... more

Civil aviationFAA EMERGENCY AD (2) FOR EUROCOPTER HELICOPTERS
USA, EMERGENCY AIRWORTHINESS DIRECTIVE Aircraft Certification Service Washington, DC... more

Civil aviationEMERGENCY FAA AD ON EUROCOPTER HELICOPTERS
USA, EMERGENCY AIRWORTHINESS DIRECTIVE Aircraft Certification Service Washington, DC... more

Civil aviationFAA AD ON ROLLS-ROYCE TRENTENGINES
USA, AIRWORTHINESS DIRECTIVE Aircraft Certification Service Washington, DC... more

Civil aviationFAA EMERGENCY PA FOR EUROCOPTER EC-155 HELICOPTERS
USA, EMERGENCY AIRWORTHINESS DIRECTIVE Aircraft Certification Service Washington, DC U.S. Department of Transportation... more

Civil aviationEMERGENCY FAA AD ON EC-135 EUROCOPTER HELICOPTERS
USA, EMERGENCY AIRWORTHINESS DIRECTIVE Aircraft Certification Service Washington, DC U.S. Department of Transportation Federal Aviation Administration DATE: December 19, 2001 2001-26-52... more

Civil aviationEMERGENCY FAA AD ON BOMBARDIER AIRCRAFTS
USA, EMERGENCY AIRWORTHINESS DIRECTIVE Aircraft Certification Service Washington, DC U.S. Department of Transportation... more

Civil aviationINTENSIFIED CONTROLS FOUND WORKERS WITH ''DIRTY'' CRIMINAL REPORTS
S. FRANCISCO, USA, Following the Federal Aviation Administration requested intensified controls on airport workers, 29 employees of S. Francisco airport have been found with "dirty" criminal record and... more

Civil aviationUNITED AIRLINES FOUNDS CRACK IN A320 TAIL
WASHINGTON, USA, According to declarations of a U.S. carrier United Airlines spokesman, the airline technicians have found a small crack in the tail of an Airbus A320 aircraft. A subsequent inspection... more

Civil aviationBUSH NOMINATES CHIEF OF AVIATION SECURITY
WASHINGTON, US President Bush has nominated John Magaw undersecretary of Transportation security, with responsibility for overseeing the new federal security force for airports, buses, railroads, bridges... more

Civil aviationFAA AD ON FOKKER F-28 AIRCRAFTS
USA, AIRWORTHINESS DIRECTIVE Aircraft Certification Service Washington, DC U.S. Department of Transportation Federal Aviation Administration The following Airworthiness Directive... more

Civil aviationFAA EMERGENCY AD ON MD900 HELICOPTERS
USA, EMERGENCY AIRWORTHINESS DIRECTIVE Aircraft Certification Service Washington, DC U.S. Department of Transportation Federal Aviation Administration DATE: December 7, 2001... more

Civil aviationFAA CALLED TO INVESTIGATE DELTA MD90 TYRE BURST
USA, Federal Aviation Administration has been called in to investigate a series of nine burst tire incidents in three years occurred to Delta MD-90 aircrafts at California's John Wayne Airport. FAA... more

Civil aviationFAA AD ON BOMBARDIER AIRCRAFTS
USA, AIRWORTHINESS DIRECTIVE Aircraft Certification Service Washington, DC U.S. Department of Transportation Federal Aviation Administration The following Airworthiness Directive issued... more

Civil aviationFAA EMERGENCY AD ON MD-600N HELICOPTERS
USA, EMERGENCY AIRWORTHINESS DIRECTIVE Aircraft Certification Service Washington, DC U.S. Department of Transportation Federal... more

Civil aviationFAA EMERGENCY AD ON AIRBUS A-300
USA, EMERGENCY AIRWORTHINESS DIRECTIVE Aircraft Certification Service Washington, DC... more

Civil aviationACCORDING TO FAA AIRBUS CRASHED ON NEW YORK COULD HAVE STRUCTURAL PROBLEMS
USA, Also in NTSB has not yet conculded its investigations, seems that on the Airbus A-300 B4-605R crashed on New York on last Nov. 12 could be affected by structural probelms. The verical stabilizer is... more

Civil aviationFAA EMERGENCY AD ON AIRBUS AIRCRAFTS
USA, EMERGENCY AIRWORTHINESS DIRECTIVE Aircraft Certification Service Washington, DC... more

Civil aviationFAA TO ORDER INSPECTION OF AIRBUS A300 AIRCRAFT
WASHINGTON, The Federal Aviation Administration is to order an inspection of all the Airbus A300 aircraft operated by US airlines. About 34 of the 90 Airbus included in the checks are flown by American... more

Civil aviationUNITED AIRLINES TO PUT STUN GUNS IN COCKPITS
CHICAGO, United Airlines announced that it will be the first US major airline to give stun guns, manufactured by american company Taser, to its pilots in order to tighten security on its flights. The installations... more

Civil aviationFAA AD ON ROLLS-ROYCE ENGINES
USA, AIRWORTHINESS DIRECTIVE Aircraft Certification Service Washington, DC... more