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Missed Turn Preceded Nature Air Disaster

Cessna 208, Dec. 31, 2017, Punta Islita, Costa Rica—A witness reported that the second of two Nature Air Caravans departing the Islita Airport failed to make the right turn toward the only pass through the surrounding hills. Instead, the Caravan, which took off about 15 minutes after company traffic, maintained runway heading into a rising valley that ends in a blind canyon. All 10 passengers and both pilots were killed. Details of the pilots’ experience and familiarity with the terrain have yet to be disclosed.

Costa Rica’s Civil Aviation Administration suspended the operating certificate of Nature Air, which advertises itself as the country’s “largest domestic airline,” on January 11, but restored its authorization to fly on February 5. All of the passengers were U.S. citizens; both pilots were Costa Rican nationals.

First Legal Actions Filed in Mumbai King Air Accident

King Air C90B, June 28, 2018, Mumbai, India—The husband of copilot Marya Zuberi, one of five killed when the King Air crashed into a construction site on its first test flight following extensive renovations, has filed police complaints requesting investigations not only of the airplane’s operator and its maintenance provider, but also airport operator Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), the Airports Authority of India (AAI), and India’s Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA). Prabhat Kathuria’s filings allege that the operator pressured his wife, the pilot, and the two engineers killed in the accident to attempt the test flight despite unsuitable weather, and also fault the BMC for allowing incompatible high-rise development under

Article source: https://www.ainonline.com/aviation-news/business-aviation/2018-09-02/accidents-september-2018

WASHINGTON — It was designed to become the grande dame of aviation, an enormous modern plane that could seat 544 passengers — 853 if you squeezed people in — on two decks, replacing the venerable Boeing 747 with a new standard of luxury in flight.

Just 11 years later — almost a nanosecond in the life of a commercial airplane — two Airbus 380s can’t find a home and are about to be broken up and sold for parts.

The A380 may still be the future of aviation — Airbus makes that argument — or it may be the relic of an era from which aviation has spun forward with startling speed. But there is no question that the giant aircraft is hanging by a thread after it was first delivered in 2007 with fanfare that suggested it was the Next Great Thing.

Moreover, what happens to the largest commercial aircraft on Earth may reflect an evolution in air travel caused, to put it most simply, because smaller planes can fly longer distances.

If you live in a big city, which is pretty much any city that is home to two or more major professional sports franchises, it’s a safe bet you’re in a hub for at least one airline, and maybe several. Most of the rest of America is in a spoke city.

The hub system is one reason a flight from Boston to Denver might go through Chicago on United Airlines, Dallas on American Airlines, or Atlanta on Delta Air Lines.

The hub-and-spoke system isn’t going to evaporate from

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Despite the huge market potential, aircraft maintenance in Africa is still underdeveloped. Failure on the part of a few Maintenance Repair Organisations (MROs) to pool expertise and tools is costing Africa millions of dollars in capital flight. To reverse the trend, experts say there is need for operators and investors to adopt the right business model in the running of such facilities. KELVIN OSA OKUNBOR reports.

The global landscape for aircraft maintenance repair and overhaul (MRO) facilities has assumed dramatic dimension, as market size is projected to grow to over $52.6 billion in 10 years. Such growth, investigations reveal, is predicated on ambitious aircraft acquisition plans by global scheduled and charter airlines.

But, Africa may not optimise the huge potential in this market. Reason:  the continent is littered with carriers with small fleet size and aircraft repair facilities that may deny it the attendant economies of scale.

Investigations reveal that there are over 15 aircraft repair organisations carrying out both heavy and light aircraft maintenance checks in at least six airports in South Africa.

In Kenya, there are seven MROs in at least three airports, whereas there are six such companies in Morocco. But Nigeria has a few, including Aero Contractors Airlines, One-Dot Aviation, SkyJet Aviation and newly-registered 7 Star Global Hangar.

A directory put together by African Airlines Association lists nine internationally approved MROs on its database with seven of these owned by major carriers  on the continent carrying out base, component, line and engine checks and repairs out of 15 airports in Africa.

With a market estimated to be worth over $2.4 billion and still growing,

Article source: http://thenationonlineng.net/developing-maintenance-capability-for-aircraft-in-africa/

CIOs “have every right to be scared” as they face the challenge of responding to disruptive forces of unprecedented number and magnitude that are transforming enterprise IT, according to Dell EMC CTO John Roese.

Roese was speaking to Computerworld following his keynote speech at last week’s Dell Technologies Forum in Sydney. In that presentation Roese detailed what he said were six big ideas “that everybody in our industry will have to get comfortable with, because they will shape our IT architectures and drive the demand for those architectures going forward.”

The half dozen Roese referred to comprise three architectural ideas — multi-cloud, multi-tier and software-defined — and three demands on IT — IoT, artificial intelligence/machine learning and immersive experience (augmented and virtual reality).

Roese said CIOs, faced with these three big architectural ideas and three demands, were too focussed on the individual forces, and failing to realise their interrelatedness. 

“These are buzzwords today but we have to think beyond the buzzwords and realise that these are going to shape our infrastructure definitions and architectures and drive more demand than anything we have seen in our current generation,” he said.

Twenty years after Swissair Flight 111 killed 229 of us off the hover of Nova Scotia, the investigation into the lethal shatter continues to accept as true with a long lasting legacy on safety in the airline industry all the diagram in which thru the sector.Vic Gerden led the four.5-year, $57-million Transportation Security Board investigation into the worst aviation anguish ever in Canadian airspace to substantiate out and section collectively the thousands and thousands of fragments from the destroyed jetliner.“We recovered about 1,000,000 pieces, but about a of the pieces were so diminutive that it became a project to reassemble them well,” Gerden advised Global Files on the Twentieth anniversary of the shatter. “There are also a hundred sixty 5 miles of wire and a ways of those pieces were in diminutive pieces that were presumably a metre in length.“It became a project to construct it all collectively, but at the tip of the day, I imagine we ended up with a extremely thorough, just and a fully well-liked report.”WATCH: First responders replicate on Swissair Flight 111 tragedy

Investigators performed tests at labs in the U.S., Switzerland, Germany and Canada as section of the technical investigation into the shatter, which concerned reconstructing parts of the shattered airplane.“All of that takes a huge deal of time and in the middle of, we also attempted to search out out what … were the protection deficiencies that ended in this accident,” he mentioned.RCMP Sgt. Duane Cooper worked on the investigation and remembers the challenges in

Article source: https://newsline.com/2018/09/02/how-the-swissair-flight-111-tragedy-modified-airline-safety/

David and Penny Shaw are confident people. Meeting them for the first time, you sense that they are sure of themselves and that they are sure of what their aerospace design and manufacturing company, Flying S Inc., can do.

And what Flying S can do is impressive. It has designed, engineered and produced a variety of parts for prototype aircraft projects, including those for space projects and the defense industry. The firm’s ISO 9001 and AS9100 certifications attest to the shop’s prowess in this field.

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To be sure, there is no cockiness behind this self-confidence. The Shaws, a husband-and-wife team, make decisions based on experience, careful study and prudence. They do not take unnecessary chances.

This pattern is evident in the history of Flying S, which the Shaws founded in 2001 on their family farm in rural Illinois after

Article source: https://www.mmsonline.com/articles/managing-risk-is-this-shops-bold-strategy