Model Airplanes

A line of ride-on toys modeled after old-style airplanes are being recalled this week because parts can detach, posing a choking hazard to young children. Other recalled consumer products include faulty child bicycle trailers and fire alarms.

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RIDE-ON-TOYS

DETAILS: Peanuts Flying Ace ride-on toys modeled after old-style airplanes and sold at Target stores from July through August 2015. The toys are intended for children ages 12 months to 2 years. The body of the plane is red, the steering wheel, propeller and wings are yellow and the hubcaps are blue. “Snoopy Flying Ace” is printed on the front of the toy airplane and Snoopy characters are printed on each wing and on the front. A hang tag attached to the product at purchase has “#38126” printed on it and one of the following date codes: BCHTAR616A13-0515, BCHTAR614A13-0515, BCHTAR615A11-0515, BCHTAR684A20-0515, BCHTAR682A05-0615, or BCHTAR683A05-0615.

WHY: The toy’s blue hubcaps can detach from the wheel’s axle, posing a choking hazard to young children.

INCIDENTS: None reported.

HOW MANY: About 11,000.

FOR MORE: Call Target at 800-440-0680 FREE from 7 a.m.

Article source: http://www.highlandstoday.com/hi/news/ride-on-toy-planes-bicycle-trailers-among-items-recalled-this-week-20151103/

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A preliminary report on Thursday’s plane crash that killed four people can be expected in approximately 10 days.

On Friday, Mike Folkerts, an air safety investigator for the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), was among those at the site of the crash, which occurred before 8 a.m. Thursday.

A spokespersons at the NTSB’s Washington, D.C., office said the first part of the investigation consists of preserving perishable evidence, which involves documenting the entire accident scene and wreckage, as well as collecting any GPS devices, smartphones or other devices that may contain information.

Folkerts said many items recovered will not be able to be tested due to fire damage. The plane did not have a so-called “black box,” a recording device placed in larger aircraft.

Once the crash scene is documented, all evidence will be moved to a secure location where all parts of the aircraft will be laid out and examined.

The second phase of the investigation includes looking at various records relating to what NTSB refers to as “the man, the machine and the environment.” The man refers to the pilot, his or her training, health and related information. The machine is the airplane, including its maintenance records. The environment refers to weather conditions, terrain and other physical factors.

A preliminary report is expected to be issued in approximately 10 days, Folkerts said. The complete accident report is typically issued in six months to a year, and an NTSB report

Article source: http://www.couriernews.com/view/full_story/26936367/article-NTSB-on-site-for-plane-crash-investigation?instance=viewed

CAIRO/MOSCOW A Russian airliner that crashed in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula broke up in mid-air, an official of a Moscow-based aviation agency said on Sunday after visiting the disaster site, but stressed it was too early to draw conclusions from this.

Russian authorities also ordered Kogalymavia airline, operator of the Airbus A321 which came down on Saturday killing all 224 people on board, not to fly its jets of the same model until the causes of the crash are known.

The jet, which Kogalymavia flew under the brand name Metrojet, was carrying holidaymakers from the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh to St Petersburg when it crashed into a mountainous area of central Sinai shortly after losing radar contact near cruising altitude.

“The destruction happened in the air, and fragments were scattered over a large area of around 20 square kilometers,” said Viktor Sorochenko, director of the Intergovernmental Aviation Committee. However, he warned against reading anything into this information. “It’s too early to talk about conclusions,” he said on Russian television from Cairo.

The Moscow-based committee represents governments of the Commonwealth of Independent States, which groups Russia and other former Soviet republics.

Egyptian analysts began examining the contents of the two “black box” recorders recovered from the airliner although the process, according to a civil aviation source, could take days. However, Russian Transport Minister Maxim Sokolov told Russia 24 television that this work had not yet started.

Article source: http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/11/01/us-egypt-crash-idUSKCN0SQ1H120151101