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MiscellaneousIraq (3): 47 proven casualties in US air raid
Baghdad, Iraq - The attack was moved at Al Qaim, terrorist's stronghold West to Baghdad
The victims of the air strike performed by US in the city of Al Qaim would be at least 56 according to American sources, but at the moment, 47 bodies are reported to be taken to the hospital (see for details... more
Civil aviationBlack list: here is a hypothesis for the Italian case
Rome, Italy - Pointed out by "Corriere della Sera" and "Sole 24-Ore" newspapers but Italian Minister Lunardi firmly believes instead in the need of a white list
"Corriere della Sera" and "Sole 24-Ore" newspapers pointed out recently some six airlines which could be included in an Italian black list on the basis of details available when considering that such airlines... more
Press releaseENAC about Blue Panorama airline
Rome, Italy - To make a statements about Egyptian carrier suspended in Belgium
Enac, Italian Civil Aviation Board, said to have already carried out verifications into Blue Panorama airline from which no negative results came to light. Moreover, regarding Belgium Civil Aviation... more
MiscellaneousIraq (2): US air strike hit al-Qaeda's fighters
Baghdad, Iraq - At least 40 victims according to "Al Jazeera"
Several members of al-Qaeda, including also many local leaders, have been killed in an air strike carried out by US forces’ fighter planes near Qaim, Iraq, close to the Syrian border today. Among the a... more
AccidentsIraq: US Army's helicopter downed killing one soldier
Baghdad, Iraq - Another serviceman emerged injured
A military has been killed and another one emerged wounded yesterday when a helicopter belonging to US Army has been forced to an emergency landing under Iraqi guerrilla’s fire in the city of Tall Afar, 2... more
MiscellaneousHurricane "Katrina" (2): New Orleans Airport to shelter many tourists
Washington, USA - Firemen and airport workers to be ready to provide aid
Six Italian nationals would be trapped at New Orleans "Louis Armstrong" Airport: they are a couple from Caserta, a couple from Livorno and a couple from Milan. They were expected to board a plane for New... more
AccidentsATR-72 Tuninter accident: missing persons' bodies and the second black box have been recovered
Palermo, Italy - Edt Ares ship brought to the surface also the tail section and part of the cockpit
Cyprus’ ship named Edt Ares, as appointed by US company Phoenix International to perform recovery operations for the remaining sections of the ATR-72 Tuninter’s wreckage in Sicily, recovered the skeletons of... more
MiscellaneousHurricane "Katrina": air traffic went haywire
Washington, USA - Cancelled flights and high oil to bring to US airlines knees
Several airports were closed in Southern United States because of Hurricane "Katrina": air traffic went haywire; flying activities have been suspended in the international airports at New Orleans (Louisiana),... more
Science and technologySITA Inc awarded contract of USD 200m for providing IT services at Dusseldorf Airport
Geneva, Switzerland - For the first time in history an European airport has signed a ten-year agreement
"For the first time in history an European airport, that one of Dusseldorf, has signed a ten-year agreement for outsourcing of all its Information Technology activities. The contract, for a value of USD... more
Civil aviationFAA (Emergency) AD on Boeing Model 777-200, -300, and -300ER series airplanes
Washington, Usa - To prevent the display of erroneous heading information to the pilot, which could result in loss of the main sources of attitude data, consequent high pilot workload, and subsequent deviation from the intended flight path
Airworthiness Directive Federal Register Information Header Information DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION Federal Aviation Administration 14 CFR Part 39 Docket No. FAA-2005-22252; Directorate... more
Civil aviationFAA AD on Short Brothers model SD3-60 airplanes
Washington, Usa - To detect and correct cracking and corrosion of the rudder horn spar, which could lead to detachment of the mass balance weight of the rudder
Airworthiness Directive Federal Register Information [Federal Register: August 26, 2005 (Volume 70, Number 165)] [Page 50160-50164] Header Information DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION Federal... more
Civil aviationFAA AD on Turbomeca S.A. Arrius 2F turboshaft engines (2005-17-17)
Washington, Usa - To prevent an uncommanded in-flight shutdown of the engine, which could result in a forced autorotation landing and damage to the helicopter
Airworthiness Directive Federal Register Information [Federal Register: August 26, 2005 (Volume 70, Number 165)] [Page 50164-50166] Header Information DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION Federal... more
Civil aviationFAA AD on Turbomeca Arrius 2F turboshaft engines (2005-17-15)
To detect a dimensionally incorrect FCU filter that could lead to an undetected limitation of fuel flow, limiting the maximum power available in-flight, which could result in the inability to continue safe flight, avoid obstacles or land safely
Airworthiness Directive Federal Register Information [Federal Register: August 26, 2005 (Volume 70, Number 165)] [Page 50168-50170] Header Information DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION Federal... more
Civil aviationFAA AD on Airbus model A-300 B2 and B4; A-300 B4-600, B4-600R, and F4-600R, A-300 C4-605R Variant F; A-310/200 and -300 series airplanes (2005-17-14)
Washington, Usa-To prevent desynchronization of one of the three rudder servo actuators, which, if combined with an engine failure, could result in the loss of the related hydraulic system and could cause the loss of one of the two synchronized actuators
Airworthiness Directive Federal Register Information [Federal Register: August 26, 2005 (Volume 70, Number 165)] [Page 50157-50160] Header Information DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION Federal... more
Civil aviationFAA AD on Airbus model A-330/200, A-330/300, A-340/200, and A-340/300 series airplanes; and model A-340/541 and -642 airplanes (2005-17-18)
Washington, Usa - To prevent automatic reset of the DUs for the EIS during flight and consequent loss of data from the DUs, which could reduce the ability of the flightcrew to control the airplane during adverse flight conditions
Airworthiness Directive Federal Register Information [Federal Register: August 26, 2005 (Volume 70, Number 165)] [Page 50166-50168] Header Information DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION Federal... more
Civil aviationFAA AD on Pratt & Whitney JT8D-1, -1A, -1B, -7, - 7A, -7B, -9, -9A, -11, -15, -15A, -17, -17A, -17R, -17AR, -209, -217, - 217A, -217C, and -219 Turbofan Engines
Washington, Usa - To prevent failure of critical life-limited rotating engine parts which could result in an uncontained engine failure and damage to the airplane
Airworthiness Directive Federal Register Information [Federal Register: August 26, 2005 (Volume 70, Number 165)] [Page 50170-50180] Header Information DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION Federal... more
AirlinesAlitalia: business plan affected by increasing oil price
Rome, Italy - Additional about EUR 300-400m costs will have to be afforded by 2008 and unions warned about the fact that employees must not be subjected to other hardships
Alitalia Board must come into grips with the increasing fuel cost as being to date forced to perform changes to the business plan as aimed to contain an additional expense worth about EUR 300-400m by 2008.... more
IndustryL-3 Communications Vertex Aerospace LLC awarded of a over 36 USDm contract
Washington, Usa - To provide logistic support for 121 TH-57B/TH-57C aircraft and two TH-57C
L-3 Communications Vertex Aerospace LLC, Madison, Miss., is being awarded a $36,166,491 firm-fixed-price, cost-reimbursable, indefinite-delivery requirements contract to provide additional logistics support... more
IndustryLockheed Martin Systems Integration-Owego awarded of a over 50 USDm contract
Washington, Usa - For the MH-60R and MH-60S aircraft
Lockheed Martin Systems Integration-Owego, Owego, N.Y., is being awarded an estimated value $50,738,748 cost-plus-incentive-fee contract for the Link-16 Full Scale Integration of the MH-60R and MH-60S... more
IndustrySikorsky Aircraft Corp. awarded of a over 64 USDm contract
Washington, Usa - For the MH-60R Multi-Mission helicopter
Sikorsky Aircraft Corp., Stratford, Conn., is being awarded a $64,691,272 modification to a previously awarded firm-fixed-price contract (N00019-04-C-0115) for the production and delivery of six Low Rate... more
Civil aviationBlack List (7): AVIONEWS interviewed Captain Renzo Dentesano
Rome, Italy - "A black list makes sense only on the basis of careful inspections such as by the Quick Access Recorder, while the white list do not represent the general condition of the carriers"
AVIONEWS interviewed Captain Renzo Dentesano regarding the creation of white and black lists on airlines. Cap. Dentesano is an authoritative expert on air transport safety. One should first of all verify... more
IndustrySukhoi RRJ: strong cooperation between Italy and Russia
Soci, Russia - Also Indian HAL is likely to collaborate with Boeing and Alenia for the production of the new regional jet
Sukhoi’s effort in searching for partners for the production of the new RRJ regional jet (Russian Regional Jet, see also for details AVIONEWS). President Vladimir Putin confirmed the strength of the i... more
AirlinesVolareweb.com to inaugurate flight Milan-Linate/Paris-Orly
Milan, Italy - The new route will be flown starting from next September 12
Volareweb.com presented its first international connection Milan-Linate/Paris-Orly that will be operated starting from next September 12 with two daily flights. Tickets are available on the carrier’s I... more
AccidentsPeruvian plane crashed: USD 100,000 to compensate passengers
Lima, Perù - Airline unveiled the amount of compensation it is expected to pay
Passengers flying on board the Boeing 737 of Tans carrier crashed six km from Pucallpa Airport while was about to land as a stopover on the route Lima-Iquitos (see for details AVIONEWS), will get a recoupment... more
Civil aviationCodacons (2): Italian Customer Association released a list of airlines at risk
Rome, Italy - It includes foreign carriers violating ICAO's rules of national accordance
CODACONS, Italian Consumers Association, while is waiting that Italian Minister of Transport Lunardi and ENAC (Italian Civil Aviation Board) draw up an official black list, has released a list of airlines... more
Civil aviationCodacons warns Minister Lunardi and ENAC: 15 days to release the black list
Rome, Italy - "It is ridiculous that Italy refuses to draw up a black list"
Codacons, Italian Consumer Association, warned Italian Minister of Transport Lunardi and ENAC (Italian Civil Aviation Board): such measure aims to remove Minister and ENAC’s hesitation to release the b... more
Civil aviationBlack list (6). Air Memphis, authorized in Italy but banned in Belgium, to enter the "Grey list" of carriers at risk
Rome, Italy - The Egyptian carrier was involved in three accidents, one of them was fatal
The fact that Egyptian Air Memphis airline was included both in the most recent Italian list of foreign airlines whose aircraft have been inspected by ENAC (Italian Civil Aviation Board) with favorable... more
Press releaseIBAR wrote ENAC on the air transport's safety
Rome, Italy - "Incomplete carriers lists" create only confusion
"IBAR, the association that regroups 78 delegates of national and international airlines operating in Italy, has sent a letter to the ENAC’s President, Vito Riggio, in which invites the Board ’To decline in... more
Civil aviationBlack list (4). From SAFA checks to the white list: common procedures, different results
Rome, Italy - Checks on aircraft coming from non-ECAC members are performed on the basis of common rules but actually the white lists appear different in the single states
ENAC (Italian National Civil Aviation Authority) released a white list of carriers operating in Italy, actually indicating which airlines prove capable of honouring a series of standards concerning safety... more
Civil aviationBlack list (5): only one among the five airlines banned in France involved in accident in the past
Paris, France - Air Saint Thomas had a crash without serious after-effects in Virginia
French Civil Aviation Board has released on its Internet web site the black list of airlines banned from flying over French homeland it had longed for (see for details AVIONEWS). But AVIONEWS through a... more
Civil aviationBlack list (3): Belgium outlaws 9 airlines
Brussels, Belgium - Most of them were African carriers
Belgium released the black list of carriers that have been suspended or not allowed to operate by air transport authorities. The nine airlines present on the Internet web site of Belgium’s Transport M... more
Press releaseANSV: ATR-72's wreckage, sank last August 6 near Palermo, came to the surface
Rome, Italy - In addition to the corpse already found yesterday, the other two bodies that result still missing are searching
"ANSV (Italian Air Safety Board) informs that in early morning of today, through the special equipment used by Ares ship engaged in the operation, the nearly totality of the ATR-72 wreckage, sank last... more
AccidentsCypriot plane accident: 118 coffins of 121 victims have been recognized
Athens, Greece - Three corpses are expected to be identified
Hellenic authorities have completed the identification of 118 bodies belonging to passengers killed in the air disaster involving the Cypriot Boeing 737 crashed on Grammatiko hill, Athens, Greece, last... more
Weather forecastsAir shows and exhibitions in the last week of August
Rome, Italy - From today, August 29 to next Sunday September 4
Monday 29 - Parachuting - 1st FAI Junior European and 4th FAI European Style & Accuracy Championships. Prostejov, Czech Republic. + 420 732 632 806 http://events.fai.org Tuesday 30 - Parachuting... more
AirlinesOlympic Airways cancelled flights due to flight attendant's last minute-absences
Athens, Greece - Trade union announced a 24 hours-strike on Wednesday August 31
Flight attendants from Greek Olympic Airways are up in arms against airline’s privatization plan and their last-minute absences from work caused a lot of problems last week end: several flights have b... more
Civil aviationMyair grounded passengers to fly to Bergamo
Bari, Italy - Turkish World Focus Airlines mandate has been overruled
132 passengers departing from Bari bound for Bergamo by flight 8I 1061 of Myair.com scheduled for 9:50pm on last Thursday operated by Turkish World Focus Airlines which found technical problems causing... more
HelicoptersSikorsky carries on the development of the CH-53E's successor
Washington, USA – About 156 vehicles are expected to be delivered accomplishing the programme by 2014
Marine Corps considered in 2003 Sikorsky as the only helicopter group able to produce a heavy transport chopper by 2014 to progressively replace the current CH-53E in service. It deals with the HLR (Heavy... more
IndustryBoeing: Spirit unveiled 787 Dreamliner nose section
Wichita, Usa - Four additional fuselage sections are scheduled to be completed before production of the first aircraft
Boeing and Spirit AeroSystems celebrated the public unveiling of the first all-composite demonstration nose section for the 787 Dreamliner last Thursday at Spirit’s Wichita facility, formerly a part o... more
Civil aviationFly Air's Airbus grounded at Roissy
Paris, France - Civil Aviation Body's inspectors discovered some irregularities before the aircraft's departure
A Fly Air’s Airbus A-300 plane has been temporarily grounded last Saturday at Paris International "Charles de Gaulle" Airport, after French Civil Aviation Authority’s inspectors found in their check a c... more
AccidentsATR-72 Tuninter (2): a body and a black box have been recovered
Palermo, Italy - DNA analysis to verify victim's identity
The body of one of the three missing persons of the ATR-72 Tuninter accident was recovered this morning, together with one of the two black boxes. It is unclear whose such a body is as just a skeleton... more
Press releaseMyair: World Focus' operational activities have been lifted
Milan, Italy - Following technical problems occurred for an aircraft from Bari to Bergamo on last Thursday night
Following technical problems occurred for a World Focus’ aircraft from Bari to Bergamo on last Thursday night, a carrier which had been requested by MyAir.com to operate the related 8I-1061 flight, MyAir.com d... more
Press releaseENAC confirms that carriers suspended in Europe not operate in Italy
Rome, Italy - The proposals presented by Italian Civil Aviation Authority at the ECAC' General Directors meeting
"ENAC (Italian Civil Aviation Authority) confirms that none of the airlines temporarily suspended by the other European countries (Black list) is operating on the Italian territory. ENAC reaffirms that... more
IndustryFinmeccanica: 80% of activities is devoted to defence
Rome, Italy - President Guarguaglini pointed it out, so reminding that the fact State owns a stake in the holding is an obvious thing
Finmeccanica President, Pier Francesco Guarguaglini, underlined the role played by defence sector in Italian industry, putting into evidence that it represents to date about a 80% of the holding’s activities, o... more
MiscellaneousNew Orleans waiting for "Katrina": closed airports and cancelled flights
Washington, USA - One million of people on the run: the evacuees accommodated into "Superdome" stadium
One of the largest and most devastating hurricanes ie expected to hit New Orleans this morning and even if experts, in the last hours, downgraded it from category 5 to 4, the order of Mayor Ray Nagin to... more
AirlinesRyanair flight from Dublin to Rome stopped due to a bird
Dublin, Ireland - Forced landing at Stanstead and passengers flown with another plane
A flight operated by Ryanair low-cost carrier departed from Dublin and direct to Rome, has been forced shortly after the takeoff, to an emergency landing on the runway of London-Stanstead Airport because... more
MiscellaneousRussian plane suffered for a "Bird strike" while was taking off at Ronchi dei Legionari Airport
Trieste, Italy - "Failed takeoff" procedures have been performed, passengers emerged safe
Passengers departing for Moscow last Saturday from Trieste-Ronchi dei Legionari Airport where a bird got into the engine of Russian Vim Airlines Boeing 757-200, failing the plane’s early phase of taxiing p... more
Latest newsMartino's congratulation to PAN due to aviation silver meda
Rome, Italy - Credit gained last August 19 in Russia
Italian Minister of Defense, Antonio Martino, in relation to the aviation silver meda conferred by Russian Air Forces Chief, General Vladmir Sergeyevich Mikhaylov, to Italian National Acrobatic Squad,... more
AccidentsATR-72 Tuninter accident: recovery operations of black boxes have started
Palermo, Italy - Meanwhile, analyses on fuel at Pratica di Mare would seem to exclude the hypothesis related to the presence of residuals
Robots deployed by Cyprus’ ship called Edt Ares detected various debris and structural components of the ATR-72 Tuninter’s wreckage in Sicily on last Saturday, August 27. Slinging operations for such sec... more
Civil aviationBlack list (2): Italy denied such possibility
Rome, Italy - However, European Union is likely to order to carry it out and release on a national basis
Italy does not intend to release a black list of airlines to be considered at risk. Italian Minister of Infrastructures and Transport, Pietro Lunardi, and ENAC (Italian National Civil Aviation Agency)... more
Civil aviationBlack list: five carriers banned in France
Paris, France - And EU thinks about a European list
France released the black list of carriers banned from flying over French homeland (see for details AVIONEWS). It deals with five airlines: Air Koryo (North Korea), Phuket Airlines (Thailand), Air Saint-Thomas... more