Click to view full size photo at Airliners.net Contact photographer Frank-Thomas Klütsch What: Air India Avion de Transport Regional ATR-42-300 en route from Silchar to Guwahati Where: Lokopriya Gopinath Bordoli International Airport in Guwahati When: Jun 10th 2012 Who: 48 passengers, 4 crew Why: On takeoff from Silchar, the (left) nose wheel detached. The... »
What: HeliCusco Sikorsky S-58ET en route from Mazuco to Cusco Where: Hualla Hualla Peru When: June 6 2012 Who: 14 aboard Why: The helicopter carrying two Peruvian crew members and 12 passengers (mostly Korean) is confirmed to have crashed in Hualla Hualla in the Cusco region in southern Peru on Mama Rosa mountain. The... »
Click to view full size photo at Airliners.net Contact photographer András Mihalik What: Robinson R44 helicopter, Austrian registration OE-XKS en route from Augsburg – EDMA, Germany to Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Airport- LOWS, Salzburg, Austria Where: Teisendorf, Germany When: June 9, 2012 Who: 4 fatalities Why: Moments after the pilot told ATC he would be... »
Yesterday the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) and Airports Council International (ACI), signed a Memorandum of Cooperation (MoC) to provide a framework to jointly pursue the highest possible levels of safety at airports worldwide. The group objectives are to support the development of the ACI Airport Excellence in Safety Programme, designed to help airports... »
Background The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) requires that commercial service airports, regulated under Part 139 safety rules and federally obligated, have a standard Runway Safety Area (RSA) where possible. The RSA is typically 500 feet wide and extends 1,000 feet beyond each end of the runway. The FAA has this requirement in the event... »
Small aviation organisations will be able to use a new simplified and streamlined process to comply with important drug and alcohol management requirements. The Civil Aviation Safety Authority is introducing the simplified drug and alcohol management processes for aviation organisations with seven or fewer employees engaged in safety sensitive activities. The new simplified processes... »
Jet Airways is suspending its Mumbai and Johannesburg route, leaving the field open for South African Airways, which is increasing flights between those cities by an additional weekly flight, beginning June 16th. However, other sources report that South African Airways is canceling direct flights between London and Cape Town. Will British Airways and Emirates... »
