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Day: <span>January 13, 2012</span>

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Iran Air Fokker Tires Blow in Mashad


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Contact photographer Shahram Sharifi

What: Iran Air Fokker 100 en route from Dammam Saudi Arabia to Mashad Iran
Where: Mashad
When: Jan 13th 2012
Why: On landing in Mashad, the tires blew, leaving the plane disabled in the runway for an hour.
No indication if the pilots landed hard, or were landing with a tail wind.


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Jet Airways Pilots Protest Nasim Zaidi Committee’s Prescriptive Limits

A letter written by Jet Airway’s Society for Welfare of Indian Pilots complains that the new limits for pilots flight time are set at 10 hours (compared to US’s 8) and the Director of Operations can extend that time an hour and a half. The letter points out that the committee selectively adopted from various schemes/studies whatever limits that suited them, extending the time well beyond what would be considered safe.

In the US, the maximum time pilots can be scheduled to fly is limited to eight or nine hours. US Pilots must get a minimum of 10 hours to rest between duty periods, a two-hour increase over the old rules; and pilots who fly overnight are allocated fewer hours than day flying pilots. In the US, these rules are based on the science of human biology.

The changes in US fatigue rules are aimed at preventing airline pilots from flying while dangerously fatigued. Notably, by comparison, the maximum hours of work prescribed for Indian pilots is about 25% more. The Nasim Zaidi Committee rules either completely disregarded the science, and furthermore, incorrectly defineterms pertaining to night-time operations, further opening up the pilots to further exploitation.


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Fumes Provoke Emergency Landing in Charleston


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Contact photographer Jay Selman

What: PSA Airlines/US Airways Canadair CRJ-200 en route from Nashville,TN to Washington National,DC
Where: Charleston
When: Jan 12th 2012
Who: 23 passengers and 3 crew
Why: While en route, the crew noted cargo smoke and diverted to Charleston.

The flight was cancelled.

After landing, the plane was inspected by emergency services, who found a closed system to be leaking.

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