The drone strike punched a hole in the CL-415’s wing and caused all firefighting aircraft on the Palisades fire to be temporarily grounded.

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California Crash Update

The pilots of the mid air coastal collision were flying “see and avoid, ” i.e. during clear flying conditions, pilots are responsible for making sure their flight paths are clear.

So far, there is no information disseminated regarding potential reasons behind the California coastal collision of the C-130 Hercules transport plane and a Marine Corps AH-1W Super Cobra. Two transports were on a training mission as 2 Cobras were also flying together, at the time of the crash.

The C-130s had been searching for a lost boater who is still lost; and the seven Coast Guard and two Marine Corps service members have not yet been recovered.

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Hopefully Hiring Pilots Who Can

Aviation is looking alive in India, according to Bombay’s * Economic Times.

The corporation running Air India, National Aviation Company of India (NACIL), is hiring experienced Boeing 737 commanders, and for its Budget division (Air India Express), they are looking for experienced and inexperienced co-pilots.

In this depressed global economy, jobs are always good news. Let’s hope that NACIL’s hiring practices involve some efforts at due diligence (hiring with a certain standard of care) and result in aviation excellence, even in its budget airlines Air India Express.

Hiring is good news…as long as cutting cost in tough times does not mean cutting safety. Even travelers with modest incomes deserve to make it to their destination in one piece.

“Recruitment gathers pace in aviation sector.” Economic Times. July, 2010.

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Boeing Upgrades 787 Wiring

Three cheers to Boeing for wiring changes before anything bad
happened

Supplier Spirit AeroSystems announced that Boeing will be introducing a new wiring standard for the 787 to reduce weight, improve maintainability and address a spacing issue between wires.

The revised wiring standard is known as NC5 or Net Change 5 which is planned for entry into service for the 787 by the end of 2010 should deal with eliminating a problem with the original configuration picking up signals jumping from wire to wire.

http://www.spiritaero.com

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Superjumbo: How big is too big?


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Haneda Airport does not normally accommodate the SuperJumbo because of the effect on other flights.

For the first time, the superjumbo Airbus A380, flew from France to Tokyo’s Haneda airport to check, among other things, if the airport’s passenger boarding bridges fit the double-decker wide-body plane’s doors.

Other Superjumbo problems? Some reasons why they do not and can not land at all airports-

—Being too big for the runway
—Generating wake turbulence that requires following planes to delay longer to avoid disruption and tarmac gridlock
— Requiring taxiways to be shut when it arrives or departs
— Requiring an official escort whenever it taxis

Hopefully we will be hearing about how the Superjumbo fared at Haneda today.

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