The News Review:
- Drummer Sues Over Plane Crash
- Airport revenue dries up
- ‘Lower tax on aviation fuel needs political consensus’
- Pilots: Air safety downgrade will seriously impact Israel’s …
- Sedgwick County Board recommends contractor for aviation center
- SC Couple Indicted For Aviation Parts Fraud
- Raj takes on Sena with new aviation union
Drummer Sues Over Plane Crash
New York Times, United States
Barker, the drummer for the defunct band Blink-182, filed suit against the plane’s owner, Global Exec Aviation, as well as Goodyear Tire and Rubber, a maintenance company and two charter companies that brokered the flight, which overshot a runway and caught fire on Sept. 19 at the Columbia Metropolitan Airport in South Carolina. Barker and a second passenger, Adam Goldstein, known as DJ AM, were burned in the accident, and two passengers and the pilot and co-pilot were killed.
Airport revenue dries up
Chicago Tribune, United States
5 million passengers will travel through O’Hare International and. 1, according to the Chicago Department of Aviation. Compared with an average day during the year, it represents thousands of additional people paying taxes on airline tickets, parking vehicles, renting cars and buying food, drinks and souvenirs, as well as headache medicine to cope with flight delays.
‘Lower tax on aviation fuel needs political consensus’
Hindu Business Line, India
The amendment will ensure that airlines pay a standard 4 per cent sales tax on ATF throughout the country instead of the State-specific tax that they currently pay. This move will give ATF a ‘Declared Goods’ status. “I have told the Minister for Civil Aviation that if he can marshal support for the Bill in Parliament, we can introduce the Amendment in the Central Sales Tax Act,” the Finance Minister, Mr P. Chidambaram, said at the Economic Editors’ Conference here on Monday. Political support for the move is crucial as this is a money Bill and is considered a confidence vote for the ruling party. Sources told Business Line that the main Opposition party, the Bharatiya Janata Party, is likely to support the move; the Left Parties may not. Compensation issue
Another issue the Government will have to tackle while amending the Act is how to compensate the States for a combined revenue loss of about Rs 3,500 crore.
Pilots: Air safety downgrade will seriously impact Israel’s …
Ha’aretz, Israel
Federal Aviation Administration’s expected downgrade of Israel’s air safety rating is liable to have serious repercussions for the local aviation industry, the National Pilots Association warned on Monday. An FAA delegation visited Israel last week and will publish its official decision shortly. It is reportedly planning to downgrade Israel’s safety rating from Category 1 to Category 2 – meaning from first-world to third-world standards. Israeli officials have been trying frantically to persuade the FAA to alter this decision, but are yet to succeed.
Sedgwick County Board recommends contractor for aviation center
Kansas.com, KS
comp –>Sedgwick County appears poised to award a contract worth more than $32 million for the second phase of construction at the National Center for Aviation Training. The contract is for construction of the manufacturing and aviation building, the main training facility at the center. The county’s board of bids and contracts has recommended the contract go to National Contractors, which already is building the center’s “gateway” building. National Contractors submitted the lowest bid at $32,277,000. The highest bid, from Dondlinger & Sons, was $35,240,000. Two commissioners were upset in September by change orders costing $226,000 during the first phase of construction.
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SC Couple Indicted For Aviation Parts Fraud
Aero-News Network, FL
Appearing with their attorneys in US district court inGreenville last week, Jerry and Vicky Comeaux heard the chargesfiled against them, stemming from alleged illegal partscertification by Quality Aircraft Support from 1996 throughNovember 2008. Jerry Comeaux, identified by the indictment as owner of QualityAircraft Support, an aircraft-parts repair company, was licensedwith a Federal Aviation Administration certificate number used tovouch for the airworthiness of parts the company repaired. VickyComeaux was identified as Quality Aircraft Support’s office managerin charge of finances and documentation. After surrendering his certification “amidst earlier complaintsabout his work product,” Jerry Comeaux is alleged to have continuedto perform repair work and misrepresented the parts as certified,even using faked forms similar to FAA forms in an effort to defraudcustomers of a reported $2. The indictment further alleges that all parts repaired byComeaux after surrendering his certification are considered”suspect unapproved parts,” because of questionable documentation,part failure or failed inspections, the Greenville News said.
Raj takes on Sena with new aviation union
Times of India, India
The employees were taken back on service even before the MNS could
agitate. On Monday afternoon, Raj announced the launch of HAKSE at a
special meeting of party leaders and senior activists at Shanmukhananda hall. Nitin Jadhav, general secretary of the Airports Aviation Employees Union, has
been appointed general secretary of the new union. The media was not allowed in
the hall as it was claimed to be a “closed door meeting”. Nearly 2,000 MNS
activists from Mumbai, Thane, Pune and Nashik attended the
meet. Sources present at the meeting said Raj exhorted his partymen
to “gear up” in its fight for sons-of-the-soil. He lauded the youngsters who
had undergone imprisonment, externment and those who were lathicharged while
agitating on the Marathi Asmita (pride) issue.