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- Air Charters Had Deadliest Year Since 2000
- Aviation Lobbyists Want Air-Traffic Funds From Govt
- Japan issues aviation advisory over possible launch of …
- Company victim of aviation slump
Air Charters Had Deadliest Year Since 2000
Washington Post
The air charter category includes medical helicopters tour flights and air taxis. That toll compared with 43 air-charter deaths in 2007 according to the National Transportation Safety Board’s annual review of aviation accident statistics. The agency recently put the spotlight on the safety of medevac helicopter services. Those helicopters were involved in four accidents last year resulting in 15 deaths. That included a crash in Prince George’s County that killed four people. The safety board’s figures showed that general aviation remained the deadliest form of air travel accounting for 495 of the 564 fatalities in U.
Aviation Lobbyists Want Air-Traffic Funds From Govt
Wall Street Journal
) By Darrell A. Hughes f DW JNES NEWSWIRES WASHINGTN (Dow Jones)–Aviation advocates are aggressively lobbying Congress to supply funding that will help airlines in revamping the U. air traffic control system but they decline to say how much the airline industry would contribute to the aeronautic overhaul. “It’s premature to make any commitments one way or the other as to exactly where the money is going to come from and in what proportion” Air Transport Association President Jim May said. The head of the trade group comprising the principal U.
Japan issues aviation advisory over possible launch of …
Xinhua
“Aircraft flying within five nautical miles of the specified areas should be particularly vigilant just in case” Kyodo News quoted an official of the Land Infrastructure Transport and Tourism Ministry as saying. The Notice to Airmen or NTAM was issued by the transport ministry’s Air Traffic Flow Management Center ahead of Pyongyang’s planned launch of a rocket. Japan has deployed Patriot guided-missile fire units in Akita and Iwate prefectures over which the rocket is expected to fly and in and around Tokyo to shoot down any part of the rocket if it appears to be falling on those areas. Pyongyang said the launch will be sometime between April 4 and 8.
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Company victim of aviation slump
BBC News
" Mr ´ Muilleoir continued: "He was talking of course about the CEs of Detroit motor companies who travelled to (Washington) DC to give evidence to a congressional committee in three separate corporate jets. "Since that happened not only has the bama presidency ruled out the use of bailout monies for corporate jets but it has sent a shudder through corporate America and made almost everyone drop their jet-buying plans. " ‘Long hard summer’Two of the largest makers of general-aviation aircraft in the US Cessna and Hawker Beechcraft – have launched advertising campaigns to tell business executives to ignore criticism and keep buying planes. However two companies have dropped plans to buy jets. In the US Citigroup cancelled a $50m executive jet and in the UK Royal Bank of Scotland scrapped a new corporate jet. The aviation website planetalking. com said figures for 2008 showed it was the worse year for cutbacks in the aerospace industry since 2001.