The News Review:
- FAA aided Colgan’s scheduling after inspector’s complaints
- Cessna plans more layoffs production cuts
- IATA Seeks Less Restrictions For Aviation Industry
- Experts say don’t jump to conclusions on Air France crash
- Experts mull over lessons from plane crash
FAA aided Colgan’s scheduling after inspector’s complaints
Buffalo News
Rockefeller the West Virginia Democrat who heads the Senate Commerce Committee and other senators that oversee aviation. “The evidence of FAA oversight failures has been a constant and troubling concern in fatal air carrier accidents over the past several years” the group said. Brown of the FAA said the agency had always taken whistleblower complaints seriously and followed up with changes when necessary. But Monteleon for one doesn’t think that’s so. He said that after Flight 3407 crashed “I put my feelings to paper in a rather emotive letter” to investigators who were probing his whistleblower complaint against the FAA.
Cessna plans more layoffs production cuts
MarketWatch
The business jet market has taken a severe blow in the economic recession as corporations have scaled back capital spending. Cessna said the weakness in the general aviation market is forcing further revisions to its production outlook. Cessna’s parent company Textron Inc. said it would update investors of its financial outlook when it releases its second-quarter results. Shares of Textron closed Thursday at $12.
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IATA Seeks Less Restrictions For Aviation Industry
Bernama
Its director general and chief executive officer Giovanni Bisignani said the aviation industry was not asking for bailouts but just some ease in restrictions of growing the business. He said in any other industry the product could be exported easily. But in the aviation industry the product is a route or a connection which needs to be preceded by an international treaty. “That is the rule of the game which was set over 65 years ago at the time of the Chicago Convention.
Experts say don’t jump to conclusions on Air France crash
Christian Science Monitor
The A330-200 is designed to fly with multiple component failures he says. And there were 24 error messages sent automatically from the plane to Air France headquarters in the flight?s last few minutes including references to the aircraft’s speed readings and autopilot. Not enough information Aviation experts say those messages do provide clues and may have relevance but they have to be put into larger a context and there is nowhere near enough information to do that. ?The consensus among the true experts is that speculation at this point is unwarranted and dangerous in the sense that it can be misleading? says Richard Healing an aviation safety consultant and former member of the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB). ?There is no concrete evidence that eliminates the possibility of a bomb. There is no concrete evidence that eliminates the possibility of?an on board electrical fire that caused a loss of control of the aircraft by burning through control mechanisms. And there?s no conclusive evidence that there was an in-flight break up — and none that indicates there wasn?t an in-flight break up? he says.
Experts mull over lessons from plane crash
The Associated Press
But the overall infrastructure is not yet in place to allow for its general use. Voss believes that being able to better communicate with aircraft is more important from a safety point of view than surveillance. Passengers may be able to use cell phones on a flight but the pilot may be relaying information via VHF — which has been standard in aviation for at least 60 years. When crossing oceans pilots communicate with air traffic control if necessary via high frequency radio which is prone to interference from sun spots and lightning and which can be difficult to hear. “This crash may put more pressure on international organizations to advance the use of satellite voice communications” — technology that you would use when you hire a satellite phone to “go off to Antarctica or deepest darkest Africa” said Voss. ne key factor in figuring out what went wrong on Air France Flight 447 is finding the black boxes. But the flight data and cockpit voice recorders could be scattered nearly anywhere across a vast undersea mountain range throwing retrieval efforts into doubt.