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Security : toward case by case security checkings ?
Posted on December 29, 2010 | No CommentsThe IATA recently proposed to improve security checkpoints with different lanes, procedures and level of screening depending on potential of risk of each passengers, being determinated upon passengers personal information. This idea aims at making security checkpoint, which are the most painful step of air travel (most of all in... -
Airbus warns airlines about Pitot probes
Posted on December 22, 2010 | No CommentsThings are undoubtedly moving on the sensitive field of the Pitot probes that are being incriminated in the AF447 crash that happened in june 2009. Yesterday, Airbus issued an OEB (Operations Engineering Bulletin) to all airlines operating A330 and A340 aircrafts to remind pilots not to re-engage the autopilot after... -
Safety : to what extent could passengers trust airlines ?
Posted on November 19, 2010 | 1 CommentThat’s a question more and more “average passengers” may soon be asking. In a former post I mentioned a kind of lack of transparency that impacts passengers and even airline employees’ trust toward airlines. In short, it’s all about wondering why, when facing a similar situation, two airlines may make... -
A380 engine failure : Air France and Emirates not concerned. Questions on the A350
Posted on November 6, 2010 | No CommentsThings are becoming clearer after the incident that happened to a Qantas A380. It seems that the problem is related to Rolls Royce”s Trent 900 engine that possibly suffers from a conception issue. First consequence : only the airlines that operate Trent 900 equiped A380 are concerned. Namely :Qantas, Lufthansa... -
Qantas grounds their A380 fleet because of an engine failure
Posted on November 4, 2010 | 2 CommentsThe news came earlier this morning : because of an engine failure, a Qantas A380 (flight QF32) had to made an emergency landing in Singapore. Some source says it’s more precisely an engine explosion even if the airline seems to deny it. Some pieces of the engine felt down on... -
1min 17 sec. to evacuate an A380
Posted on October 18, 2010 | No CommentsIn the past, emergency evacuation was not the main concern when a plane was design. In a far past, some dramas happened because of this constraint was a secondary point. Now that’s history and planes that have been designed since the early 80s integrate emergency evacuation issues as a major... -
About subjectivity in aviation safety
Posted on October 12, 2010 | 1 CommentSafety is the first preoccupation of any company involved in passenger’s transportation, would it be by land, air, rail… The more it operates on a domain where the price of any mistake is high, the more the procedures that aims at enforcing passenger’s safety are strict. This is, of course,... -
Finding safety instructions boring ? Fly Cebu Airlines !
Posted on October 2, 2010 | No CommentsThe safety procedures demonstration that heppens before any flight is often boring…most of all because when you travel often you sometimes know the text as well as the flight attendants. A friend recently showed me how Cebu Pacific Airlines is making this moment fun ! -
Airlines react to the malicious use of laser pointers
Posted on September 8, 2010 | No CommentsThe little laser pointers anyone can buy for a few dollars are beginning to worry more and more people. Designed for a harmless use (like pointing at elements of a slide), pointers have been diverted from their original purpose and are used to bother and dazzle people. Last year we... -
Half air travel fatalities are caused by flawed simulators
Posted on September 2, 2010 | No CommentsThat’s the conclusion of an USA Today analysis of the federal accident records. More than half of the fatalities in US airlines accidents after 2000 would have a link with flawed simulators. In many cases they are said not being close enough to real flight conditions, mistaking pilots about some...
