LATEST ADDITIONS to 21 Jan 03

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20 Jan 03
Are Shoulder-Fired SAMS a Real Threat? -Part One
20 Jan 03
The Worldwide Increase in Airline Fatalities in 2002
19 Jan 03
The Quick Lightweight Smoke-Mask
19 Jan 03
Found - Missing for Two Days (Peruvian F-28)
19 Jan 03
Melilla Fokker 50 Crash (Nostrum Air)
18 Jan 03
Plane Crash in Turkey Kills 75 people
17 Jan 03
Turkish RJ-100 of THY Crashes in fog on Approach
16 Jan 03
Uncle SAM Thwarts SAMS
15 Jan 03
Smokehoods - Think about Getting One
14 Jan 03
The Charlotte Crash
13 Jan 03
Swissair Crash Souvenir Sale by Halifax Local "Boggles the Mind"
13 Jan 03
The Charlotte Beech 1900D crash of MESA Airlines
13 Jan 03
The Air Transat Story in Review
13 Jan 03
In Consideration of the ETOPS NPRM
06 Jan 03
Namibia Midair (737 versus Cessna 404)
06 Jan 03
Three Flights a Day Get Fire or Smoke
25 Dec 02
FAA wants Safer Passenger Seats
24 Dec 02
The 767 Fires (tape-heater and blankets)
23 Dec 02
UK Parliament's White Paper on Flammable Thermal/Acoustic Blankets
23 Dec 02
The Covington Kentucky MD-88 (of Delta) Blanket Fire -the Whole Story
22 Dec 02

Swissair's Intent to Replace Metallized Mylar Blankets

21 Dec 02

Armed Guards for UK Flights

21 Dec 02

Leave Luggage Unlocked says TSA

20 Dec 02

Wild-Life Hazards At US Airports

19 Dec 02
A Policy Change on ETOPS
18 Dec 02

The Crow Hammer of Wake Turbulence

17 Dec 02
The AA Flt1711 (tail #068) Event - More A300-600 Uncommanded Yaw
16 Dec 02
Armed Guards for Australian International Flights
14 Dec 02
The Anti-SAM Initiative
13 Dec 02
The Graphic Imagery of A Cargo Hold Fire
12 Dec 02
The FAA's View on Their Part in Alaska 261
11 Dec 02
The NTSB Findings on Alaska 261 (and the FAA Denial)
10 Dec 02
The Crash of Emery Flight 017
09 Dec 02
The Failsafe Jackscrew (Air Safety Week Coverage - 650kb pdf file)
08 Dec 02
The Failsafe Jackscrew - Air Safety Week (AMFA and ALPA opinions on AK261)
07 Dec 02
The PearBlossom Fire Service Crash
07 Dec 02
The Fire Service Crashes - A Finding
06 Dec 02
US Fire Service Crashes - Blue Ribbon Panel Hearings
05 Dec 02
Pilot's Altimetry - Avoiding Level Busts
04 Dec 02
Boeing's New Jetliner Safety WebSite
04 Dec 02
Full Coverage of the Alaska 261 MD-83 Crash
03 Dec 02
So, Whose Hands Are Dirty?
03 Dec 02
The 737 Rudder Fix and Reliable Redundancy
03 Dec 02
Israel Now into Emergency Production of Airliner Missile Defence System
03 Dec 02
Israel's El Al Airliners have a Missile Defence System Fitted
02 Dec 02
NTSB Board Meeting on Alaska 261 Wrap-up
01 Dec 02
Another "Smoker" Emergency Lands in Halifax
30 Nov 02
US Senators Urge Protections Against Shoulder-Fired Missilry
29 Nov 02
Al Qaeda Now Using Shoulder-Fired Missiles
28 Nov 02
Third Fuel Pump Warnings for 747 and 737
27 Nov 02
The Failsafe Jackscrew - How it Could Have Prevented AK261
26 Nov 02
The Failsafe Jackscrew- Safety Through Redundancy
26 Nov 02
The FAA/NTSB Study on Certification Woes
26 Nov 02
FAA Sued by Emery DC-8 Crash Victims
25 Nov 02
Improving the Continued Airworthiness of Civil Aircraft
25 Nov 02
KILLING THE ARC-TRACK
25 Nov 02
ATSRAC UPDATED - the Business
25 Nov 02
Troubleshooting by Smell
24 Nov 02
The Truckers on the Runway - Needing Dreadle
24 Nov 02
Shouldering Responsibility for the MANPADS Threat
23 Nov 02

The LUXAIR F50 Accident - Four Similar CASA 212 Accidents

23 Nov 02

The LUXAIR F50 Accident - the Relevant AD's

22 Nov 02

The LUXAIR F50 Accident - Approaching a Cause

21 Nov 02

The Jury's Still Out on AA587

20 Nov 02
The Cargo Hold Fire on Air Canada 767-300 Flt AC116 (Graphics)
20 Nov 02
The Cargo Hold Fire on Air Canada 767-300 Flt AC116 Pt2
20 Nov 02
The Cargo Hold Fire on Air Canada 767-300 Flt AC116 Pt1
19 Nov 02
The Other Side of the Floating Boeing Story
18 Nov 02
The Strange Case of the Floating Boeing
18 Nov 02
Those Mylar Blankets Again
17 Nov 02
John Liotine Research Reference URLS
17 Nov 02
The John Liotine Story (7 pages)
16 Nov 02
Looks Like a Classic Wiring Flaw Perhaps?
15 Nov 02
The US Code Covering Post-Crash Pilot Voice Recordings
14 Nov 02
Security Bill Extends Screening Deadline by 12 Months
13 Nov 02
Two Fokker Double Engine Failures
12 Nov 02
Cellphone May have caused Fatal Crash
11 Nov 02
The Electronic Flight Bag
10 Nov 02
The Manila Bay F-27 Accident
09 Nov 02
Hard Lessons in Airliner Maintenance
08 Nov 02
Swissair 111, Discovery and the Body of Evidence
07 Nov 02
Alaskan 261- Maint & Jackscrew Design at Fault
06 Nov 02
The Fokker F50 Crash Luxembourg - Tracking Down a Cause
05 Nov 02
QANTAS Named in UK DVT Lawsuits
05 Nov 02
Airlines Face DVT Law-Suits
04 Nov 02
AA587 [A300-600 in Queens] not a Structural Failure (NTSB)
03 Nov 02
Vox Populi - the Swissair Memorial
03 Nov 02
The Condition of the SR-111 Memorial Challenged
02 Nov 02
More Cabin Health Issues
02 Nov 02
Some AA587 post-Hearings Forum Discussion
01 Nov 02
NTSB Grapples with AA587 Probe
31 Oct 02
"Province is Maintaining Swissair 111 Memorial" claims Minister
30 Oct 02
More Mylar Blanket Fires
29 Oct 02
The Perilous Parallel to Flt AA587
28 Oct 02
The NTSB AA587 Hearings
28 Oct 02
NTSB Clears Composite Tail as Hearings Begin
26 Oct 02
Libya Sets Conditions for Paying PanAM 103 Victims
25 Oct 02
A Bit of AA587 Skullduggery
25 Oct 02
More on the AA587 Flight Data Recorder (MS Word Document)
25 Oct 02
The A300-600 Flight Data Recorder Story
25 Oct 02
The Tail that Wagged - AA587
25 Oct 02
Horizon Air Installing Emergency Heart Kits
24 Oct 02
US$40K for a Security Cockpit Door??
24 Oct 02
Flt Attendant Settles for over a A$1M in BAE146 Fumes Case
24 Oct 02
No Secure Doors? = No USA Entry after April 03
23 Oct 02
Air Canada Implementing FOQA
23 Oct 02
Cellular Phone Use Soon to be permitted onboard
22 Oct 02
AA587 Fin Loss - The Rudder can do it
21 Oct 02
Alaska 261 - Solving a Redundancy Problem (Graphics)
20 Oct 02
Alaska 261 - Solving a Redundancy Problem
19 Oct 02
FAA Considering Passenger Ban
18 Oct 02
Saudi Hijacker Faces Extradition and Decapitation
18 Oct 02
Security False Alarm on a Delta Flight was an Electrical Fault
17 Oct 02
The Mesaba Air RJ85 Mishap
17 Oct 02
Armed Saudi Hijacker Foiled by Guards
17 Oct 02
MD-11's Slowly going out of Passenger Service
16 Oct 02
Passenger Anxieties - What, Me worry?
16 Oct 02
AA587 Accident Theory (cont'd)
15 Oct 02
Thwartwise - More AA587 Accident Theory
14 Oct 02
Suicidal Pilots - are they a Rarity?
13 Oct 02
Judge Backs Pilots' Objection to Flt 93 Cockpit Tapes Use
13 Oct 02
Mobile phone Interferes with Aircraft ILS Approach
12 Oct 02
The FAA wants a Seat Upgrade
12 Oct 02
TSA's Loy Repeals "Stupid" Security Rules
11 Oct 02
Want to Know? Ask the Pilot
10 Oct 02
Once There Were Navigators- now it's to be RNP
09 Oct 02
Required Navigation Performance (RNP) -Coming to the Skies Over You
08 Oct 02
The SAS Crash in Linate - Looking Back
07 Oct 02
The New 737 Rudder Valve (over the next Six Years)
07 Oct 02
Canadian Air Transportation Security Authority
06 Oct 02
A Story of Flawed Maintenance
05 Oct 02
The TSB's Flight-Testing of an MD-11 SR111 Simulator
03 Oct 02
The European Aviation Safety Agency
02 Oct 02
Personal Electronic Devices Aboard Airliners (4 pages)
01 Oct 02
Cockpit Fire on ANA 747

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