AVIATION SAFETY & AIRLINER WIRING & FIRE-IN-THE-COCKPIT LINKS

Last Updated Thursday 11 March 99 @ 0255

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Personal Smokehoods http://www.avweb.com/articles/smokhood.html a must read!
Victim’s Memorial Pages (sr111) http://members.aol.com/phir1999/sr111links.html  
Official "Families of Swissair Flight 111" Club www.clubs.yahoo.com/clubs/familiesofswissairflight111  
the MEMO http://www.iasa.com.au/ an admonition to an MD11 Airline Operator
Memorial Site http://www.sr111.org/  
Memorial Site sr111 http://www.sr111.org/tech/don-ames1.html Swissair crash specific commentary
Memorial Site sr111 http://www.sr111.org/link/link.html  
FAQ’s Fire-on-board http://airlinesafety.com/faq/faq8.htm  
Air Crash Victims Support Site http://www.aircrashsupport.com/may98/sa111.html  
Nova Scotia Herald News http://www.herald.ns.ca/cgi-bin/home/package?SwissAir Swissair Stories
Many Swissair relates Links http://clubs.yahoo.com/clubs/familiesofswissairflight111?y&start=11  
Crash Detectives http://www.discovery.com/DCO/doc/1012/world/wings/crash/plane1.html  
Avweb Safety http://www.avweb.com/toc/safety.html good write-ups
Transportation Safety Board of Canada http://bst-tsb.gc.ca/eng/about/emergency/postings-2.html Swissair Crash Investigation Reporting
Transportation Safety Board of Canada Links http://bst-tsb.gc.ca/eng/about/emergency/links.html TSB Official Links page to RCMP etc
National; Air Disaster Alliance http://www.planesafe.org/  
US NEWS (sr111) http://www4.usnews.com/usnews/issue/980928/28swis.htm Story on Kapton
Air Safety Week http://www.aviationtoday.com/reports/wiring.htm  In depth aircraft technical wiring reports
Arc-Wire Tracking Site http://members.aol.com/papcecst  Patrick Price (37 year veteran of Boeing) and aircraft wiring expert
Swissair Accident Technical Commentary http://www.geocities.com/Eureka/Concourse/7349/index.html   
Technical Article on Landings Dot Com http://www1.drive.net/evird.acgi$pass*12338770!_h-www.landings.com/_landings/editorials/editorial-sep98.html Written a few days after the accident
Valujet 592 Memorial site http://www.flight592.com/  
Families of TWA800 site http://members.aol.com/_ht_b/hseaman275/families.html  
Aviation Lawyer http://www.airlaw.com/commentaries.html Arthur Allan Wolk
Air Crash Commentary Site http://www.gic.ch/matafora/aircrash.htm Air Safetry Links
Compuserve Aviation Safety Forum http://forumsb.compuserve.com/gvforums/default.asp?srv=aviationweek  
Swissair Accident Coverage http://www.gic.ch/matafora/sr111crash.htm Indepth Swissair Accident Coverage
AirLine Safety Site http://www.airlinesafety.com/letters/swissair.htm Swissair Coverage
Canadian sr111 news site http://www.canoe.ca/CNEWSSwissairCrash/home.html  
Full Swissair Crash coverage by YAHOO http://headlines.yahoo.com/Full_Coverage/World/Swissair_Crash/  
Detroit News http://detnews.com/1998/nation/9809/03/09040007.htm Swissair Coverage
"Aviation Week" Coverage of sr111 http://www.aviationweek.com/safety/news/nzsr111.htm  
"Aviation Week" Air Safety Site http://forumsb.compuserve.com/gvforums/default.asp?srv=aviationweek  
Halifax News coverage sr111 http://www.hfxnews.southam.ca/Crash/index.html  
Halifax Herald News Coverage http://www.herald.ns.ca/swissair/Swissair.html Original 1998 coverage
Halifax Herald News Coverage http://www.herald.ns.ca/cgi-bin/home/package?Swissair22 1999 coverage
The Toronto Star sr111 coverage http://bloor.thestar.ca/search/results/srchAAAa003hK.html  
ABCNews Wiring Coverage http://abcnews.go.com/onair/2020/transcripts/2020_planes980930_trans.html TV News Story
Airline Safety http://web.inter.nl.net/users/H.Ranter/index.html Harry Ranter’s site
Airline Safety http://aviation-safety.net/database/475.htm Data-base
Aviation Week Online http://www.awgnet.com/safety/library/autohf.htm Flight-deck Automation
FAA Safety Resource Centre http://www.awgnet.com/safety/autohf.htm Flight-deck Automation
NTSB Home Page http://www.itsasafety.org/ Aviation safety
Passenger Fatalities in US Airlines http://www.itsasafety.org/aviation/Paxfatal.htm  
Valujet 592 www.flight592.com Valujet 592
Valujet 592 http://www.flight592.com/Flight592Discussion-Current/index.html  
Avn Week Safety News http://www.awgnet.com/safety/ Air safety essays
The EVAS Smoke-in-the-Cockpit Sighting Device http://www.raytheon.com/rac/rapid/evas.htm EVAS smoke-in-the-cockpit safety system
Flight Safety Web-sites http://perso.wanadoo.fr/apremont/sitesus.html Links to aviation safety sites
The Last 37 Fatal Airliner Events http://www.airsafe.com/events/last_15.htm The last 30 significant crashes
Fatal Airliner Events by model http://airsafe.com/by_model.htm Airline safety by models
The Flight Safety Foundation http://www.flightsafety.org/ The Flight Safety Foundation
Disaster.com http://airdisaster.com/ Air Disasters
ALPA http://www.alpa.org/internet/safetypage.htm Airline Pilots Assn Safety Page
Avn Safetry Net http://aviation-safety.net/ Swissair AVNET News
Flight Safety Site http://www.gmtnet.co.uk/airnig/ Aviation safety
Pilot's Hot-Line http://web2.airmail.net/marystod/ Pilot’s safety helpline
Cockpit Voice Recorder Transcripts http://aviation-safety.net/transcr.htm CVR Transcripts
Aviation Week (AW&ST) http://www.awgnet.com/safety/safenews.htm Aviation Week safety pages
IFALPA http://208.217.189.50/ International Airline Pilots Assn
The Airsafe Journal

(back issues)

http://airsafe.com/journal/asj.htm Air-safety site (reports)
The Aviation Safety Network http://www.aviation-safety.net/ Air-safety site
Aviation Related Links http://www.dpw.dircon.co.uk/aviation.html Air-safety site
Passenger Safety Card Page http://leden.tref.nl/peavey Airline safety passenger briefing cards
Aviation Accident Site http://www.itsasafety.org/ Air-safety site
Aviation Accident Stats http://www.itsasafety.org/aviation/Stats.htm  
The Aviation Safety Network http://aviation-safety.net/reports/index.html Safety reports
PROAIR http://www.onelist.com/register.cgi?listname=PROAIR-SAFETY Register to get regular air-safety reports
Cabin Fire Safety Overview http://www.tc.faa.gov/fire/fire.html Cabin fire-safety
International Conference on Aircraft Cabin Safety Research http://www.tc.faa.gov/fire/fss/cabin1.html Cabin fire-safety plan
Aircraft Materials Fire-Test Working Group http://www.tc.faa.gov/fire/fss/material.html International Aircraft Materials Fire Test Working Group
Handheld Extinguishers http://www.tc.faa.gov/fire/fss/halon.html Plan to replace a/c halon hand-held fire-extinguishers
Best Air Safety Sites on the web http://www.aviationweek.com/safety/bestsite.htm Best air-safety links
Human Factors in Aviation http://www.aviationweek.com/safety/crmhfres.htm Cockpit Resource Manager (the art of not arguing in the cockpiut)
AW&ST ONLINE http://www.awgnet.com/aviation/ Great aviation stories
IATA http://www.iata.org/ International air Transport Org
International Federation of Airworthiness http://www.ifairworthy.org/ The Airworthiness Foundation
Avn Week Air Safety Centre http://www.aviationweek.com/safety/ Avn Week's Safety Pages
recent accidents & incidents http://www.aviationweek.com/safety/news/01recent.htm Recent accidents
Air Transport Safety Site http://people.unt.edu/~kgm0001/wwwlinks.html Air-safety links
accident photos http://www.airliners.net/search/photo.search?specialsearch=accident Airline accident photos
Search NTSB accident data-base http://www.landings.com/_landings/pages/search_ntsb.html Search for an accident report
The Silkair Crash http://www.mahk.com/sc5483.htm Silkair Airliner Crash
Silkair Latest http://pprune.org/ubb/NonCGI/Forum1/HTML/002468.html  
The Crash that invented CRM http://www.avweb.com/articles/ual173.html United Airlines 173
NTSB Accident Syopses by Month http://www.ntsb.gov/aviation/months.htm Search for an accident by month or year
NTSB Accident Tables http://www.ntsb.gov/aviation/aviation.htm NTSB home-page
Australian Aircraft Accident Investigation http://www.dot.gov.au/programs/basi/pdf/pdfindx.htm Australia’s NTSB equivalent called BASI
NZ Accidents http://www.taic.org.nz/aviation/index.html New Zealand’s BASI
UNITED KINGDOM
AIR ACCIDENTS INVESTIGATION BRANCH
 
http://www.aaib.dft.gov.uk/whatsnew/news.htm UK equivalent of BASI
the Inflight Safety Page http://www.plsys.co.uk/~anna/inflight.html Aviation accidents
The Interfaces Between
Flightcrews and Modern Flight Deck Systems
http://bluecoat.eurocontrol.fr/ Aviation computer softwares
Victims' legal rights http://members.spree.com/sip/marel/LAW.HTML
 
 
Swissair victim’s legal rights
Air Law Commentary http://www.airlaw.com/commentaries.html Swissair victim’s legal rights
Aircraft Accident Litigation http://www.netlaw.net/ Swissair victim’s legal rights
sr111 articles http://www.rapoportkupets.com/swissair.html Swissair victim’s legal rights
NASA's Accident site http://olias.arc.nasa.gov/ASRS/cb_194.html Aviation accidents
Aviation Industry Links http://www.aviationtoday.com/links.htm#Editors' Picks The most useful aviation web-sites
Aviation Accident Links http://www.gic.ch/matafora/aircrash.htm Aviation accident site
Civil Aviation Administration in Australia http://www.casa.gov.au/org/av_orgs.htm The Civil Aviation Administration in Australia
FAA Aviation Research Ctr http://www.tc.faa.gov/tc.html The Federal Aviation Tech Site
Research Development & Human Factors http://www.tc.faa.gov/hfl/hfl.html Research & development into Human Factors in Aviation
The Risks Digest http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks The Risks Digest (subscribe free)
Memorial Site http://members.spree.com/sip/marel/MD-11.HTML MD11 accident site
Airline Pilot's Safety Site http://members.aol.com/safeflt/airsafe.htm A pilot’s View of Airline Safety
The Peter Ladkin site

(top info)

http://www.rvs.uni-bielefeld.de/publications/Incidents/ Computer-related incidents in Commercial aircraft
Latest PR releases by FAA http://www.dot.gov/affairs/faaind.htm Latest PR releases by FAA
Halifax Airport http://www.tc.gc.ca/halifaxairport/enpage~1.htm Halifax airport
Air Crash Support Network http://www.aircrashsupport.com Family support
Aviation Accident Database http://www.tstonramp/~kebab/ Accident data-base
Wiring Test-Sets http://members.aol.com/eclycorp/products.htm Wiring Test Equipment
Wolk & Genter (Attorneys) http://www.airlaw.com/wiring.html Defective aircraft wiring
John Barry Smith’s site www.corazon.com Defective aircraft wiring
Selected Aviation Links http://www.airengineers.org/links.html Aviation links page
Should the Flight Deck revert back to a Three Person Crew? http://www.avnet.co.uk/pprune/Public_html/forum/Forum1/HTML/001452.html Flight Engineers
Pprune Airline Pilot's Forum http://pprune.org/cgibin/Ultimate.cgi Airline Pilot's Rumour Forum
Materials Combustion Research Facility http://map1.msfc.nasa.gov/WWW_Root/html/testcell/arctrack.html  
Arc-Tracking 
(Wire Insulation Pyrolization)
http://powerweb.lerc.nasa.gov/elecphys/facility/arcintro.htm  
Madden's Air Transportation Safety Resources http://people.unt.edu/~kgm0001/index.html  
The Cabin Safety Working Group  
SWissair Page  
Passenger Smoke hoods  
Kel air safety program  
Newsweek coverage  
Swissair Accident site (very comprehensive)  
Oxy may have fed fire  
Swissair on News & Views  
Halon Fire extinguishers in aircraft  
More on Halon Fire Extinguishers in Airliners  
Cockpit fire extinguishers  
Aircraft wiring dangers of fretting  
Replacing faulty aircraft wiring & insulation  
The Project On Government Oversight  
The Project On Government Oversight (wiring summary)  
Electrical Wire Arcing Phenomena  
Kapton as the Villain  
Arc-Tracking (Wire Insulation Pyrolization)  
Arc-Tracking (Wire Insulation Pyrolization)  
Fires of Electrical Origin (very comprehensive)  
Aviation Kapton wiring for sale  
New Aircraft Wiring Inspections Long Needed

(A MUST READ)

 
The Politics of Aviation Safety  
Wire type on MD-11 known to trigger fires  
Air Safety ViewPoints  
General Air Safety Site Links (comprehensive)  
FAA Action  
The Aviation Safety Institute  
The Aviation Safety Institute Accident & Incident Update (refreshed each Thursday)  
Aging Aircraft Electrical Systems Are Potential Killers Warranting a Major Examination, Experts Argue  
Swissair Update reports  
The Danger of Ageing Aircraft  
New rules promote safety in the skies  
Did Gadgets Go Awry?
Probing Swissair's entertainment system
 
Smoke In The Cockpit
How Airline Pilots React
 
Boeing 737 inspections: Half of older models show wear and tear  
Al Gore on Ageing Aircraft Safety Concerns  
Predicting wire insulation breakdowns  
Suspect insulation found in Swissair wreckage  
Swissair Crash Raises Cockpit Safety Issues  
U.S. Agency Seeks Mandatory 747 Wiring Checks  
Just asking for it  
TWA800 – whatreally happened?  
FEAR OF FLYING?   Money in politics affects air travel safety  
Old Airplanes Are Not Immortal and Should Be Retired, Former Safety Board Member Urges  
Cabin accidents  
DIX-EVAC® PASSENGER LIFE SUPPORT SYSTEM  
AIRCRAFT FIRE FIELD MODELS  
Older jets face stiff FAA tests  

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