| Annexes
to the Airline X Memorandum |
| CLASS | It's
No Longer First, Business or Economy?
It's Wired, Primed, Fused, Fissionable or Incendiary? |
| Annex | Topic | Comment |
|
MEMO | A
Plea to the next VICTIM of Kapton (we
drew straws) | Another
MD11 World Airline, just as safety conscious as Swissair thought they were, is
asked what they are doing about the multiplicity of factors that make fire-in-the-air
such a deadly game of chance. We're holding
our breaths (in breathless anticipation) -waiting for the smoke to clear (so we
can see what they plan to do). |
|
A | More
Likely a Wiring Accident than Oxygen Generators in the Hold | Final
Moments of ValuJet flight 592: (Line
Extracts From the Cockpit Voice Recorder). |
|
B | The
EXPERT VIEW or the OFFICIAL VIEW of KAPTON?
You prefer which? | Some
compare the potential hazards of Kapton insulation to dynamite, others say statistics
don't back up such claims - but enjoy your flight. |
| C | MOVING
BEYOND WIRING INSPECTIONS TO PREDICTIONS
| The
Armin Bruning Solution (a scientific
wire-sampling
approach) |
|
D | EXCERPTS
from the TRANSCRIPT of RADIO CONVERSATION
between PILOTS and CONTROLLERS
in THAT 1970 SWISSAIR ACCIDENT,
FLIGHT 330 | Subject
of the LETTER from Otto Rentsch (Former
Head of Safety for Swissair) After
that 1970 accident Swissair then actually decided to buy and install the
EVAS system but somehow ended up with the IFE gambling system instead. They wanted
a life-saver but they bought a killer (it had more sex appeal). |
| E | Broderick
/ Wertjefelt Taped Conversations 1992/1993 (FAA
arrogance personified) | The
FAA kills the EVAS device as "not required" (despite
an FAR that requires the FAA to resolve the problem of pilot blinding due to dense,
continuous smoke) |
|
F | WHAT
THE FAA KNOWS ABOUT AGING WIRING (and
when they knew it) | John
D King 12/26/97 (FAA licenced mechanic) 37 + 1 instances of
wiring-related aircraft fires
|
| G | FATAL
CRASHES – but US BUILT and CERTIFIED (just
when is your warranty void?) | A
compendium of fatal fire-on-board crashes of Foreign US made aircraft
(with seat-backs upright and tray-tables stowed)
|
|
H | Origin
and Propagation of Inaccessible Aircraft Fire Under Inflight Airflow Conditions (aka
deadly onboard fires) | NTSB
Recommendations to FAA and FAA Responses
(based on the philosophy that, if you give it a long and boring name,
no-one will take any interest) |
|
I | MD-11
SERVICEABILITY STATISTICS | The
Richman File on the MD11 safety record (accident potentials
based on incident arisings in comparison with B757) |
|
J |
ATC Transcript [SR
111] | Indicates
the rapidity with which pilots can lose control of an initially innocuous inflight
fire situation (due
to current checklist philosophies and the lack of a Flight Engineer)
|
|
K | MD11
Technical Discussions - Agreeing to Disagree
about the MD11 Design Philosophy | An
MD11 FO in technical discussion with John S or (whatever
you do, don’t short circuit the Electric Jet) |
|
L | CRM
–THE MISSING FACTOTUM | Was
the Missing Flight Engineer a factor in sr111? What else? |
| M | TIME-CONSUMING
TROUBLE-SHOOTING IN THE COCKPIT (flawed
checklists and smk/elec/air switches that can kill you) | Provision
of a quickly selectable "Flight Essential" BUS may make crews less vulnerable
than going through a trouble-shooting checklist that is very inappropriate in
a Kapton wired aircraft. |
|
N | JOHN
BARRY SMITH’S PUBLIC ADDRESS | Barry
Smith addresses to the media, experts [the FAA, the NTSB, Boeing and others] attorneys
and politicians [the Congress and Senate]. TWA800 wiring (see blue highlights) |
| O | FAA
Missed Warning on Insulation Burn Test | FAA
– A Concerned Agency Re-evaluates Its Role In Airline Safety |
|
P | EDWARD
BLOCK ON WIRING | Edward
Block’s very credible wire credentials and his learned treatise on:
"An Analysis of What Caused VALUJET 592 To Crash"
|
|
Q | Some
Contemporary Flight Safety Concerns | (A
Media Shooting Script -by John S) – for Ross Coulthart of Channel Nine
[see http://sunday.ninemsn.com.au/person_rc.htm ] |
|
R | The
SR 111 Aide-memoire (a remembrance) | (by
john s) A compendium of topics relevant to the Downing of Flight sr111
(Links
in the Chain - lest we forget) |
|
S | A
Pilot’s Viewpoint | Pilot
credentials, concerns and proposed solutions to onboard fires – The VIRGIN
BUS (smoke if you have them) |
|
T | The
Technological Proposition for
seeing in dense continuous
smoke | Jim
Bennet of Santiago Chile proposes a technological solution to blinded pilots.
–part removed and censored (proprietary in confidence)-
but a viable solution Email
Jim for details (he's looking for partners) |
| U | The
sr111 TimeLine ** | With
R/T transcript (in HTML Format) also available in zipped Excel 5 Format
from CLICK HERE |
|
V | B767
Kapton Fire -Jan 99 | Another
definite Kapton caused fire |
|
W |
Three Decades of Aircraft Wire
| Ed
Block on Wire Types You'll
never be stranded airborne by wire- it's a down-to-earth experience -guaranteed.
|
|
X | IT
IS A WORLD-WIDE PROBLEM | A
Memo from a British Wire Expert (in confirmation) |
| Virgin Bus Index | All
about this solution to the Nero-Like fiddling with smoke Checklists that is Standard
GLOBALLY. | It
may never be adopted - but it would be a life-saver |
| FAA to GAO | That 1992 Wojnar Letter | FAA
to GAO (General Acctg Office) -some very revealing revelations about wire and
the FAA's nonchalance about it. |
| WEB-SITES |  | http://www.geocities.com/Eureka/Concourse/7349/index.htm
DaggerDirk’s WEB-site with informed
technical commentary on the Swissair MD11 Accident and Crew Resource Management
factors. |
| http://members.aol.com/papcecst
Patrick Price’s WEB-site on Kapton arc-wire tracking |
| http://www.aviationtoday.com/reports/wiring.htm
Air Safety Week on aircraft wiring
(The Phillips Publishing Site) |
The MEMO