News
05 MAY 2000
US incidents of airplanes or vehicles interfering with each other on airport runways (runway incursions) declined last year, but only a little, after climbing steadily for five years. (AP)
08 MAY 2000
Britannia Flight 484 to Zakynthos left Cardiff Airport at BST 0800 but had to return to the airport 20 minutes into the flight due to an engine failure. (BBC)
11 MAY 2000
A Transair Airbus A320 aircraft carrying 120 passengers was forced to make an emergency landing at Roma-Leonardo Da Vinci International Airport after reporting losing fuel on a Rhodes-Belfast flight. (M2)
11 MAY 2000
A man who tried to hijack an EgyptAir Airbus 321 plane (en route Cairo-Aswan) with a jar of hair gel was overpowered by the crew and handed over to police. (BBC)
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An SAS MD-80 skidded off the Troms runway on landing after a flight from Alta. The passengers complained about the incident, as they were not given any information about what had happened until they were outside the aircraft. (M2) 12 MAY 2000
European Civil Aviation Conference (ECAC) releases ECAC/JAA Programme for Safety Assessment of Foreign Aircraft - SAFA - Report 1999. (ECAC) 16 MAY 2000
British Airways BAe ATP (G-MANJ, Flight BA7787 Manchester-Belfast) carries out an emergency landing at Liverpool; the left hand undercarriage failed on touchdown. (BBC)
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16 MAY 2000 One of the 11 map lights suspected as a possible source of the fire aboard a Swissair MD-11 that crashed off Nova Scotia Sept. 1999 killing 229 people has been found unburned. (AP) 16 MAY 2000
The board of directors announced the selection of David Prewitt as vice president of safety for Alaska Airlines. Prewitt will report directly to Alaska Airlines Chairman and CEO John Kelly and will oversee all aspects of the company`s safety program. (Business Wire) 17 MAY 2000
Korean Air is restructuring its Operations Division with the addition of US safety expert Captain George Snyder as managing vice president, the replacement of four out of five current vice presidents and the addition of nine chief pilots. (PR Newswire) 18 MAY 2000
Final report on 16 FEB 1998 China Airlines Airbus 300 published; crew lost control on go-around. (AP)
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20 MAY 2000 An Antonov 12 aircraft, owned by Angolan Cassai air company and operating for Socofer, suffered a right side under-carriage collapse on landing at Dundo airport. (PANA) 23 MAY 2000
An independent forensic scientist, who had been investigating the 1987 SAA Boeing 747 Helderberg air crash for years, rejected a purported transcript of the voice cockpit recording stating that there had been a nuclear bomb on board the plane. (ANC)
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24 MAY 2000 The Canadian TSB issues an Investigation Update A98H0003 regarding Swissair Flight 111. (TSB)
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24 MAY 2000 Crew members briefly regained control of Alaska Airlines flight 261 before it plunged into the Pacific Ocean in January, killing all 88 people on board, air traffic control tapes showed. (Reuters) 25 MAY 2000
The FAA issued final rules ordering operators of 719 MD-80, MD-88, MD-90, DC-10 and MD-11 aircraft to replace insulation blankets covered with metalized Mylar, to minimize the risk of fire spreading aboard these types of aircraft. (FAA) 25 MAY 2000
A Stream Line Shorts 330 collided at Paris-CDG with an Air Libert MD-80, carrying 150 passengers; a pilot of the Shorts plane was killed. (ASN) 25 MAY 2000
A man hijacked a Philippine Airlines Airbus 330 carrying 291 people, then robbed everyone and jumped out of the plane wearing a homemade parachute. He died in the jump and his body was found later in the day. (CNN) 25 MAY 2000
The FAA revised it`s policy on their International Aviation Safety Assessment (IASA) project. (US Federal Register)
25 MAY 2000 An accident investigator told the trial of 2 Libyans accused of the 1988 Lockerbie PanAm bombing there was a significant mathematical error (in a complex formula used to calculate blast wave effects after an initial explosion) in the official report. (Reuters)
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26 MAY 2000 The US FAA has proposed to assess a $70,000 civil penalty against Southwest Airlines for allegedly violating Department of Transportation hazardous materials regulations. (FAA) 27 MAY 2000
ALPA provides detail behind its decision to recommend that pilots not participate in any LAHSO at any airport until all safety questions are properly answered. (ALPA) 31 MAY 2000
Investigators are to search the bottom of a lake for three pieces of tailplane containing depleted uranium still missing after the Korean Boeing 747F crash at Stansted airport last December. (Daily Telegraph) 31 MAY 2000
Alaska Airlines plans to fire two pilots who failed to land a Boeing 737-700 after oxygen masks deployed in the cabin on March 25, leaving passengers without emergency air for most of a Portland-to-San Jose flight. (Seattle Post-Intelligencer) 31 MAY 2000
Half of the passengers have sued American Airlines for Little Rock, Ark. crash of Flight 1420 June 1, 1999. (Star-Telegram)
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