Nigeria: Air Midwest Ends Simulation Exercise
Fri, 19 Mar 2010 10:39:00 GMT
the exercise was categorised as 50 per cent partial, evacuation demonstration, adding that the integrity or serviceability of safety and evacuation equipment on board aircraft would determine to a large extent how successful an actual emergency would be
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Unruly American in PAL flight nabbed in Cebu
Fri, 19 Mar 2010 10:03:00 GMT
MANILA, Philippines – An American national was apprehended for causing a commotion while on board a flight from Manila to Cebu. Rex Maybert Hampton, 80, was nabbed by the Philippine National Police Aviation Security Command (ASCOM) when the Philippine
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RP airport safety worries aviation chief (1:49 p.m.)
Fri, 19 Mar 2010 07:54:00 GMT
Aviation Authority of the Philippines (CAAP) Director General Alfonso Cusi said the country should regain a topnotch aviation safety rating to avert any negative impact on the country’s growing tourism industry. After replacing retired General Ruben
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FSF Calls for Multinational Safety Probes
Fri, 19 Mar 2010 01:16:00 GMT
Citing ongoing criminal prosecution of Continental Airlines for the 2000 Concorde crash in Paris, the U.S.-based Flight Safety Foundation (FSF) is asking governments worldwide to form multinational, independent air accident investigation boards. The
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Air Canada dismisses crew concerns over suicidal pilot
Fri, 19 Mar 2010 00:56:00 GMT
the Atlantic Ocean. The airline insisted Thursday that the eyebrow-raising circumstances emanating from a dispute aboard a Toronto-Paris flight in July 2008 amounted to nothing more than a minor conflict between staff and a healthy, competent pilot.
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