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Flight Safety Information (03NOV04-413)
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*JET ENGINE SUCKS IN WORKER
*Bird In Engine Sends Jet Back To O'Hare
*China Businessman to buy private jet
*Aircraft mechanics on hiring line
*China-made ejection seats launched abroad
*Blue Dart acquires fifth Boeing 737 aircraft
*Airbus celebrates 1,000th delivery to US
*Malaysia Airlines Plans to Buy 39 New Jets
*IAF chopper creates record with high altitude landing
*Boeing's Connexion Gets Off The Ground In Asia
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JET ENGINE SUCKS IN WORKER
Rescuers find only his boots
AN AIRCRAFT engineer has been killed by being sucked into a jet engine.
Horrified workmates could only find the maintenance worker's boots lying on
the ground under the Boeing 737 airliner.
Tragedy struck when a pilot started up the plane's two engines, not
realising the man was examining them.
Within seconds, his entire body had been blasted through the huge rotor
blades.
His screams were drowned out by the roar of the jets.
It was only when airport staff noticed blood spattered on the ground behind
one engine that the gruesome accident came to light.
The plane, owned by Kazakhstan airline Air Astana, had to be taken out of
service while the engine was cleaned. The incident led to an investigation
by airport authorities.
The plane was understood to be about to leave Moscow for London.
The Russian contractor worked for a number of airlines, including British
carriers. An airline source said: 'Everyone is in shock. The engineer was
examining an engine but the pilot had not been notified.
'Within seconds of starting up the engines, the worker was dead.
'It is highly unusual because there are strict safety procedures which are
followed by pilots and engineers to ensure these tragedies don't happen.
'The only comfort for the engineer's family and colleagues was that he would
have died very quickly and not known much about it.'
Russian officials yesterday confirmed the incident but would not add further
details.
The victim's name, age and the precise date of his death were not revealed.
http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/tm_objectid=14827727&method=full&siteid=89
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Bird In Engine Sends Jet Back To O'Hare
Third Such Incident In Recent Months Grounds Flight
CHICAGO -- An American Airlines plane took off from Chicago's O'Hare
International Airport Tuesday afternoon and turned around and landed 13
minutes later after at least one bird got sucked into its engine.
American Airlines spokeswoman Mary Frances Fagan said flight number 1353 was
on its way to New Orleans when at least one bird got caught in its engine.
Fagan says none of the plane's 72 passengers and five crew members were
injured.
The MD Super 80 plane took off at 3:19 p.m. and landed at 3:32 p.m.
The plane was the third since mid-September to turn around and make an
emergency landing at O'Hare after having a bird sucked into its engine.
On Sept. 16, an American Airlines plane at O'Hare made an emergency landing
after the pilots were unable to avoid a flock of birds, six of which were
sucked into the fan blades, causing an engine to catch fire.
A United Airlines flight to Sao Paulo, Brazil made an emergency landing on
Oct. 24 at O'Hare after at least one bird was sucked into its engine. The
pilot shut down the engine and flew the Boeing 767 over nearby Lake Michigan
and dumped fuel before returning to O'Hare.
Both planes landed safely and no one was injured.
http://www.nbc5.com/news/3884498/detail.html?z=dp&dpswid=2265994&dppid=65193
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China Businessman to buy private jet
A Guangzhou businessman who is trying to buy a private jet from a U.S.
company will probably become the first Guangzhou citizen to own a private
aircraft.
The businessman plans to buy a Premier I from the Raytheon Company, the
Southern Metropolitan News reported. The two parties were close to an
agreement after two years of discussions, said the paper.
Although China still imposes strict limitations on the operation of private
aircraft, experts predict that the number of private aircraft in China will
increase by 2,000 each year in the next decade. Flying is expected to become
a new trend for the country's nouveau riches.
The businessman plans to fly the aircraft to a branch of his company in
Panzhihua City in Southeast Chinas' Sichuan Province.
The Premier I is capable of 835 kilometers per hour at an altitude of 12,000
meters. It can fly two and a half hours non-stop.
Price of the jet is about 50 million yuan with annual maintenance costs of
about 3.6 million yuan. Operational costs could be lowered to about 1
million yuan if the jet was maintained by an airline, said Liao Xuefeng,
Raytheon's marketing officer in North Asia.
To buy an aircraft, one has to obtain a pilot's license from the Civil
Aviation Administration of China. Training for a pilot's license costs about
100,000 yuan. About 50 people in Guangdong have obtained licenses for
private aircraft, according to the Guangdong Tongyong Aviation Club.
Private aircraft need to go through a complicated application process to fly
across regions in China, as the government imposes strict limitations on air
space above 600 meters.
The U.S. opened the air space below 3,000 meters to private aircraft in
1978.
http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ned=us&q=jet&btnG=Search+News
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Aircraft mechanics on hiring line
Aviation company at SCLA to refurbish Airbus aircraft from Asian airline
Don Wheeler, an inspector with Southern California Aviation, inspects an
Airbus A310-300 at Southern California Logistics Airport on Monday.
VICTORVILLE - A local aviation company is looking to hire aircraft
mechanics to work on the first of three Airbus A310-300 aircraft that
arrived over the weekend at Southern California Logistics Airport.
An unnamed Asian airline plans to bring two more Airbus aircraft to SCLA for
storage and transition before the end of the year, said Steve White, vice
president of sales and marketing for Southern California Aviation.
"We're hiring aircraft mechanics," White said. "It was really a big deal for
us because it shows that this customer, from far, far, away has faith in
us."
He wouldn't say how many mechanics the airplane refurbishing company would
be hiring, but he did say the company has already done more than 30
interviews with candidates.
Certain things need to be done to the aircraft and instrumentation before
the aircraft can be stored.
Even the one Airbus on the tarmac shows prospective companies who have
Airbus aircraft in their fleets that SCLA has the facilities and the trained
workers to service the aircraft, said Jim Worsham, aviation marketing and
business developer at SCLA.
"It opens doors," he said.
For more information on aviation job openings, call Southern California
Aviation at 246-0036.
http://www.vvdailypress.com/2004/10994036194908.html
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IAF chopper creates record with high altitude landing
[India News]: New Delhi, Nov 2 : The Indian Air Force (IAF) has said that
one of its helicopters had created a record Tuesday by landing at an
altitude of 25,150 feet in a frozen desert region of Jammu and Kashmir.
The Cheetal helicopter made the high altitude landing at Saserkangri near
Leh at 8.45 a.m., and IAF spokesman said here.
The operation of aircraft at such high altitudes is severely affected by
lack of oxygen in the air, and pilots have often reported a sharp loss in
engine power and difficulty in handling.
A news item stating that a Bell 407 helicopter had set a world record by
landing at 24,971 feet on July 28 had spurred IAF and state-owned aviation
major Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) to try to better this feat, the
spokesman said.
"This morning, a Cheetal helicopter bettered the record in style. Flown by
Group Captain A.S. Butola and Squadron Leader S. Sharma, the helicopter
landed at Saserkangri," he said.
The feat was witnessed and validated by Wing Commander (retired) Upadhayay,
HAL's chief test pilot for rotary wing aircraft, and Wing Commander
(retired) Uni Pillay, flying in another IAF helicopter.
"The motivation behind this attempt was the fact that a Cheetah helicopter
of the IAF had landed at a record altitude of 23,240 feet just a few months
ago - not in the quest of a record, but to rescue causalities from a
mountaineering expedition in extremely challenging conditions," the
spokesman said.
The Cheetah helicopter, the workhorse of the IAF, is powered by an engine
with 847 horsepower. The Cheetal features a Cheetah airframe and the more
powerful TM-333-2B2, 1,000 horsepower engine.
The IAF's helicopter pilots routinely fly missions at heights of up to
21,000 feet to ferry supplies and to evacuate casualties from the Siachen
glacier.
"The combination of a light airframe and a more powerful engine has resulted
in a more capable machine, permitting a higher payload - a critical
requirement when operating at the extreme altitudes of the glacier where
every gram matters," the spokesman said.
"The IAF has been associated in putting the Cheetal through its trials and
is set to procure them for operational service."
--Indo-Asian News Service
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