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October 15, 2008

IFTC Istanbul Exercises Options For Two More Mechtronix Simulators

Order Makes Center The First All Mechtronix-equipped Training Organization

Flight training equipment provider Mechtronix Systems announced this week IFTC Istanbul will exercise its options to buy two FFS X Non-Zero Flight Time (NZFT) simulators. The devices replicating the A320 and B737NG are being deployed at its International Flight Training Center in Istanbul, Turkey.

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Curious Timing: Jet Airways Slashes Jobs Days After 'Alliance' Announcement

As Many As 1,900 Positions Eliminated, Including 800 Recently-Hired FAs

Citing "these difficult times" and an expected $2 billion USD loss in the Indian aviation industry in 2008-2009, on Wednesday Jet Airways announced it would cut back its previously announced winter schedule by 15 percent... while also firing the personnel who were recently hired to handle those extra flights.

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ExpressJet Announces Tentative Agreements With Labor Unions

Says New Contracts Will Yield $20 Million In Cost Savings

ExpressJet Holdings, Inc. announced Tuesday it reached tentative agreements with all four of its labor unions representing the pilots and instructors, mechanics, flight attendants and dispatchers. Voting is scheduled to be completed by November 1.

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TSA Thief Denied Permission To Leave Country On Honeymoon

Attorney Says Agents "Could Have Waited" To Arrest His Client

Poor Pythias Brown... the 48-year-old TSA baggage screener at Newark Liberty who's been charged with stealing dozens of cameras, computers and other electronic gadgets from passengers' bags, and selling them on eBay. He just can't seem to steal a break.

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Airbus Issues Alert Following Qantas A330 Incident

Says Computer Fault Led To Wild Ride

Australia's Transport Safety Bureau says it knows why an Airbus A330-300 dropped about 650 feet within seconds over Western Australia last week. Investigators have pinpointed the cause of the incident to a fault in the aircraft's flight data computer, which shut off the plane's autopilot.

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NATCA Claims Airliners Were Deliberately Vectored Near T-Storms

FAA Says Preliminary Inquiry Confirms Four Planes Rerouted Near Savannah

This story brings a new -- and frankly disturbing -- tilt to the term "on-the-job training." The FAA is looking into claims made by a controller in Jacksonville, FL that several airliners were rerouted Saturday to test the skills of an ATC trainee, bringing those planes perilously close to area thunderstorms in the process.

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Arizona DPS Medic Victim Of Blade Strike During Rescue

Hikers Saved... But At A High Price

An Arizona Department of Public Safety emergency worker was killed Monday, the victim of an apparent rotor blade strike during a mountainside rescue attempt.

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Airbus, Pratt & Whitney Begin Geared Turbofan Flight Tests

PurePower PW1000G Flies On A340 Test Aircraft

Airbus and Pratt & Whitney have launched joint flight testing of the PurePower PW1000G Geared Turbofan engine, with the first flight Tuesday on an Airbus-owned A340 test aircraft in Toulouse, France.

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Turkish Airlines Announces Big Expansion Plans

Global Slump... What Global Slump?

Proving that a recession is only a bad thing if you don't have any money, Turkish Airlines is dangling an order for as many as 105 aircraft in the faces of Boeing and Airbus. On the airline's wish list are the Airbus A350 XWB, A330 and A319/320/321, and Boeing's 787 Dreamliner, 777 and variants of the 737.

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Lab Creates Program To Virtually Blow Up Jets For TSA

Computer Model Simulates Effects Of Explosives Blasts

If you want to study the possible effects of a terrorist bomb on an airliner, one obvious way would be to buy retired airliners, and actually blow them up. That's the traditional method, but the Transportation security Administration wanted to know -- in this day and age, can't we accurately simulate an explosion using computers instead?

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