Airplane Health Management Service Improves Airplane
Efficiency
Japan Airlines will expand Airplane Health Management (AHM)
coverage to its future Boeing 787 fleet. AHM is a software system
that monitors, collects and analyzes airplane data to give airplane
customers valuable, real-time maintenance information. This
information allows Japan Airlines to initiate the needed
maintenance immediately upon arrival at the airport gate.
The NTSB dispatched a team of investigators to assist the
government of Canada in its investigation of Saturday's crash of
First Air flight 6560, a Boeing 737-200 combi airplane. On August
20, 2011 at about 1530 EDT, the airplane, en route from Yellowknife
Airport to Resolute Bay Airport, went down on approach,
approximately 5 miles East of Resolute Bay, Nunavut, Canada.
Boeing 727 Went Down In July, More Than 70 People Fatally
Injured
A report published Thursday which has been confirmed by the
transportation ministry of the Democratic Republic of Congo cites
pilot error as the likely cause of an accident in which more
than 70 people lost their lives and several dozen more were
injured.
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