Second Cargo Aircraft In As Many Months Ditches In Caribbean
Sea
A Tol-Air Services Inc. Twin Beech 18 (file photo,
right) in cargo configuration was forced to ditch Tuesday in a
canal on the west side of the island of Culebra, a municipality of
the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, itself a territory of the United
States.
In addition to a number of issues arising out of concerns over
icing circumstances involved in the 2004 crash of a Part 135
CL-600-2A12 bizjet, NTSB has made another recommendation about the
way that the Air-Taxi industry conducts business, noting that
"Transparency of operations in and of itself is not likely to
prevent an accident. However, it will inform air taxi and charter
consumers about who is actually providing the service they have
hired, as well as afford them an opportunity to make necessary
inquiries about the operator...
Luton SC Also Receives G550 Maintenance Approval from the Hong
Kong
Gulfstream tells ANN that their Aerospace Service Center at
London-Luton Airport has received official approval from EASA to
perform maintenance work on Gulfstream G450 business-jet
aircraft.
The NTSB has followed up on its concerns over the 2004 crash of
a Bombardier CL-600-2A12 with a series of recommendations owed to
the "...particular concern to the Safety Board is that a qualified
14 CFR Part 135 captain and first officer, both of whom received
winter weather operations training in accordance with the company's
Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)-approved winter operations
procedures, could fail to understand the insidious nature of upper
wing surface contamination and its threat to the safety of the
flight...
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