25 jan 2010 Ethiopian Airlines 737 Down Off The Coast of Lebanon Nine bodies found from Ethiopian Airlines crash Preliminary Accident Data; Ethiopian Airlines Plane catches fire in Iran, injures 42 Tu-154 lost both wings and empennage in Mashhad crash Preliminary Accident Data; Mashhad Airliner forced to land after colliding with bird IATA, ICAO, and DHS Meet To Discuss Aviation Security Cooperation Unruly passenger forces united jet to divert to DIA American Airlines to furlough up to 175 pilots AIG Aircraft-leasing Unit Chief Udvar-Hazy To Leave Bahrain Gulf Air Sells Two Airbus A340 To US Apollo Aviation ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Ethiopian Airlines 737 Down Off The Coast of Lebanon No Reports Of Emergency Broadcasts Ethiopian Airlines flight 409 disappeared off radar screens shortly after leaving Beirut International Airport (OLBA) enroute to Addis Ababa (HAAB) early Monday morning. Eyewitness reports indicate the 737 may have impacted in the Mediterranean Sea. An unnamed source at the Lebanese Civil Aviation Authority confirmed the incident to the New York Times: "Yes, the plane crashed into the sea off Lebanon." The flight reportedly took off just after its scheduled departure time of 02:10 local. Less than an hour into the 4hr, 40 minute flight, Lebanese radar lost contact with the aircraft. 85 passengers are being reported aboard in addition to seven crew. There is currently no speculation as to the cause of the incident. An unconfirmed eyewitness report from the coast of Lebanon claimed to have seen an aircraft descending while engulfed in flames. FMI: http://www.ethiopianairlines.com [http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?et=1102962242415&s=6053&e=001GFfBJV4yjHPJk7Ga6LgSD0QnO-t_4JwSyRHY_2C17H1OFLOqP7vUQVirIElwczpwiMxQM0gK_IhREag06nN76KgflquJSfqEVyTGUYJd5MS5OzJOwTKZXpRlMwDRwzVF] aero-new2s.net ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Nine bodies found from Ethiopian Airlines crash Beirut, Lebanon (CNN) -- Rescue crews searched feverishly in poor weather conditions Monday for passengers from an Ethiopian Airlines flight that crashed into the Mediterranean Sea minutes after takeoff with 90 people aboard. By Monday morning, crews had found nine bodies, but no survivors, off the Lebanese coast where the Boeing aircraft had gone down, the Lebanese government said. Ethiopian Airlines Flight 409 left Rafik Hariri International Airport in Beirut about 2:30 a.m. and was headed to the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa. It disappeared from radar a few minutes after takeoff, said Ghazi El Aridi, Lebanon's minister of public works and transportation. Authorities did not immediately know the cause of the crash. "We don't believe that there is any indication for sabotage or foul play," Lebanese President Michel Sulayman said. The Boeing 737-800 had seven crew members and 82 passengers -- 51 Lebanese nationals, 23 Ethiopians, two Britons, an Iraqi, a Turk, a Syrian, a Canadian, a Russian and a person from France, the airline said. An earlier tally provided by the Lebanese government varied slightly. Among the passengers was the wife of the French ambassador to Lebanon, said Anne Charlotte of the French embassy. Authorities did not immediately know the cause of the crash. The plane crashed about 3.5 km (2.1 miles) west of the town of Na'ameh. Na'ameh is 15 km (9 miles) south of Beirut. As worried family members gathered at the Beirut airport for news, the army and the U.N. Interim Force in Lebanon continued to scour the crash site for survivors. "We hope that we will be able to rescue as many survivors, but the weather conditions are very bad," Sulayman said. Government-owned Ethiopian Airlines is one of the largest in Africa. Unlike several African carriers that are not allowed in European air space because of shoddy safety records, Ethiopian Airlines serves Europe. It serves three other continents as well, for a total of 56 destinations. The airline has such a commendable safety record that some expanding airlines in Asia have lured away its pilots at high pay, The New York Times reported in 2006. The airline has experienced two fatal crashes since 1980. In November 1996, a flight bound for Ivory Coast, also known as Cote D'Ivoire, was hijacked by three men who demanded that the pilot fly to Australia. The pilot attempted an emergency landing near the Comoros Islands off Africa as the plane ran out of fuel, but crashed. About 130 of the 172 people aboard died, according to published reports. And in September 1988, a flight struck a flock of birds during takeoff. During the crash landing that followed, 31 people of the 105 people aboard died. http://edition.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/africa/01/25/ethiopian.airliner.crash/ [http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?et=1102962242415&s=6053&e=001GFfBJV4yjHM8lHiEn6f4pJMuZcE0c7lwkubfJgVW22Rp-tL7xQGRNVw1n9r1XHpcbp9dhUzBjMMI0hwQCPIPEKu12z5_JAxaSNxOczZV9RuqZVDFABCmjNUiy0RZk-FM7m_Fg3YWeYb2TqPew39WBKClC_sLSOp0qMUu4cf6VXfXiioIYxK4mbKYfKzMFuF9] ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Preliminary Accident Data Status: Preliminary Date: 25 JAN 2010 Time: ca 02:35 Type: Boeing 737 Operator: Ethiopian Airlines Registration: C/n / msn: First flight: Crew: Fatalities: / Occupants: 8 Passengers: Fatalities: / Occupants: 82 Total: Fatalities: / Occupants: 90 Airplane damage: Written off Airplane fate: Written off (damaged beyond repair) Location: Beirut International Airport (BEY) (Lebanon) Phase: Initial climb (ICL) Nature: International Scheduled Passenger Departure airport: Beirut International Airport (BEY/OLBA), Lebanon Destination airport: Addis Ababa-Bole Airport (ADD/HAAB), Ethiopia Narrative: Crashed into the sea shortly after takeoff. Reportedly seven survivors were found by Lebanese army personnel. Weather reported about the time of the accident (00:35 UTC) was: OLBA 250000Z 31008KT 280V340 8000 VCTS FEW020CB SCT026 13/06 Q1014 NOSIG= [00:00 UTC; wind 310 degrees at 8 knots, variable from 280° to 340°; visibility 8km; thunderstorms in the vicinity; few clouds with cumulonimbus at 2,000 ft; scattered clouds at 2,600 ft; temperature 13 degrees C, dew point 6 degrees C, pressure 1014 hPa] OLBA 250100Z VRB03KT 4000 SHRA FEW020CB BKN026 12/07 Q1014 NOSIG= (aviation-safety.net) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Plane catches fire in Iran, injures 42 TEHRAN (Reuters) - Some 42 Iranians were injured when a Russian-made Tupolev aircraft caught fire as it landed in northeastern Iran on Sunday, state radio said. "About 42 passengers, out of 157 aboard, were injured when the plane was landing at Mashhad city's airport," said Gholamreza Massoumi, head of Iran's emergency medical services. There were no fatalities, said Iran's civil aviation spokesman Reza Jafarzadeh. A senior local official said the wounded were not in a critical condition, state television said. The official IRNA news agency said the incident occurred when the rear end of the plane, which belonged to Iran's domestic Taban Airliner, caught fire while landing. Mashhad is a popular destination for pilgrims among Iran's majority Shi'ite Muslims. The cause of the incident was being investigated, IRNA said. Russia's Federal Air Transport Agency said on Sunday it will investigate the reasons behind the fire and said "weather conditions and visibility problems were most likely behind the incident," state-run news agency RIA-Novosti reported. "The airplane touched the ground with a large load, resulting in part of the runway being damaged," it said. In the worst plane crash in Iran in the past six years, a Tupolev aircraft crashed in 2009 in Iran on its way to Armenia, after catching fire mid-air and crashing into farmland killing all 168 people on board. Iran has suffered a string of crashes in the past few decades, many involving Russian-made aircraft. U.S. sanctions against Iran have prevented it from buying new aircraft or spare parts from the West, forcing it to add to its aging fleet of Boeing and Airbus planes with aircraft from Russia and other former Soviet Union states. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Tu-154 lost both wings and empennage in Mashhad crash Images from the scene of the Tupolev Tu-154M crash in Mashhad show that both wings and the empennage from the aircraft were torn off in the accident. The jet's nose carries the name 'Surgut' in Cyrillic, identifying it as the Kolavia aircraft registered RA-85787, although it was operating for Iran's Taban Air. While the time of the accident has not been confirmed, meteorological data from Mashhad Airport shows it was experiencing fog at around 06:00. NOTAM information for Mashhad states that runway 13L/31R and taxiway F have been closed "due to disabled aircraft". Iran's Civil Aviation Organisation is cited by the country's state media as saying that the aircraft - en route from Isfahan to Mashhad - had declared a medical emergency on board before the accident. Source: Air Transport Intelligence news ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Preliminary Accident Data Status: Preliminary Date: 24 JAN 2010 Time: 07:20 Type: Tupolev 154M Operating for: Taban Air Leased from: Kolavia Registration: RA-85787 C/n / msn: 93A971 First flight: 1993 Engines: 3 Soloviev D-30KU-154-II Crew: Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 13 Passengers: Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 157 Total: Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 170 Airplane damage: Destroyed Airplane fate: Written off (damaged beyond repair) Location: Mashhad Airport (MHD) (Iran) Phase: Landing (LDG) Nature: Domestic Scheduled Passenger Departure airport: Abadan Airport (ABD/OIAA), Iran Destination airport: Mashhad Airport (MHD/OIMM), Iran Flightnumber: 6437 Narrative: The aircraft crash landed and caught fire at Mashhad Airport in bad weather. Some 46 passengers reported injured and hospitalized. The aircraft´s tail reportedly broke apart during the incident. The flight originated in Abadan Airport (ABD) and diverted to Isfahan because of poor weather at Mashhad Airport (MHD). The flight left Isfahan at 05:35. OIMM 240330Z 00000KT 0300 FG VV003 02/02 Q1021 A3015= OIMM 240400Z 00000KT 0200 FG VV002 02/02 Q1021 A3017= OIMM 240350Z 00000KT 0200 FG VV002 02/02 Q1021 A3017= (aviation-safety.net) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Airliner forced to land after colliding with bird WASHINGTON - A collision with a large bird forced a United Airlines plane to return to Dulles International Airport in northern Virginia, the Federal Aviation Administration said Friday. FAA spokeswoman Holly Baker said United Flight 915 sucked a large bird into the airliner's right engine shortly after takeoff around 4:30 p.m. EST. She said the pilot quickly returned the plane to the airport and it landed safely. Baker said there were no injuries, but one runway was briefly closed so that it could be cleared of bird remains. United spokeswoman Robin Urbanski said the plane was a Boeing 757-200 bound for San Francisco. She said the airline is still investigating the cause of the incident. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35021897/ns/politics/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ IATA, ICAO, and DHS Meet To Discuss Aviation Security Cooperation International Meeting Focused On Safety Standards The International Air Transport Association (IATA) hosted an aviation security summit with the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) this week. IATA Director General and CEO Giovanni Bisignani and DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano discussed industry/government cooperation to improve aviation security around the world. "The aviation industry is committed to keeping the global skies safe and secure. We live in a global world with global connectivity and global threats. The challenge is to protect the benefits of aviation connectivity and eliminate the threats. Governments and industry have the same goals but different expertise. Governments understand the threats and the tools needed to mitigate them. Industry has the operational expertise for effective implementation. Working together is the only way forward," said Bisignani. The summit was held at IATA's headquarters in Geneva and included the Secretary General of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), top executives from 25 airlines as well as participants from the US Government. "Effective aviation security relies upon close coordination between airlines, government and law enforcement to identify, deter and disrupt threats," said Secretary Napolitano. "I am committed to working closely with the airline industry and my international counterparts to strengthen global aviation security standards for passengers traveling to the United States and around the world." Bisignani commended the US for proactively engaging the aviation industry. "We applaud Secretary Napolitano's commitment to engage industry and find workable and effective solutions. A single meeting cannot solve all the security challenges we face but it is a major step in the right direction. We had a lot to teach each other and today is the start of a regular high-level dialogue on this critical issue. This cooperation should become a model for other countries to adopt," Bisignani said. IATA and DHS agreed to hold a follow-up meeting in the coming weeks. During the meeting, IATA and its member airlines made several recommendations including: ·Institutionalizing government/industry cooperation: This would allow security policies to be written with the benefit of airline operational expertise. IATA encouraged ICAO to create a template for such cooperation to be implemented globally. ·Implementation: Recognize that prescriptive, one-size-fits-all regulations with numerical targets will not secure a complex global industry. Governments must work with industry to define practical implementation measures for their security targets. ·Passenger data collection: Make passenger data collection and sharing more efficient: IATA urged DHS to break down internal silos to create a single data collection and sharing program that could serve as a model for implementation by other governments. ·Harmonization across borders: Governments must talk to each other to ensure that one country's requirements do not conflict with another country's laws. ·Next generation checkpoint: Along with optimizing the capabilities of current screening technology, we must begin to look at future checkpoints that combine technology and intelligence. "We need a checkpoint system that focuses on finding bad people, not just bad objects," said Bisignani. FMI: http://www.dhs.gov [http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?et=1102962242415&s=6053&e=001GFfBJV4yjHMC__996hwZmjX9HKDLNpMQaR8V-XIWXTI32pghG1pIwaut_tBQx7ifEajKdezALYs6WdE9jHVLFrtDSABdT4C0HRe9uLAQVR8=], [http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?et=1102962242415&s=6053&e=001GFfBJV4yjHPiM6vNd4_35Voxt7VyllHudI9xBASctyqdr3xOIKNrGw9hIO_YCbycp82FjhSfrDBSSlLK_toyNaHmwjOaiHZM4E5y1d9f53CkU_dgiNe1azQucycw9WUh]http://www.iata.org [http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?et=1102962242415&s=6053&e=001GFfBJV4yjHPjRedYvJbqbnX00voplnItTk54zAiYJO-1rFWufLSM3LT1EI3blRYIFQWm6_m-0NnsSHa0TeNoui0Bc1t58XpoX1_e8E7HXag=] ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Unruly passenger forces united jet to divert to DIA A United Airlines flight was diverted to Denver International Airport on Saturday afternoon after a passenger tried to open a door in mid-flight. The plane landed safely at DIA just after 5 p.m. Flight 223 had been traveling from Washington Dulles International Airport to Las Vegas, according to DIA officials. The disturbance began about 4:45 p.m., said Charlie Hobart, a United spokesman. Police met the plane at the gate and took the passenger into custody. The man had consumed alcohol before and during the flight, said Kathy Wright, an FBI spokeswoman. After questioning at DIA, the suspect was sent for a medical evaluation. This week, investigators will determine whether charges will be filed. http://www.denverpost.com/headlines/ci_14256195 [http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?et=1102962242415&s=6053&e=001GFfBJV4yjHNZAk4q11omMEWE-zI-CjcnbDKvIS5oIvrBQmGHg5u1P4MdtbsKPXS2t_NFe3AGBpDubil3fezvrkGX4ZxdorQ9Xmsvdrbf0oA2FhH0-DeACN3swg3YEYM6KbvcF_UccPeKdfY1NJvhdA==] ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ American Airlines to furlough up to 175 pilots NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- American Airlines announced Friday it will furlough up to 175 pilots in the first half of 2010. In the first round scheduled at the end of February, the Fort Worth, Texas-based company will put 80 of its active 7,800 pilots on leave to "better align the size of our pilot organization with the size of our current operation," the company said in a statement. American Airlines said the remainder of the furloughs will be completed by the end of June. A lower-than-expected pilot attrition rate and a reduction in capacity have resulted in a surplus of pilots, the company said. AMR Corporation (AMR, Fortune 500), American Airline's parent company, slashed passenger capacity by 7.2% in 2009 to battle a slump in traveling. The company announced Wednesday it lost $344 million during last quarter and $1.5 billion in 2009. American Airlines already has 1,800 pilots on furlough, most recently sending 300 pilots packing five years ago. A portion of those pilots have been recalled since 2005, but they may be among those who will be let go again. American said it bases cuts on seniority, letting go first those with the shortest tenure with the company. American Airlines said it worked with Allied Pilots Association, the union that represents the pilots, to ensure the first wave of furloughed pilots will be eligible to file for the COBRA health coverage subsidy. At the end of last year, Congress extended the deadline for jobless Americans to file for health benefits and COBRA through the end of February. http://money.cnn.com/2010/01/22/news/companies/American_Airlines_pilot_furlough/ [http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?et=1102962242415&s=6053&e=001GFfBJV4yjHPHniRO5htGy06sEb3iA4KMm7Op39DJkDeKG2NPEy702cb9GGGfoELE1u5Kt5TPIj5hniQYRNhwvH6ixGlCbaxCgut1xSPW2t7z4sclLNc1O_lWNjS6Krke9inh9j0uFPgQAd9FzkOr3JLnSI9B3bK05RLwq3zk0uTBxv-pQ-N83i9T5yW906OoewEYzxLxk6M=] ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ AIG Aircraft-leasing Unit Chief Udvar-Hazy To Leave (RTTNews) - Steven Udvar-Hazy, the chief executive and a founder of International Lease Finance Corp., may leave the company as soon as this week, the Wall Street Journal reported Sunday, citing people familiar with the matter. International Lease Finance Corp., or ILFC, is the aircraft-leasing unit of insurer American International Group Inc. (AIG: News ). ILFC may name John Plueger, currently the company's president and chief operating officer, to succeed Udvar-Hazy as chief executive, according to the Wall Street Journal report. ILFC, one of the two biggest aircraft-leasing companies in the world and the biggest customer of Boeing Co. (BA) and Airbus SAS, has been directly hit by the troubles at its parent company and has been put up for sale by AIG last year. However, AIG has been unable to attract a buyer for the entire unit. The New York-based insurer is now considering breaking up the unit and to sell parts of it. According to the WSJ report, it was unclear how Hazy's departure will affect AIG's effort to find buyers for ILFC, which is now relying on its parent for some financial support after being effectively frozen out from the public debt markets. AIG, once the world's largest insurer, almost collapsed in mid-September 2008 after rating downgrades forced the company to post collateral on credit-default swaps that banks bought from the insurer to protect against losses on fixed-income holdings. Udvar-Hazy was recently in talks to purchase about $4 billion in planes from ILFC, which had total assets of $46 billion as of September 2009. That plan, which had backing from private-equity firms Greenbriar Equity Group LLC and Onex Partners, was recently rejected, the WSJ report noted. Udvar-Hazy, who turns 64 years old in February, was succeeded in December 2009 as chairman of ILFC by Douglas Steenland, an AIG board member and the former president and CEO of Northwest Airlines. But that change was neither announced by ILFC nor by AIG. ILFC currently owns about 1,000 aircraft, most of which are leased to commercial airlines world-wide. The company is the largest customer of Boeing Co.'s (BA) 787 Dreamliner, with an order for 74 of these aircraft. While ILFC remained profitable in the third quarter of 2009, its debt load of roughly $30 billion and continuing lack of access to short-term capital markets forced the company to rely on federal funds channeled through AIG to meet some financial obligations. In early December, AIG said it would borrow an additional $200 million from the New York Federal Reserve for ILFC after it was unable to tap other sources of funding. Credit downgrades have barred ILFC from drawing on the government's commercial paper program and AIG has drawn on funds it got in a bailout by the U.S. government to help fund its aircraft leasing unit. AIG extended $1.7 billion to ILFC in March 2009, and provided $2 billion in October when a five-year credit agreement with banks including Citigroup Inc. 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The carrier, which in November said it hopes to save almost $3 billion over five years in a restructuring program, said the sale of the aircraft saved $25 million in investments needed to return the two aircraft to service. Gulf Air said the completion of the sale was a "milestone achievement" for the carrier "as it strives to become a profitable and sustainable airline by 2012." http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20100124-704585.html?mod=WSJ_latestheadlines ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Quick Links Products [http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?et=1102962242415&s=6053&e=001GFfBJV4yjHObDmm0Yip29cxk-0QdidCc3VoOD6MxwrnHhZzh-E1I9cKbJN42bekAgGMHu7sVRXVtMA6fc_0SW_-O678yFmakexI-W3-91W59OF15QT7kQAsHVHa86fte] Services [http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?et=1102962242415&s=6053&e=001GFfBJV4yjHOy3R-aakKDKLuQ8Z023TAoL0GQ0-K4DhcGuvA7FS6afxQrCXZyn6TBcPIGvwqZK1frh6WBUWA3e0yOihzJytbBjjMHSl0htKwS3mQNNEVbBA==] Contact us... 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