Articles for Runway Safety

Delta jet flips upside down on a snowy Toronto runway and all 80 aboard survive
1 month, 1 week ago

Delta jet flips upside down on a snowy Toronto runway and all 80 aboard survive

LA Times  

A Delta Air Lines jet flipped on its roof while landing Monday at Toronto’s Pearson Airport, but all 80 people on board survived and those hurt had relatively minor injuries, the airport’s chief executive said. Peter Carlson, a passenger traveling to Toronto for a paramedics conference, said the landing was “very forceful.” “All the sudden everything just kind of went …

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Measures ramped up to ensure air travel safety
2 months, 3 weeks ago

Measures ramped up to ensure air travel safety

China Daily  

A C919 aircraft is seen during an air show in Zhuhai, Guangdong province, in November. YIN GANG/FOR CHINA DAILY In response to recent fatal Azerbaijan Airlines and Jeju Air plane crashes, China has ramped up safety measures to ensure the continued safety of the country's civil aviation sector. These measures include enhanced bird strike prevention and comprehensive runway safety inspections, …

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Close call, turbulent flight add to aviation safety concerns
2 years ago

Close call, turbulent flight add to aviation safety concerns

Associated Press  

Federal officials have begun investigating a close call between planes in Boston, and they provided new details Thursday about a harrowing incident at an airport in Texas. Those and similar incidents in New York, California and Hawaii led the head of the Federal Aviation Administration to call for a “safety summit” and ignited a debate about whether air safety is …

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Calicut International Airport scales down expansion
7 years, 5 months ago

Calicut International Airport scales down expansion

Deccan Chronicle  

MALAPPURAM: The master plan for the expansion of the Calicut International Airport in Karippur has gone through a sea change by compromising the estimated land requirement. The airport has proposed significant expansion of the runway along with meeting all the mandatory safety requirements by acquiring only 96 acres of land instead of 458 acres as per the earlier master plan …

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Two "serious incidents" at Schiphol in 2nd quarter
7 years, 7 months ago

Two "serious incidents" at Schiphol in 2nd quarter

NL Times  

The Dutch Safety Board investigated two "serious incidents" at Schiphol airport in the last quarter. One involved a so-called tail strike, the second a plane being given permission to take off while a bird watch vehicle was still on the runway, NU.nl reports. On May 31st, the air traffic control tower authorized a Canadair Regional Jet CRJ-900 to get ready …

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September deadline looks tough for KIAL
7 years, 10 months ago

September deadline looks tough for KIAL

Deccan Chronicle  

Mattanur: The Kannur International Airport Limited has a tough task on hand with a lot of work to be completed to meet the deadline for the launch of the airport by September. “Works are rapidly progressing to meet the deadline,” said K.S Shibu Kumar, KIAL Project Engineer. “The completion of the safety area at the end of the runway before …

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