Flight Safety Information September 5, 2013 - No. 184 In This Issue Flight Safety Foundation to Highlight Pressing Safety Issues and Upcoming Summit at Press Briefing Two dead as light aircraft crashes into Channel Islands Boeing: China needs 5,580 new aircraft over next 20 years China developing high speed helicopters FAA finalizes aircraft privacy policy Embry-Riddle to Host Workshop on Aviation Safety Management Systems Think ARGUS PROS IFA - Technical Workshop and Forum 26 & 27th November - Hong Kong New Bombardier jet readied for possible weekend debut Flight Safety Foundation to Highlight Pressing Safety Issues and Upcoming Summit at Press Briefing WHAT: In light of three recent high-profile commercial aircraft incidents, all in the approach and landing phase, the Flight Safety Foundation (FSF) - aviation's impartial, independent and international safety source - will highlight the following topics during a September 17 breakfast press briefing: * International Air Safety Summit - The 66th Annual IASS, aviation's premier safety event, will be held October 29-31 in Washington, DC. Sponsored by the leading aircraft manufacturers and with the full participation of all major stakeholder groups, the IASS provides a forum to identify safety concerns and formulate risk reduction initiatives. Major topics for this year's event include: sharing the skies with remotely piloted aircraft, factors that lead to runway excursions, pilot fatigue management and fostering a safety culture. The Summit will also feature a keynote speech from NTSB Board Member Earl Weener titled "Is Safety Cyclical?" Although airlines generally operate with an improving safety record, some accident causes seem to recur, often unexpectedly, thus prompting the question whether they need to be readdressed. * Go-Around Study - On average, 96% of un-stabilized approaches do not result in a go-around. Data and anecdotal information are showing there are increased exceedances in aircraft performance and ATC instruction violation rates. The Foundation's International Advisory and European Advisory Committees are currently conducting a survey of go-arounds and facilitating dialogue on LinkedIn. Representatives from the EAC, which met on June 18 in Brussels, will provide an update at the IASS. A final study will provide guidelines for safe go-around operations. WHO: Capt. Kevin Hiatt - President and Chief Executive Officer, Flight Safety Foundation WHEN: Tuesday, September 17, 2013 - 8:00 AM sign-in/breakfast, 8:30 AM briefing starts WHERE: Murrow Room, National Press Club, 529 14th St. NW, Washington, DC MORE: Flight Safety Foundation (flightsafety.org ) is an independent, non-profit, international organization engaged in research, education, advocacy and publishing to improve aviation safety. Founded in 1947, the Foundation's mission is to be the leading voice of safety for the global aerospace community. Like us facebook/flightsafetyfoundation and follow us @flightsafety. CONTACT: To register for this event, please contact: * Emily McGee, Flight Safety Foundation: mcgee@flightsafety.org or 703-739-6700 x126 * Adam Konowe, TMP Government: adam.konowe@tmpgovernment.com or 703-269-0158 ### Back to Top Two dead as light aircraft crashes into Channel Islands Two people are believed to have died on Wednesday after their light aircraft ditched into the sea off Jersey in the Channel Islands, local police said. The Cessna plane (T303 - Crusader) departed from Dinan, near Rennes in western France. It was bound for Jersey and the victims are thought to be British residents, police said. The mid-morning crash sparked a major air and sea search operation involving helicopters from France and Britain as well as a British navy vessel that was in the area. "Following a comprehensive search and rescue mission... we now believe there were no survivors of this morning's light aircraft crash," the police statement said. "The States of Jersey Police will now be working alongside the Air Accident Investigation Branch (AAIB) to establish what happened." Earlier, a spokesman for the Port of Jersey authority told AFP the plane had crashed into the sea about five miles (eight kilometres) west of Jersey at 10.20 am (0920 GMT). "Some wreckage has been located," he said, adding: "There was a lot of sea fog along the immediate coastal shore this morning, but we don't know if that was the issue." http://www.timeslive.co.za/world/2013/09/04/two-dead-as-light-aircraft-crashes-into-channel-islands ************* Date: 04-SEP-2013 Time: ca 10:15 Type: Cessna T303 Crusader Owner/operator: T303 Inc Trustees (regd. owner)* Registration: N289CW * C/n / msn: T30300032 Fatalities: Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 2 Other fatalities: 0 Airplane damage: Written off (damaged beyond repair) Location: 5 mls W off St. Ouen, Jersey, Channel Islands - United Kingdom Phase: Approach Nature: Private Departure airport: Dinan Trelivan Airport (LFEB) Destination airport: Jersey-States Airport, Channel Islands (JER/EGJJ) Narrative: Two occupants were killed when their Cessna T303 crashed in the English Channel off the island of Jersey. Visibility was poor in the area, with thick fog over sea. Visibility at the airport was fine. Jersey Police reported in a statement that the airplane is a "UK based American registered Cessna". It is thought that air traffic control lost contact with the plane about 20 minutes before it was due to land. Fifteen search and rescue vessels, the Channel Islands Airsearch, a UK rescue helicopter and a French rescue helicopter were scrambled to an area off St Ouen's Bay. Divers spent most of today searching for the wreckage. A statement from Jersey police said: "Following a comprehensive search and rescue mission we now believe there were no survivors. The States of Jersey Police will now be working alongside the Air Accident Investigation Branch to establish what happened." * Registration unconfirmed; news reports indicate this was a Perranporth-based plane. N289CW is a T303 based at Perranporth. METAR report for Jersey Airport at the morning of the accident: EGJJ 041020Z 28004KT 230V310 9999 4000W VCFG FEW001 22/16 Q1021 BECMG 9999 NSW EGJJ 040950Z VRB03KT 9999 4000W VCFG FEW001 21/15 Q1021 BECMG 9999 NSW EGJJ 040920Z VRB03KT 9999 4000W VCFG FEW001 21/15 Q1021 BECMG 9999 NSW EGJJ 040850Z VRB03KT 6000 VCFG NSC 19/16 Q1021 NOSIG EGJJ 040820Z 12005KT 060V130 3500 BR FEW001 17/17 Q1021 BECMG 9000 www.aviation-safety.net Back to Top Boeing: China needs 5,580 new aircraft over next 20 years (Reuters) - China will need 5,580 commercial aircraft worth some $780 billion over the next 20 years, according to a statement released by Boeing Co (BA.N) on Thursday. Tourism in China and within Asia travel will drive the need for single-aisle airplanes, Randy Tinseth, vice president of marketing for Boeing Commercial Airplanes, is quoted as saying in the statement, released at a company event in Beijing. Deliveries in that segment will total 3,900 by 2032, Boeing said. Back to Top China developing high speed helicopters, says country's major aircraft maker China is striving to make helicopters that can achieve speed of up to 500 kilometre per hour, president of Aviation Industry Corporation of China Lin Zuoming said. BEIJING: China is developing helicopters that are twice as fast than the current ones, the country's major aircraft maker said on Thursday. China is striving to make helicopters that can achieve speed of up to 500 kilometre per hour, president of Aviation Industry Corporation of China (AVIC) Lin Zuoming said. "We have been keeping pace with other countries," Lin added. AVIC produces a wide range of helicopters, from ultra-light varieties to high-altitude adaptive helicopters. "We have mastered core technologies of third-generation helicopters," Cai Yi, general manager of AVIC's helicopter company said. AVIC said it has cracked core technologies in key areas like rotors, flight control and avionics. "AVIC civilian helicopters can join the ranks of the world's most advanced," he was quoted as saying by state- run Xinhua news agency. China's helicopter industry has been on a steady rise over the last decade. It is set to enter a critical period in the next three to five years, Cai said. Last month, the ingenuously developed military attack helicopter, WZ-10, launched its first air-to-air missile successfully intercepting low-altitude targets. It carried out the launch during a live-fire drill involving aviation troops of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) in waters off southern China's Guangdong Province. http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/news-by-industry/et-cetera/china-developing-high-speed- helicopters-says-countrys-major-aircraft-maker/articleshow/22331785.cms Back to Top FAA finalizes aircraft privacy policy The FAA has finalized a privacy policy allowing aircraft owners and operators to opt out of public dissemination of flight tracking data. The policy was mandated by Congress after the aviation agency imposed tougher requirements in 2011 for restricting aircraft registration data used by a variety of third-party flight tracking services, prompting protest from the aviation community. AOPA joined National Business Aviation Association officials in protesting the agency's 2011 decision to require owners or operators to provide justification to block the release of near-real-time flight tracking data (based on aircraft registration and radar data) that allowed virtually anyone with a computer to follow an aircraft's travels. Congress responded quickly, requiring the FAA to establish policy and procedures that allow aircraft operators to block the release of aircraft data to third parties, or allow it with limits, without requiring justification based on security concerns. The final policy is essentially unchanged from the policy enacted in May 2012, and takes effect Sept. 20. The FAA provides radar tracking data to vendors through a program known as Aircraft Situation Display to Industry, and owners or operators can request that aircraft data be blocked by contacting the FAA via email or by regular mail to FAA ASDI Blocking Request, ATO System Operation Services, AJR-0, Wilbur Wright Building, Room 3E1500; 600 Independence Ave. SW, Washington, D.C. 20597. The FAA updates its list of blocked aircraft registration numbers on the first Thursday of each month. Owners or operators requesting ASDI blocking should provide their name, contact number, a statement certifying they are a legally authorized representative of the owner or operator, the registration number to be blocked (or unblocked), and specify whether they request blocking at the FAA or industry level. Owners or operators opting to block data at the industry level can contract with ASDI data subscribers individually to authorize limited dissemination of aircraft data. ASDI subscribers who fail to honor a request to block aircraft data risk losing all access to FAA tracking data. http://www.aopa.org/News-and-Video/All-News/2013/September/04/aircraft-privacy-policy.aspx Back to Top Embry-Riddle to Host Workshop on Aviation Safety Management Systems Aug. 30, 2013 - Embry-Riddle's Professional Programs Office will offer a workshop on the Principles of Aviation Safety Management Systems (SMS) Nov. 19-21, 2013, at the Daytona Beach, Fla., campus. Taught by Embry-Riddle faculty, the course is tailored for aviation safety practitioners responsible for the formation, implementation or expansion of an SMS within their organizations. The workshop provides a solid foundation in basic SMS concepts while also covering safety risk management (hazards, risks and controls); human factors; reactive, proactive and predictive safety management tools and methods; positive safety culture; and SMS implementation overview. Those who complete the course will understand the theory, principles and application of an SMS as well as ICAO requirements for implementation and FAA guidance for operators and organizations. All participants will receive a signed copy of Safety Management Systems in Aviation, co-authored by Dr. Alan Stolzer, Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Studies in Embry-Riddle's College of Aviation. The course is $1,400 per person, or $1,300 for those who register before Sept. 30, 2013. For more information and to register, visit www.daytonabeach.erau.edu/sms , write to case@erau.edu or contact Sarah Ochs, Director of Professional Programs, at (386) 226-6928. Back to Top Back to Top Back to Top New Bombardier jet readied for possible weekend debut PARIS (Reuters) - Canada's all-new Bombardier CSeries passenger jet is being readied for a long-awaited maiden flight as early this weekend, possibly on Sunday, two industry sources said. As with all such debuts, the exact timing remains unclear as crew carry out final tests and look for the weather needed to fly the first all-new airliner in its 100- to 149-seat category for decades. But the sources, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they are not authorized to speak publicly, said the delayed debut could be just days away barring further glitches. "There is a high chance that you will have some flight news this weekend, most probably on Sunday (September 8)," one industry source said. Given the stakes involved, it would not however be a surprise if the schedule slipped again by a few days, the sources said. The debut, marking Canada's attempt to break into a market dominated by Airbus and Boeing , edged closer on Wednesday when pilots were due to start high-speed taxi trials. But a Bombardier spokeswoman declined to comment on the timing of the maiden flight to be held in Mirabel, Quebec. The first flight will be the culmination of a five-year, 3.4-billion development program for the CSeries. Montreal-based Bombardier says the aircraft will be lighter and more efficient than other aircraft in the same category. Airbus and Boeing have hit back by putting new engines on their best-selling narrowbody A320 and Boeing 737 models. Bombardier has delayed the new aircraft's maiden flight three times. It said on Friday, however, it had received a flight test permit from industry regulator Transport Canada. A source familiar with the situation said on Friday the CSeries was poised to fly before September 17, when the company is hosting an event to celebrate the maiden voyage. Test pilots and other experts say the exact date of a debut depends on the results of the high-speed taxi tests, landing gear tests and emergency braking, as well as weather conditions. The next few months of flight testing are seen as crucial, test not only for Bombardier but also its engine maker Pratt & Whitney, a unit of United Technologies . The aircraft is powered by a brand-new generation of fuel-saving engines called Geared Turbofan (GTF), which have generated billions of dollars of other aircraft sales worldwide. Their performance could have implications across the industry. Their debut on the CSeries will be closely watched by Airbus which has adopted similar Pratt engines for some of its best-selling A320 jets from 2015, as well as CFM International, Pratt's main competitor in the cut-throat engine market. CFM, jointly owned by General Electric and France's Safran , has developed its own new model of engines called LEAP that will power future Chinese passenger jets as well as all Boeing narrowbody and some Airbus jets. Back to Top Curt Lewis