Flight Safety Information May 8, 2014 - No. 094 In This Issue Strong Currents Could Bury Missing Jet: Expert Report: Jet Landed Long in Jamaica Crash Landing White House: Climate change may flood airports Singapore Airlines gets new CEO at troubled Tiger Air FAA investigating LaGuardia bird strike PRISM SMS Report: Pentagon Paid $150 Per Gallon for Green Jet Fuel Pilots battle against 'Walmart-ing' of airline industry Inmarsat Chief Exec Blasts Iridium Plans in Maritime Safety, Air Navigation ERAU Unmanned Aircraft Systems Short Course, Seattle Campus Graduate Research Survey Upcoming Events Strong Currents Could Bury Missing Jet: Expert Strong currents could bury the wreckage from the missing Malaysia Airlines jet, a leading British oceanographer has warned. "They won't be strong enough to rip an aircraft off the seabed and move it along but what they can do is bury the aircraft," said Dr. Simon Boxall at the University of Southampton. "Where they are looking is like the foothills of a mountain, only underwater," he added. "You can have strong currents or what we call gravitational flows pulling earth or other debris off that mountain." An international panel of experts will re-examine all data gathered in the nearly two-month hunt for the missing Malaysia jet to ensure search crews who have been scouring a desolate patch of ocean for the plane have been looking in the right place. Starting Wednesday, that data will be re-analyzed and combined with all information gathered thus far in the search, which hasn't turned up a single piece of debris despite crews scouring more 1.8 million square miles of ocean. http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/missing-jet/strong-currents-could-bury-missing-jet-expert-n98251 Back to Top Report: Jet Landed Long in Jamaica Crash Landing KINGSTON, Jamaica May 7, 2014 (AP) - An investigation into a plane accident almost five years ago at a Jamaican airport has concluded that an American Airlines jet flying in from Miami botched the landing and the flight crew may have been fatigued. On Dec. 22, 2009, an American Airlines plane overshot a rain-drenched runway at the seaside Norman Manley International Airport in Kingston and split apart after plowing through a perimeter fence and skidding across a road. The Boeing 737-823 came to rest on sand dunes and rocks a short distance from the waters of the Caribbean Sea. The jetliner was destroyed, its fuselage broken into three sections and the right wing's tanks spilling jet fuel. All 154 people aboard survived, but 14 had serious injuries, though not life-threatening. The Jamaica Civil Aviation Authority issued its final report on the incident this week, posting it on the agency's website Tuesday. "The investigation involved a number of very involved processes," agency spokeswoman Ava Marie Ingram said Wednesday in explaining why it took the aviation authority so long to issue its conclusions. Among other findings, the report said the experienced flight crew decided to land in heavy rain on a wet runway with a tail wind close to the landing limit. They were not aware of a standing water warning for the airport's runways in manuals, the investigation found. The report found the crew did not do an adequate landing distance assessment and crossed the runway threshold 20 feet (six meters) above the ideal height, touching down farther along the runway than it should have. Descending through cloud cover, the flight crew "were possibly fatigued after being on duty for nearly 12 hours, and awake for more than 14 hours," the report said. Ingram said the report was sent to the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board. American Airlines did not immediately respond to an email seeking comment. http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/report-jet-landed-long-jamaica-crash-landing-23628090 Back to Top White House: Climate change may flood airports WASHINGTON - Twelve of the country's 47 largest airports are vulnerable to storm surges that are expected to increase from climate change, according to a White House report released earlier this week. The U.S. National Climate Assessment released Tuesday warned that coastal airports with at least one runway 12 feet or less above sea level could suffer flooding during moderate to high storm surges. The report noted that metro New York's big three airports - John F. Kennedy, LaGuardia and Newark - already flooded in October 2012 during the 14-foot tidal surge from Hurricane Sandy. LaGuardia closed for three days. LaGuardia already maintains a dike and pumps for floodwaters, according to a 2002 Transportation Department report cited in the White House report. "Many coastal airports are vulnerable to flooding," the 2002 report noted from a California assessment about airports built on swamps in San Francisco and Oakland. "Extreme high tides, coupled with flood conditions, can reach close to the existing levels." Sea levels are projected to rise 1 to 4 feet this century, and more frequent storms from climate change could either flood runways or force construction of expensive barriers, the report said. The damage from Hurricane Sandy served as a wake-up call for airports to protect against flooding, said Chris Oswald, vice president of safety and regulatory affairs for Airports Council International-North America. For example, the New Orleans airport had restructured before Hurricane Katrina hit in 2005, and the building and runways avoided flooding. General airport strategies include building berms to keep water out, installing drains and pumps to remove water and adding insulation to protect lighting from seawater, Oswald said. But costs have to be weighed against other priorities, such as coping with earthquakes on the West Coast, he said. "You're putting this in context of other risks in your business," Oswald said. "The question is how do we bring equipment back online as quickly as possible." New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has announced $37.5 million in improvements for LaGuardia, saying "the question is not if another storm will hit, but when." The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey is working at LaGuardia and Kennedy airports to move electrical and mechanical equipment to higher ground, to acquire more pumps and generators to minimize flooding and to install more flood-protection barriers, according to spokesman Ron Marsico. Airports in Oakland and San Francisco are studying how to buttress facilities against storm surges. Oakland expects to complete this year its design and environmental review of dike improvements that are part of a $10 million, five-year improvement program, according to spokesman Mona Hernandez. http://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/news/2014/05/07/airport-flooding-climate-change-white-house- report/8804761/ Back to Top Singapore Airlines gets new CEO at troubled Tiger Air (Reuters) - Tiger Airways Ltd (TAHL.SI) is replacing its chief executive officer with a Singapore Airlines Ltd's (SIAL.SI) board member, in a sign that its largest shareholder will wield greater influence at the troubled budget carrier. Wednesday's move comes less than a week after Tiger reported losses ballooned in its last financial year and as Singapore Airlines, which owns 40 percent of Tiger, pushes a strategy of expanding its exposure to the fast-growing Asia Pacific market and the low-cost segment. "They'll try to see where Tiger fits into all this and make better sense of what is happening and how different they can go forward in that particular segment," said Sagar Ashok, an aerospace consultant at Frost & Sullivan. Lee Lik Hsin, a 20-year veteran of Singapore Airlines, will become chief executive from May 12, Tiger said in a statement on Monday. He will replace Koay Peng Yen who joined Tiger from the shipping industry less than two years ago. Tiger is one of two budget airlines within the Singapore Airlines group, which also has a medium-haul unit, SilkAir, and its namesake premium long-haul carrier service. Unlike Scoot, its fully owned medium to long-haul budget airline, and SilkAir, Tiger has always operated as an independent entity. "The group will align all these airlines so as to have a coherent strategy going forward. So each airline benefits from the other airline and they really don't compete on routes, have flight schedules which go hand in hand with the other airlines and things like that," said Ashok. Unlike bigger rivals such as AirAsia Bhd (AIRA.KL) and other low cost airlines including Qantas Airways Ltd-owned (QAN.AX) Jetstar and Garuda-owned (GIAA.JK) Citilink, Tiger has scaled down its ventures in highly competitive markets to cut losses. Under Koay, Tiger sold its loss making Philippine business and said last week that it was reviewing its investment in its Indonesian joint venture. "During his tenure, the Tigerair Group endeavored to improve the fortunes of its overseas cubs, Tigerair Australia, Tigerair Philippines and Tigerair Mandala. However, turbulence in those markets hampered fledgling carriers from establishing a decisive hold," Tiger said in a statement. Last week, Tiger said its losses widened to S$223 million ($179 million) in the year ended March from S$45.4 million a year ago as it booked charges and accounted for losses from its operations in countries including Indonesia and Australia. Just a year ago, Tiger had highlighted its growing operations at home and ventures in Indonesia and the Philippines when it raised nearly S$300 million to expand its business and strengthen its balance sheet. http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/05/07/us-tiger-air-ceo-idUSBREA4605020140507 Back to Top FAA investigating LaGuardia bird strike A United Airlines Airbus 320 from Chicago struck a bird on its final approach to LaGuardia Airport Wednesday, the Federal Aviation Administration said. The pilot safely landed the plane at 11:06 a.m., and the crew reported no injuries, said the FAA, which is investigating the incident. The agency said there have been at least five bird strikes at LaGuardia so far this year. The most famous bird strike involved US Airways Flight 1549, which ditched in the Hudson River after Canada geese disabled both engines. The 155 passengers and crew aboard the aircraft survived. http://www.amny.com/news/faa-investigating-laguardia-bird-strike-1.7952192 Back to Top Back to Top Report: Pentagon Paid $150 Per Gallon for Green Jet Fuel GAO report notes exorbitant prices act as de facto subsidy for biofuel firms The Department of Defense (DOD) paid $150 per gallon for alternative jet fuel made from algae, more than 64 times the current market price for standard carbon-based fuels, according to a report released on Wednesday. The Government Accountability Office (GAO) noted in its report that a Pentagon official reported paying "about $150 per gallon for 1,500 gallons of alternative jet fuel derived from algal oil." GAO's report examined the financial challenges facing increased purchases and use of alternative jet fuels by federal agencies. "Currently, the price for alternative jet fuels exceeds that of conventional jet fuel," the report noted. The price for conventional jet fuel is currently $2.88 per gallon. GAO's report reveals that federal agencies have paid significantly higher prices in an effort to promote biofuels in commercial and military aviation. "Of the two alternative jet-fuel production processes approved for use in commercial and military aircraft (Fischer-Tropsch and HEFA), DOD, according to a DOD official, paid from about $3 to $150 per gallon," GAO reported. HEFA is an acronym for Hydroprocessed Esters and Fatty Acids, and refers to "renewable oil (e.g., vegetable oils, animal fat, waste grease, and algae oil) ... processed using hydrogen treatment (hydroprocessing) to yield a fuel in the distillation range of jet fuel and diesel." GAO interviewed 23 "academic, federal government, and private industry stakeholders" about challenges facing the increased adoption of alternative jet fuels. Twenty-two of them cited the fuels' exorbitant costs. "Five of these stakeholders noted that for fuel produced using the HEFA production process, the cost of some types of feedstock-even before it is transported or converted-currently exceeds that of conventional fuel," the report says. HEFA and other alternative jet fuels are currently produced in large measure by small firms that do not have the economies of scale to manufacture them in a cost-effective way. To address that problem, federal agencies have been buying extremely expensive alternative fuels as a means of subsidizing those firms. "Some stakeholders (5 of 23) elaborated that since most fuel producers are generally companies with limited funds and small-scale operations, it is extremely costly for them to produce fuel in large quantities," the report noted. Purchasing HEFA fuels, some stakeholders said, would allow those businesses to grow their operations and, eventually, market alternative jet fuels at a lower price. However, those HEFA fuels will still need to be subsidized to be competitive, GAO noted, citing a recent Federal Aviation Administration study. "Alternative jet fuels produced on a commercial scale using the HEFA process would require a subsidy of $0.35 to $2.86 per gallon to be price-competitive with conventional jet fuels in 2020," the report found. The Pentagon has previously come under fire for paying exorbitant prices for aviation biofuels. Reuters reported in 2012 that the Air Force had purchased 11,000 of alcohol-based jet fuel for $59 per gallon from a Colorado-based biofuel company. That company, Gevo Inc., was backed financially by high-dollar Democratic donor Vinod Khosla, who has invested in a number of companies that have received federal support from the Obama administration. A week before that story broke, the Navy spent $26 per gallon to fuel its Great Green Fleet during the 2012 Rim of the Pacific exercise. The $150-per-gallon DOD reportedly paid for HEFA fuels would dwarf those previous purchases, which came under fire from critics of the Obama administration's green energy push. "Though some energy technologies that are too expensive for general civilian use may make sense for the military, biofuels are not among them," wrote Heritage Foundation senior energy policy analyst David Kreutzer in 2012. "The military needs to rethink its biofuels program." http://freebeacon.com/national-security/report-pentagon-paid-150-per-gallon-for-green-jet-fuel/ Back to Top Pilots battle against 'Walmart-ing' of airline industry A Norwegian-named airline based in Ireland that employs Thailand-based crews through a Singaporean pilot supply company? It's a new world for airlines, and industry incumbents are fighting back. A Norwegian Air Shuttle aircraft at the Oslo airport FORTUNE -- Readers of the Washington Post may run across a full-page ad this week that implores them to "Deny NAI." That somewhat cryptic message is part of a seven-figure ad campaign by the Air Line Pilots Association, International -- the group's latest attempt to keep Norwegian Air Shuttle, Europe's third-largest budget carrier, from bringing its low-cost model to the United States as Norwegian Air International. Norwegian says the "misleading" and "dishonest" campaign simply shows that American airlines and pilots are afraid of competition. But industry groups here say they're up for more competition, so long as it doesn't come in the form Norwegian Air wants to take: a Norwegian-named airline based in Ireland that employs Thailand-based crews through a Singaporean pilot supply company. "We're fine with competition as long as it's on a level playing field," Michael Robbins, the Pilots Association's director of government affairs, told Fortune. The discount airline currently operates a long-haul business and even flies between Oslo and New York's Kennedy Airport under a temporary permit issued by the government in Norway. To offer additional flights between Europe and the U.S., Norwegian filed a still-pending application for a permanent permit with the U.S. Department of Transportation in December. Robbins says the Pilots Association rarely opposes permit applications, but it took issue with Norwegian's filing because the airline decided to move its long-haul business from Oslo to Dublin, Ireland earlier this year. It filed its permit application with the Department of Transportation as a "foreign air carrier of Ireland" even though it offers no flights to or from the country. The Pilots Association has painted the move as part of a scheme by Norwegian Air to evade Norway's strict labor laws and its collective bargaining requirements. Ireland has weaker labor laws that will allow the airline to keep labor costs low by outsourcing its crew to Asia -- a strategy that ran aground of Norway's stricter regulations. "At bottom, [Norwegian] seek[s] to establish a new flag of convenience in Ireland to avoid Norway's labor laws and lower labor costs," Delta Air Lines (DAL), United Airlines (UAL), and American Airlines (AAL) said in a joint letter to the Transportation Department. "That's why we're calling it Walmarting," says Edward Wytkind, president of the Transportation Trades Department of the AFL-CIO, which represents airline industry unions. "This could dumb down labor standards to the point where it's hard to make a living wage in the airline industry." Norwegian, meanwhile, says it moved its long-haul business to access future air traffic rights between the EU (Norway is not a member) and Asia, Africa, and South America. Another reason: Ireland plans to fully adopt the 2001 Cape Town Treaty, which created international standards for transactions involving movable property like airplanes. But the Pilots Association argues that the airline is labor law venue shopping, which is prohibited by the U.S.-EU Air Transport Agreement that Norwegian cited when filing its permit application. The 2007 agreement gives airlines in the U.S. and EU member states, and some additional country signatories -- including Norway -- the right to freely fly across each other's borders. Norwegian "wants to operate outside the rules of the agreement at the same time they try to use the benefits afforded by the agreement," Wytkind says. The big bucks the Pilots Association plans to spend on its campaign against Norwegian illustrates just how much is at stake for the American airline industry. The approval of Norwegian's air carrier permit would "set a new precedent for flag of convenience schemes to be set up elsewhere in Europe," Robbins says. "Other airlines could move out of countries with strict labor laws to countries with lax laws, and that's explicitly what we wanted to prevent with the U.S.-EU Agreement." The Pilots Association has drawn a parallel between the risk Norwegian poses and what's happened to the U.S. maritime industry, which allows a vessel to be registered in a country different from its ownership and operate under the laws of the country of registry. "The practice precipitated the decline of the industry and the loss of tens of thousands of U.S. maritime jobs, as companies flew the flag of countries with the weakest labor and tax laws and regulations," the association said in a statement. A Norwegian spokesman, meanwhile, insists that the backlash it faces is all about the competition and industry upheaval it represents: "It's obvious that they don't want the American public to get access to inexpensive airfares to Europe." http://management.fortune.cnn.com/2014/05/08/pilots-norwegian-air-labor/ Back to Top Inmarsat Chief Exec Blasts Iridium Plans in Maritime Safety, Air Navigation Inmarsat CEO Rupert Pearce said Iridium's current network is incapable of providing the minimum reliability required by the International Maritime Organization, and that Iridium has yet to demonstrate it can fully finance and deploy its second-generation constellation. Credit: Inmarsat photo PARIS - Mobile satellite services provider Inmarsat on May 7 said competitor Iridium's renewed attempt to become certified as a maritime distress signal provider is "utterly inappropriate" and that allowing Iridium to offer such a service would put lives at risk. In unusually stark, even violent, terms, Inmarsat's usually measured chief executive, Rupert Pearce, said Iridium's current network is incapable of providing the minimum reliability required by the International Maritime Organization, and that Iridium has yet to demonstrate it can fully finance and deploy its second- generation constellation. In an unrelated jab at Iridium's planned Aireon air-navigation service, Pearce said Inmarsat stands ready, immediately, to offer global airlines a minute-by-minute positioning service that will permit fuel savings in addition to helping avoid another incident such as the disappearance, presumably in midocean, of Malaysian Airlines Flight 370. In a conference call with investors, Pearce said Inmarsat's gear is already installed on more than 80 percent of all commercial aircraft traversing the world's oceans, and that the technology to deliver aircraft black-box data to the Internet through real-time streaming is available now as well. McLean, Virginia-based Iridium's Aireon subsidiary is developing a business based on providing Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) terminals on all 72 second-generation Iridium satellites set for launch between 2015 and 2017. Aireon's business model calls for the airlines to pay Aireon a fee that would come from the potentially large savings in aviation fuel costs that would flow from the Aireon service. Pearce said ADS-B is not good enough, and that a two-way service, ADS-C - the C stands for Communications - is where the world's commercial airlines should be headed. The International Civil Aviation Organization has scheduled a meeting on global tracking of aircraft May 12-13 at its Montreal headquarters. Inmarsat spokesman Christopher McLaughlin said the company would be presenting a detailed set of proposals to the meeting. "We're working with regulators," Pearce said. "We are willing to make the investments and upgrades on our network to support free basic position reporting on aircraft crossing the oceans - to take cost out of the equation and to make a commitment to aviation safety. "We will provide enhanced position reporting services to provide more timely information, richer information about an aircraft. We will be able, essentially, to provide a black box-streaming off aircraft based on certain trigger events that would allow you to reach back to find out what was on the flight data recorder up to the point when you have your event, and then track, in real time, thereafter [to] provide situational awareness." Pearce said an ADS-B network would be insufficient. "When the dot disappears from your [ADS-B] network, you have absolutely no intel," Pearce said, adding that in addition to enhanced safety, the ADS-C solution would offer fuel savings that ultimately should reduce passenger ticket prices. Inmarsat's beef with Iridium, fueled by the two companies' direct competition in land-based, maritime and aeronautical satellite communications services, in the past has been limited to questions about whether Iridium's current 66-satellite constellation in low Earth orbit will survive to 2017-2018, when the second- generation Iridium Next network is scheduled to become available. Iridium recently told investors that it had lost its 10th satellite since 2001 - nine from in-orbit failures, one from an in-orbit collision with a dead Russian satellite - and that its ability to replace failed satellites with in-orbit spares was coming to an end. The company said not all of its 66 operational satellites are operating at 100 percent all the time. Inmarsat has produced its own assessment of Iridium reliability, saying it varies from 96.5 percent to around 99 percent. Pearce said he has it on good authority that, in human-lifespan terms, Iridium's constellation is 200 years old. Not for the first time, he said Inmarsat is winning business from Iridium customers who are not satisfied with the latter's service reliability. With assistance from a Boeing team in Leesburg, Virginia, Iridium has disproved longstanding predictions from some quarters that its constellation was about to collapse. Aided by outside analyses, the company continues to tell investors and others that the current satellites will be able to function until the new- generation satellites are in service. The U.S. Defense Department apparently is a believer, having signed on last October for another five years of Iridium services in a contract valued at $400 million. Iridium has for several years said it would seek certification as a provider of Global Maritime Distress and Safety System (GMDSS) services, for which certification is required from the International Maritime Organization (IMO). IMO's resolution 1001, passed in November 2007, stipulates that GMDSS service providers must assure network reliability levels of 99.9 percent, meaning no more than 8.8 hours of down time in a given year. Inmarsat remains the sole GMDSS provider. Iridium would like GMDSS certification. Backed by the U.S. Coast Guard, it submitted a request to the IMO in April. It is this proposal that set Pearce off on a broadside of rare intensity, even in the highly competitive mobile satellite services business. An Inmarsat official said Pearce's remarks were delivered extemporaneously and were not prearranged for the conference call. "While we obviously welcome competition and innovation around GMDSS and safety services generally, the most important thing is that the standards of quality for safety services are maintained, if not enhanced," Pearce said. "Fundamental to that is 99.99 percent availability on your network. We do not believe that Iridium even comes close to that level of performance. As such, it is utterly inappropriate that they should even apply, let alone be granted accreditation. "Lives will be lost if people install that equipment and it's not available when they need it. In the context of a safety service, as opposed to a commercial service, the consequences are ghastly to think about. "We will be asking the regulators to wait until much further down the road, when alternative networks may be up and may deliver that kind of availability before they think about foisting that kind of service on a mariner out there in the ocean needing help. The rules are there to support, crucially, safety of life at sea. It's not something you should knock about with. As we've seen in the aviation context, these services, when they're needed, are utterly crucial." Asked to comment, an Iridium spokeswoman said the company is in a no-comment period required because it is in the middle of a campaign to raise capital from investors. http://www.spacenews.com/article/satellite-telecom/40489inmarsat-chief-exec-blasts-iridium-plans-in- maritime-safety-air Back to Top View this email in a web page TWO-DAY CONTINUING EDUCATION UNIT (CEU) COURSE UAS Applications, Operations and Support: Key Topics of Industry This two-day, continuing education unit (CEU) course is specifically designed for professionals and specialists seeking to expand their understanding of the application, operation and support of unmanned aircraft systems (UAS). Discussions will focus on the considerations, regulations, policies, business opportunities and challenges of the industry. This course is developed and taught by Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University-Worldwide faculty with UAS operations and research experience. Who Should Attend: ? Business Developers ? Executive Leadership ? 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Here is the link to the survey https://cranfielduniversity.eu.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_1Tf2GY6mkpyR8Il Many thanks Pete Wilson MSc Student and Airline Training Captain Back to Top Upcoming Events: Airport Show Dubai May 11-13, 2014 Dubai International Convention and Exhibition Centre (DICEC) www.theairportshow.com/portal/home.aspx International Humanitarian Aviation Summit 12-14MAY Toledo, Spain www.wfp.org National Safety Council Aviation Safety Committee Annual Conference Savanah, GA - May 14-15, 2014 Contact: tammy.washington@nsc.org http://cwp.marriott.com/savdt/artexmeeting/ Embry-Riddle to offer Aviation SMS Workshop Daytona Beach, FL May 20-22, 2014 www.erau.edu/case ICAO Loss of Control In-Flight Symposium 20-22 May 2014 - Montreal www.icao.int/meetings/loci Asia Pacific Aviation Safety Seminar 21-22 May 2014, Bangkok, Thailand http://bit.ly/APASS2014 SMS & Risk Management Training Tampa, FL June 4-5, 2014 http://atcvantage.com ERAU Unmanned Aircraft Systems Short Course Seattle, WA June 5-6, 2014 http://proed.erau.edu/programs/specialized-industry-training/unmanned-aircraft-systems-workshop-nv/index.html 6th Annual Aviation Human Factors & SMS Seminar June 24th & 25th 2014 Dallas, TX www.regonline.com/builder/site/Default.aspx?EventID=1384474 21st Century Pilot Reliability Certification Workshop June 30th and July 1st, 2014 Hasbrouck Heights, NJ 07605 Please contact Kacy Schwartz kacy@convergentperformance.com 719-481-0530 International System Safety Society Annual Symposium 04-08AUG2014 - St. Louis, MO http://issc2014.system-safety.org Curt Lewis