Flight Safety Information - June 22, 2021 No. 124 In This Issue : Incident: Lufthansa A320 at Rhodes on Jun 19th 2021, rejected takeoff : Incident: Inuit DH8C at Montreal on Jun 16th 2021, hydraulic leak : Incident: Azul A20N near Belo Horizonte on Jun 17th 2021, hydraulic leak : Delta aims to hire over 1,000 pilots by next summer -memo : Wearing a mask on the airplane keeps others safe, and it’s the law. Get used to it. : POSITION AVAILABLE: Aerospace (Pro Pilot), Tenure-Track Faculty Incident: Lufthansa A320 at Rhodes on Jun 19th 2021, rejected takeoff A Lufthansa Airbus A320-200, registration D-AIWF performing flight LH-1749 from Rhodes (Greece) to Munich (Germany), was accelerating for takeoff from Rhodes' runway 25 when the crew rejected takeoff at high speed (about 120 knots over ground). The aircraft slowed safely and stopped on the runway. Emergency services responded. A ground observer reported the A320 had stopped on runway 25 about abeam taxiway C with speedbrakes extended, fire engines in attendance. A short time later the aircraft taxied to the apron, where a number of people including one of the pilots looked after the right hand engine (CFM56). A runway inspection was conducted, stopped about 1200 feet down the runway and checked the location carefully. The people at the aircraft now also looked into the left hand engine, opened the gear doors and checked the gear. The occurrence aircraft remained on the ground for about 2:20 hours after the rejected takeoff, then departed and reached Munich with a delay of 2 hours. http://www.avherald.com/h?article=4e938ac6&opt=0 Incident: Inuit DH8C at Montreal on Jun 16th 2021, hydraulic leak An Air Inuit de Havilland Dash 8-300, registration C-FEAI performing flight 3H-802 from Montreal,QC to Kuujjuarapik,QC (Canada) with 13 passengers and 3 crew, was climbing out of Montreal when the crew stopped the climb at 4000 feet and requested to return to Montreal due to the loss of hydraulic fluid from the #2 system. The crew declared emergency, worked the related checklists and landed safely back on Montreal's runway 24 about 35 minutes after departure. The Canadian TSB reported the aircraft vacated the runway onto taxiway A2 and was subsequently towed to the apron. The aircraft returned to service about 28 hours after landing back. http://www.avherald.com/h?article=4e9383cb&opt=0 Incident: Azul A20N near Belo Horizonte on Jun 17th 2021, hydraulic leak An Azul Linhas Aereas Airbus A320-200N, registration PR-YRV performing flight AD-4332 from Sao Paulo Virapcopos,SP to Recife,PE (Brazil) with 173 passengers and 6 crew, was enroute at FL370 about 110nm northeast of Belo Horizonte,MG (Brazil) when the crew received a "HYD Y SYS RSVR LO LVL" message, worked the related checklists and decided to divert to Belo Horizonte for a safe landing on runway 16 about 30 minutes later. Brazil's CENIPA reported the crew declared emergency due to the loss of nose wheel steering, burned off fuel and landed without further incident vacating the runway. The aircraft was towed to the apron after stopping on the taxiway. The aircraft returned to service after about 12 hours on the ground. http://www.avherald.com/h?article=4e937c8b&opt=0 Delta aims to hire over 1,000 pilots by next summer -memo June 21 (Reuters) - Delta Air Lines Inc (DAL.N) aims to hire more than 1,000 pilots by next summer, according to a company memo reviewed by Reuters on Monday. Several other U.S. carriers have also said they plan to hire more pilots and staff. Delta expects U.S. leisure travel volume this month to return to pre-pandemic levels and is seeing more business travelers return to the skies, Chief of Operations John Laughter wrote to operations employees. On Sunday, the U.S. screened 2.1 million air travelers -- the highest number since March 2020 when COVID-19 slashed demand but still down 23% from pre-pandemic levels. Airlines are preparing for more travelers. After heavy losses in 2020, Delta has said it expects to generate a pre-tax profit in the second half of 2021, with a re-opening of corporate America by Labor Day in early September. "The fact that we expect to record a profit in June - just 15 months after the sharpest decline in aviation history - is remarkable," Laughter said in his employee note. He sounded a note of caution on the timing for building back its international network, however, but cited "welcome openings in markets like Spain, France, Italy and Greece." The Atlanta-based carrier anticipates travel restrictions easing across the Atlantic in the second half of 2021, Laughter added. American Airlines (AAL.O) said Monday it intends "to resume pilot hiring this fall with approximately 300 new pilots joining us by the end of the year and double that number in 2022." Southwest Airlines (LUV.N) still has about 500 pilots participating in its voluntary leave program but the airline said Monday it "anticipates hiring first officers" later this year "to support the airline’s 2022 operations and scheduled aircraft deliveries." Chicago-based United Airlines (UAL.O) aims to start adding some 300 new pilot hires in the coming weeks, but hiring beyond that would depend "to some degree on the speed at which we recover from the pandemic," a spokesman said. United more broadly aims to hire some 10,000 pilots by 2030, the spokesman, Charles Hobart, added. https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/delta-says-it-is-hiring-more-than-1000-pilots-by-next-summer-memo-2021-06-21/ Wearing a mask on the airplane keeps others safe, and it’s the law. Get used to it. Author: Larry Persily When I was a kid, if my brothers or I acted up while on a family drive — six people packed into a sedan, without air-conditioning and long before the days of spacious minivans — our dad would do like so many of his generation. He would keep one hand on the steering wheel, turn his head toward the back seat, and announce in a menacing voice: “If you don’t stop that, I’ll put a stop to it.” We knew how he intended to stop our bickering, so we usually quieted down and behaved. Today’s version of that childish behavior is playing out aboard airlines nationwide, though far too many passengers are angrier and more disruptive than my brothers and I ever were. Unlike my dad, however, the pilots and flight attendants can’t threaten to raise their hands against the passengers. Instead, all too often, passengers are raising their hands against flight attendants, such as the 28-year-old woman aboard a Southwest Airlines flight last month who knocked out a flight attendant’s teeth. “The passenger repeatedly ignored standard inflight instructions and became verbally and physically abusive upon landing,” an airline spokesman said. The passenger was charged with a felony. The flight attendant went to the hospital. Though most attacks are not nearly so violent, airlines have filed 2,900 reports of unruly passenger behavior since Jan. 1, according to the Federal Aviation Administration last week. About 2,200 of those were passengers who would not comply with the federal pandemic mandate to wear a face covering, the FAA told The Washington Post. The problem is getting worse. Of those reports, about 400 came in over three weeks at the end of May and early June, the FAA reported. Every airline is having trouble with passengers who don’t think the rules apply to them. As of late April, Alaska Airlines had barred more than 500 passengers for violating the face-covering requirement, including state Sen. Lora Reinbold, an Eagle River Republican who relied heavily on social media to spread her gospel against face masks and many other government rules during the pandemic. “It’s pervasive. There is constant conflict on board,” Sara Nelson, international president of the Association of Flight Attendants, told the Post. Cloudless skies and on-time arrivals should be pervasive, not passengers who think they have a right to make a political stand while sitting at 35,000 feet. The country’s political divisions aren’t helping, Nelson said, explaining that flight attendants have seen regional patterns to bad behavior. “There tends to be greater incidents where you are flying out of a place where local and state leaders have said that the pandemic is a hoax, that masks are not necessary, all of those things,” she told the newspaper. A portion of the traveling public feels “emboldened” to ignore instructions from authorities, Jeff Price, a professor of aviation management at Metropolitan State University of Denver, told the Post. “Even though those are the rules, they feel that they’re exempt from those rules for whatever reason,” he said. Wearing a face mask on an airplane is the law. So is wearing a seatbelt in your car. The difference being that if you have an accident without wearing your seatbelt, you’re the victim. If you unknowingly spread COVID-19 because you refuse to mask up in an airplane, innocent fellow passengers and crew are the victims. Anti-mask public officials make it worse by turning the pandemic into a social-media debate about personal freedoms, encouraging unruly behavior. Air travel safety isn’t about personal freedoms. It is about following the law, wearing a damn mask for a few hours and then enjoying the rest of your day. If that’s too much, then don’t fly. That’s what my dad would have said. https://www.adn.com/opinions/2021/06/21/wearing-a-mask-on-the-airplane-keeps-others-safe-and-its-the-law-get-used-to-it/ Subject: POSITION AVAILABLE: Aerospace (Pro Pilot), Tenure-Track Faculty Middle Tennessee State University Position: Aerospace (Pro Pilot), Tenure-Track Faculty MTSU seeks candidates who are committed to innovative teaching, robust research/creative activity and meaningful service. We also seek to attract a culturally and academically diverse faculty who value working with a diverse student body. Salary and rank commensurate with education and experience. The Department of Aerospace at Middle Tennessee State University invites applicants for two tenure-track faculty positions (#101220 and #117010) at the rank of assistant/associate professor. Start date for the positions is August 1, 2021. Positions contingent upon funding. Successful candidates will be expected to teach classes in the Professional Pilot concentration, undertake collaborative and multi-disciplinary research within the department and university, and be actively involved in university and professional service. A Master’s degree in Aerospace, Aviation or closely related field by appointment date is required. Applicants are required to also have: 1) FAA Commercial, Multi-Engine and valid Flight Instructor Certificates (CFI, CFII, MEI) OR 2) FAA ATP Certificate and valid Flight Instructor Certificates (CFI, CFII, MEI). Candidates who possess industry or collegiate teaching experience and those with a doctorate or ABD in Aerospace, Aviation, Education, Business, or other industry-related field will receive special consideration. In order to successfully apply, applicants are required to include a cover letter, their curriculum vitae, a statement of teaching philosophy, and their Research Statement at the time of online application submittal. NOTE: In addition to the REQUIRED documents listed above for successful application, applicants must include copies of FAA Certifications held attached as Other Document 1. To apply, go to: https://careers.mtsu.edu/en-us/job/495335/aerospace-pro-pilot-tenuretrack-faculty. If you need help in applying, please contact the Faculty Recruitment Specialist at (615) 898-5128. If you have position specific questions, please contact Tyler Babb at Tyler.Babb@mtsu.edu. MTSU is an equal opportunity, affirmative action employer that values diversity in all its forms. Women, minorities, individuals with disabilities and protected veterans are encouraged to apply. Proof of U.S. citizenship or eligibility for U.S. employment will be required prior to employment (Immigration Control Act of 1986). Clery Act crime statistics for MTSU available at http://www.mtsu.edu/police/docs/2020AnnualSecurityReport.pdf or by contacting MTSU Public Safety at (615-898-2424. MTSU is a drug free campus. This position requires a criminal background check. Therefore, you may be required to provide information about your criminal history in order to be considered for this position. For individuals requiring a reasonable accommodation to apply: In compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act Amendments Act (ADAAA), if you have a disability and would like to request an accommodation in order to apply for a position with MTSU, please call 615-898-2929 or email emp@mtsu.edu. Curt Lewis