Flight Safety Information - April 15, 2022 No.075 In This Issue : Incident: ATA MD83 near Isfahan on Apr 12th 2022, engine shut down in flight : Incident: Austrian E195 at Lyon on Apr 14th 2022, indication of unsafe gear : U.S. targets seven Belarus national carrier planes for violating export controls : Call for Nominations For 2022 Laura Taber Barbour Air Safety Award : Safeskies Australia - 2022: Call for papers Incident: ATA MD83 near Isfahan on Apr 12th 2022, engine shut down in flight An ATA Airlines McDonnell Douglas MD-83, registration EP-TAQ performing flight I3-5713 from Kish to Tehran Mehrabad (Iran) with 174 people on board, was enroute near Isfahan when the crew needed to shut one of the engines (JT8D) down due to problems with the fuel supply. The aircraft diverted to Isfahan for a safe landing in Isfahan just before midnight. Iran's CAA reported the aircraft suffered a problem with the fuel supply. The passengers were taken to Tehran by a replacement aircraft. Isfahan Airport reported the aircraft landed with one engine shut down. Iran's AIB reported the aircraft suffered a fuel leak on the left hand engine, the crew shut the engine down. https://www.avherald.com/h?article=4f7626b9&opt=0 Incident: Austrian E195 at Lyon on Apr 14th 2022, indication of unsafe gear An Austrian Airlines Embraer ERJ-195, registration OE-LWG performing flight OS-405 from Vienna (Austria) to Lyon (France), was on approach to Lyon descending through 3500 feet and about to intercept the localizer, when the crew aborted the approach, climbed to 5000 feet MSL and entered a series of 360s. The crew subsequently reported everything was okay, positioned for another approach to Lyon's runway 35L and landed safely about 35 minutes after aborting the first approach and taxied to the apron. The return flight OS-406 was cancelled. The airline reported the crew received an unsafe gear indication. After several checks it was determined the indication was false. The aircraft landed safely. https://www.avherald.com/h?article=4f76d2ad&opt=0 U.S. targets seven Belarus national carrier planes for violating export controls (Reuters) -The U.S. Commerce Department on Thursday confirmed it had identified seven Boeing 737 Planes operated by Belarusian national carrier Belavia that are in apparent violation of U.S. export controls. The seven Belarusian-operated aircraft are the first to be identified since restrictions on Belarus were tightened last week. The Commerce Department said restrictions that bar them from operating services abroad should effectively ground them from future international flights. The list of planes subject to restrictions, imposed since Russia's invasion of Ukraine, now includes 146 Russian-owned or operated aircraft and seven Belarusian aircraft Belavia did not immediately respond to a request for comment. The export controls bar companies around the world from providing any refueling, maintenance, repair, or spare parts or services to the identified airplanes. The Commerce Department actions are part of the Biden administration's response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, which the department said Belarus has enabled and supported. Deputy Commerce Secretary Don Graves said: "By rejecting the international rule of law, Russia and Belarus have made it clear that they do not deserve the benefits of participating in the global economy, and that includes international travel." Last week, the department stepped up its crackdown against Russian airlines, slapping Aeroflot, Azur Air, and UTair with enforcement actions for violating American export controls. The enforcement action denies the three Russian carriers export privileges and targets the entire airlines, not just specific planes. The U.S. government believes the actions will over time make the carriers largely unable to continue flights. Previously, the United States had identified more than 170 Boeing planes that Russian airlines were operating in violation of U.S. sanctions, including about 40 Aeroflot Boeing 737 and 777 planes, 21 Azur Boeing planes and 17 UTair Boeing aircraft. It has removed some that have left Russia. The United States, European Union and other countries have barred Russian planes from U.S. airspace. https://www.yahoo.com/news/u-targets-seven-belarus-national-164849131.html How Connected Cockpits are Helping UPS Increase Aircraft Efficiency During the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, when Americans were mostly sequestered in their homes and relying on delivery services for access to everything from dinner to health and beauty products, global delivery giants like UPS were an essential and near-constant presence in our lives. But many of us only know UPS from what we can see – their fleet of brown trucks and friendly delivery people. We don’t see the 1,200 flights that the company’s almost 300 owned and operated aircraft take daily to ensure that our your eCommerce and life-saving healthcare packages, arrive on the doorsteps when promised. Getting a package from “Point A” to “Point B” by a select date and time is a promise that UPS makes to its customers. This makes finding ways to increase the efficiency of flights and finding the most effective flight paths fundamental to the company’s business. This also makes aircraft connectivity and innovative and new aviation technologies essential for the company’s continued growth and success. To learn more about how UPS is ushering in a new era of connected aircraft and aviation, we sat down with Kevin Swiatek, the airlines Flight Operations Manager. During our discussion, we spoke about how UPS defines the connected cockpit, how connectivity could empower the flight crew to make better flight path decisions, and what the future of the connected aircraft looks like. Connected Aviation Today (CAT): How does UPS define the connected cockpit? Kevin Swiatek: The concept of the connected cockpit involves making everything that’s available to the flight crew in their ready room available in the cockpit, itself, throughout the flight. “WE SEE THE CONNECTED COCKPIT AS AN ENABLER – GETTING THAT DATA TO CREW MEMBERS, MAINTENANCE PERSONNEL, OR DISPATCHERS IN REAL-TIME.” – KEVIN SWIATEK But there is a larger, potentially more disruptive definition that includes much more than simply utilizing data. That definition involves turning that data into information and finding ways to utilize that information to assist our pilots, dispatchers, and mechanics. Essentially, using that information to improve aircraft reliability. That’s the larger definition – or the “big promise” – of the connected cockpit. There’s so much data on airplanes. And, while we see a lot of that data, much of it is not being properly utilized. At UPS, we’re constantly thinking about how we can tap into that data and provide real-time access to the data that’s on the airplane. And, once we can access that data in the cockpit and on the ground, we’re thinking about how we can leverage it for information to improve safety and reliability. We see the connected cockpit as an enabler – getting that data to crew members, maintenance personnel, or dispatchers in real-time so that it be used to make their jobs more efficient, and safer, and provide a better delivery experience for our customers. CAT: What are the major benefits you see airlines and delivery companies receiving from a connected aviation ecosystem? Kevin Swiatek: Ultimately, the benefit is more data and better data. It’s more actionable data and more timely data. If you take that data and translate it into information, that’s better information, more actionable information, and more timely information. That’s really the benefit. “BY PROVIDING PILOTS AND DISPATCHERS WITH A HIGH-LEVEL VIEW OF THE WEATHER, WE CAN ENABLE THEM TO MAKE DECISIONS THAT CAN INCREASE EFFICIENCY AND SAFETY.” – KEVIN SWIATEK For example, think about the iPad or smart device that the pilot has with them in the cockpit. What if we can share efficiency opportunities that can shave time off their route of flight or a more optimal flight level or fuel-saving possibilities? What if we can provide them with real-time weather and weather effect data and maps on that device? What if we could give them a satellite view of what’s going on from a weather perspective between where they are and their destination? If you speak with pilots, they’ll tell you that weather deviations and unexpected weather effects can happen much more frequently than people realize. Especially in the summer, or when flying near the Equator. If the pilot can see that information right there in the cockpit, and that same view can be shared by the dispatchers on the ground, they can collaborate in real-time to determine more efficient flight paths with minor offsets that allow them to avoid that weather effect. Compare that to the past, when pilots wouldn’t be aware of weather effects until coming upon them, and then needing to conduct significant flight path offsets to move around that weather. This is just one example of how the connected cockpit could be beneficial. By providing pilots and dispatchers with a high-level view of the weather, we can enable them to make decisions that can increase efficiency and safety. CAT: How is UPS utilizing electronic flight bag (EFB) connectivity, and what benefits is it delivering? Kevin Swiatek: The EFB has become the platform that enables us to extend the applications and data that the flight crews can access in the crew ready rooms and get it out to the cockpit. And those weather feeds, data sets, and applications that are used in the cockpit are also used by the dispatcher. This ensures that both the pilot and the dispatcher are seeing the same information, which is extremely important. With connected EFB we can, for example, provide a platform for displaying weather information. We can overlay the flight path on that weather map so that the pilot and dispatcher can better anticipate weather events and take proactive steps to avoid them, or to utilize tailwinds to optimize their flight – saving time and fuel. For a business like UPS, which operates 1,200 flights per day, saving time on those flights and cutting fuel costs can have a massive impact on packages getting to where they need to go on time, and improving operational efficiency. CAT: How do you see this connectivity trend playing out over the course of the next few years? Kevin Swiatek: Many operators are trying to leverage traffic data or ADS-B data to give them better situational awareness. And there’s a good reason for that. When you talk to pilots, they want more transparency into what the pilot in front of them is flying through and what they’re going to experience. They want visibility into the flow of the airplanes into their destination airport and they want to know what weather events or conditions are ahead on the flight path. There is a large safety and reliability benefit to being able to share that information and having that data displayed for the flight crew. In the future, I believe that we could see the EFB interrogating, or getting information from the flight management computer, to have the capacity to pull information and different data sets together to start massaging the route to avoid traffic jams or weather patterns. It could almost operate like the GPS solutions that we use on roads to help navigate us around traffic or arrive sooner – even if we have to travel a further distance. Then, there’s also a movement towards using that data for predictive analytics and becoming more proactive in the maintenance and operations of aircraft. To learn more about the benefits of increasing connected aircraft, click HERE to download a complimentary copy of the white paper, “Understanding the Impact of Data From New Generation Aircraft on the ACARS Network.” https://connectedaviationtoday.com/how-connected-cockpits-are-helping-ups-increase-aircraft-efficiency/ Geopolitics leads Boeing to downgrade dozens of jet orders Boeing has removed 141 airplanes from its backlog of pending orders, many of them because of what it termed geopolitical considerations including restrictions on sales because of sanctions like those imposed on Russia for its war against Ukraine. The big aircraft manufacturer said Tuesday it took 38 net new orders for planes in March, most of them single-aisle 737 Max jets. Air Lease Corp. placed an order for 32 Maxes. Boeing removed 141 previously ordered planes from its backlog of more than 4,000 planes because accounting rules make it unclear whether the sale will be completed. Sometimes planes are removed from the backlog because of an order cancellation, other times because the buyer's financial problems place the deal in jeopardy. This time, however, Boeing said that about two-thirds of the planes removed from the backlog resulted from geopolitical reasons including sanctions. It declined to identify the customers whose orders were, in effect, downgraded to questionable. Boeing previously indicated that it had undelivered orders for 34 planes with Russian carriers Utair and Volga-Dnepr and seven with SkyUp Airlines of Ukraine. In the past 10 years, Boeing has taken orders for 86 planes from Russian companies including 30 from Utair, 22 from Sberbank Leasing and six from Aeroflot, the nation's flag carrier. The United States and its allies have been imposing steadily escalating sanctions on Russia since it invaded Ukraine in February. Sberbank is among the targets. Boeing Co. said it delivered 41 planes in March, including 37 737s, most of them Max models. The Chicago-based company has delivered 95 planes so far this year, providing crucial cash because airlines typically pay a large part of the purchase price on delivery. https://www.knkx.org/business/2022-04-12/geopolitics-leads-boeing-to-downgrade-dozens-of-jet-orders Incident: ATI B763 at Los Angeles on Apr 12th 2022, flight control problem An ATI Air Transport International Boeing 767-300 on behalf of Amazon Air, registration N433AZ performing flight 8C-3597 from Los Angeles,CA to Cincinnati,KY (USA) with 2 crew, was climbing out of Los Angeles' runway 24R when the crew reported flight control problems and stopped the climb at 5000 feet, later climbing to 7000 feet. The crew declared emergency again reporting flight control problems and requested a long final for Los Angeles' runway 25R. The aircraft landed safely but at a higher than normal speed (about 190 knots over ground) back on Los Angeles' runway 25R about 45 minutes after departure. The aircraft is still on the ground in Los Angeles about 32 hours after landing back. https://www.avherald.com/h?article=4f7628f9&opt=0 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE | March 28, 2022 CONTACT: Philip Barbour, 205-939-1700, 205-617-9007 Call for Nominations For 2022 Laura Taber Barbour Air Safety Award ALEXANDRIA, Va. -- The Laura Taber Barbour Air Safety Foundation is now accepting nominations for the 2022 Laura Taber Barbour Air Safety Award, honoring a leader in global aviation safety. The Award is scheduled to be presented during Flight Safety Foundation’s annual International Air Safety Summit this fall. Presented annually since 1956, the Laura Taber Barbour Air Safety Award recognizes notable achievement in the field of civil or military aviation safety in method, design, invention, study, or other improvement. The Award's recipient is selected for a "significant individual or group effort contributing to improving aviation safety, with emphasis on original contributions," and a "significant individual or group effort performed above and beyond normal responsibilities." Mechanics, engineers, and others outside of top administrative or research positions should be especially considered. The contribution need not be recent, especially if the nominee has not received adequate recognition. Nominations that were not selected as past winners may be resubmitted for consideration in subsequent years. Please note that self-nominations will not be considered. The Award Committee, composed of leaders in the field of aviation, meets each year to conduct a final review of nominees and selection of the current year's recipient. Please help us identify and honor this year's most deserving recipient. Nominations, including a 1-to-2-page narrative, can be submitted via the Laura Taber Barbour Foundation website at http://ltbaward.org/the-award/nomination-form/. Nominations will be accepted through June 3, 2022. For more information, including a complete history of Award recipients, see www.ltbaward.org. About the Laura Taber Barbour Air Safety Foundation and Award The Laura Taber Barbour Air Safety Award's story dates back more than 75 years. On April 14, 1945, after visiting family in Pittsburgh, Laura Taber Barbour was aboard a Pennsylvania Central Airlines DC-3 when it crashed into the rugged terrain of Cheat Mountain near Morgantown, West Virginia. All passengers and crew were killed. In 1956 her husband, Dr. Clifford E. Barbour and son, Clifford E. Barbour, Jr., in close association with The Flight Safety Foundation, established the Laura Taber Barbour Air Safety Award in her honor. For the past 65 years, this distinguished award recognizing outstanding achievements in aviation safety worldwide has been presented at Flight Safety Foundation’s International Aviation Safety Seminar. In 2013, The Laura Taber Barbour Air Safety Foundation was formed as an independent non-profit charitable organization composed of members of the Award Board, the aviation community, and the Barbour family. In addition to the annual presentation of the award, in 2019 the Foundation initiated a scholarship program that supports worthy students pursuing professional aviation studies. As the Foundation broadens its scope, the Laura Taber Barbour Air Safety Award will continue to recognize those who significantly contributed to aviation safety. For more information on the Foundation, the award, and past winners, visit http://LTBAward.org Curt Lewis