Flight Safety Information - April 22, 2022 No.080 In This Issue : Incident: VivaAerobus A20N at Mexico City on Apr 9th 2022, engine shut down in flight : Incident: Azul A20N at Salvador on Apr 8th 2022, smoke indication : China’s first key overseas jet customer goes with Airbus initially : Russia may spend $1.3 billion from wealth fund to recapitalise Aeroflot - Ifax : Russia will be a 'pariah state in the eyes of many people forever' and there'll be no 'starting over' while Putin is still in charge, expert says : Call for Nominations For 2022 Laura Taber Barbour Air Safety Award Incident: VivaAerobus A20N at Mexico City on Apr 9th 2022, engine shut down in flight A VivaAerobus Airbus A320-200N, registration XA-VIJ performing flight VB-1057 from Guadalajara to Mexico City (Mexico), was in the initial descent from FL350 to FL260 towards Mexico City when the left hand engine (PW1127G) failed. The crew attempted to restart the engine without success. The aircraft continued for a safe landing on Mexico City's runway 05R. Mexico's AIB rated the occurrence a serious incident and opened an investigation. The aircraft did not sustain any damage. https://www.avherald.com/h?article=4f7bd649&opt=0 Incident: Azul A20N at Salvador on Apr 8th 2022, smoke indication An Azul Linhas Aereas Airbus A320-200N, registration PR-YRA performing flight AD-4472 from Salvador,BA to Belo Horizonte,MG (Brazil) with 147 passengers and 6 crew, was climbing out of Salvador's runway 10 when the crew stopped the climb at about FL240 after a smoke indication. The crew decided to return to Salvador for a safe landing on runway 10 about 30 minutes after departure. Brazil's CENIPA, while reporting the occurrence rated an incident, does not mention the nature of the smoke indication (e.g. toilet, luggage compartment, ...). The aircraft remained on the ground in Salvador for about 21 hours, then returned to service. https://www.avherald.com/h?article=4f7bbd26&opt=0 Incident: German Airways E190 at Milan on Apr 18th 2022, unreliable airspeed A German Airways Embraer ERJ-190 on behalf of Italia Trasporto Aereo, registration D-AMWO performing flight AZ-146 from Milan Linate (Italy) to Luxembourg (Luxembourg), was climbing out of Linate's runway 36 when the crew observed the indications of left and right hand airspeed indicators disagreed, autopilot and autothrottle disengaged automatically. The crew stopped the climb at 6000 feet and entered a hold to prepare the return to Linate. The aircraft landed safely on Linate's runway 36 about 40 minutes after departure. The aircraft is still on the ground in Milan about 48 hours after landing back. https://www.avherald.com/h?article=4f7b1792&opt=0 Incident: Delta B764 near Dublin on Apr 18th 2022, smell of smoke in cockpit A Delta Airlines Boeing 767-400, registration N833MH performing flight DL-4 from London Heathrow,EN (UK) to New York JFK,NY (USA), was enroute at FL320 about 290nm westnorthwest of Dublin (Ireland) about to enter Oceanic Airspace when the crew reported there had been a loud bang at the left hand side of the aircraft followed by the smell of smoke in the cockpit. The crew turned around and diverted to Dublin for a safe landing on runway 28L about 70 minutes after turning around. The aircraft remained on the ground in Dublin for about 4.5 hours, then continued the journey and reached New York with a delay of about 7 hours. https://www.avherald.com/h?article=4f7a5f23&opt=0 China’s first key overseas jet customer goes with Airbus initially A new budget carrier meant to be the first international customer for China’s homegrown passenger jet is going with Airbus SE for its first plane, the carrier’s website shows. Indonesian low-cost carrier PT TransNusa Aviation Mandiri may eventually have as many as six Airbus jets in its fleet, with a second due to arrive next month, a person familiar with the matter said, declining to be identified because the information is private. China Aircraft Leasing Group Holdings Ltd.—a shareholder of TransNusa—said in January last year that it would provide the Indonesian carrier with 30 of state-backed planemaker Commercial Aircraft Corp. of China Ltd.’s ARJ21 single-aisle jets, making the Kupang, East Nusa Tenggara-based airline the first outside China to fly the company’s planes. TransNusa Vice Chairman Leo Budiman said in an interview last year that the airline was hoping thttps://ajot.com/news/chinaas-first-key-overseas-jet-customer-goes-with-airbus-initially https://ajot.com/news/chinaas-first-key-overseas-jet-customer-goes-with-airbus-initially Russia may spend $1.3 billion from wealth fund to recapitalise Aeroflot - Ifax (Reuters) - Russia is considering spending around 107 billion roubles ($1.34 billion) from its National Wealth Fund (NWF) to recapitalise flagship airline Aeroflot, the Interfax news agency reported on Wednesday, citing an unnamed source. The planned move is part of a new package of measures that the government is preparing to support economic development following Western sanctions over Moscow's actions in Ukraine. The NWF, which accumulates the country's oil revenues, will buy into a new share issue by Aeroflot via an open subscription and spend a further 57 billion roubles on equity stakes in other Russian airlines to help them pay debts, Interfax reported. According to Interfax, the government's stake in Aeroflot must not fall beyond the current 57.34% as a result of the new share sale. Russia spent 80 billion roubles buying Aeroflot shares in 2020 to help it weather the coronavirus crisis. Aeroflot and the Russian finance ministry did not immediately respond to requests for comment. News site RBC reported on Tuesday that the government was discussing an additional share issue by Aeroflot that would be paid for by the NWF, whose assets stood at $155.2 billion last month. ($1 = 79.7500 roubles) https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/russia-may-spend-1-3-160448698.html Russia will be a 'pariah state in the eyes of many people forever' and there'll be no 'starting over' while Putin is still in charge, expert says Vladimir Putin's unprovoked war in Ukraine has upended Russia's international and domestic affairs. Reports suggest concerns about the ongoing invasion are growing even within the Kremlin. "It's suicidally bad what he's doing to his country" and "its standing in the world," an expert said. Russian President Vladimir Putin is facing increasing animosity both abroad and at home as the second month of his unprovoked war in Ukraine comes to a close. Amid ongoing strategy failures, mounting military losses, and the dire economic consequences of Western sanctions, Russia's future looks bleak, and it's almost entirely Putin's fault, experts told Insider. "It's suicidally bad what he's doing to his country, its economy, and its standing in the world," said Robert English, a professor at the University of Southern California who studies Russia, the Soviet Union, and Eastern Europe. The longtime Russian president's decisions on the Ukraine invasion face rising scrutiny as a small but growing number of Kremlin insiders have started to express doubts about the war. Ten sources with direct knowledge of the conflict conveyed their concerns to Bloomberg this month, saying they regard the invasion as a catastrophic mistake that will set the country back decades. The report described the critics as being spread across senior positions in government and state-run businesses. While Putin continues to present a confident front — hand-waving the true cost of Western sanctions and dismissing the political consequences of war — some Russian insiders are reportedly losing faith. According to English, they have good reason to do so. The expert said Putin's foray into Ukraine has already proven more costly for Russia than the Soviet Union's nearly ten-year conflict in Afghanistan in the 1980s. "The USSR lost around 15,000-plus soldiers in Afghanistan in a decade of fighting... and that was enough to be considered a 'bleeding wound,"' English said. "Putin has lost close to that amount in one month — not one year; much less ten years — but in one month." "So, his reckoning is coming much more quickly," English added. Moscow claimed in late March that 1,351 soldiers had been killed and 3,825 others wounded since the invasion began, but the country has provided no official update since. NATO estimates put the likely total closer to 15,000, while Ukraine says it has killed nearly 20,000 Russian soldiers. But the cost of Putin's war goes beyond the battlefield Ordinary Russians are beginning to feel the economic pinch of tough Western sanctions. Putin, himself, has acknowledged that sanctions have started to upset the country's energy industry, but publicly claimed that Russia's economy has not been undermined as a result. The head of Russia's central bank, however, warned that the full impact of sanctions has not yet been felt, and Moscow's mayor said this week 200,000 residents could lose their jobs as Western companies continue to pull out of the country en masse. "He's set the country back economically," English said. "It's losing all of its important trade ties and its resource customers in the West." The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development estimated last month that Russia's GDP will shrink by 10% this year. Even as Russia readjusts its military strategy, pulling back from the capital city of Kyiv and focusing attacks on eastern Ukraine as part of its "new phase" of the war, English said the damage to Russia's international and domestic standing has already been done. "Russia will be a pariah state in the eyes of many people forever, but at least for a decade to come," he said. "Until Putin goes, there'll be no sense of cleansing and starting over." But experts and Russians alike said Putin is unlikely to go anywhere anytime soon. Bloomberg's sources said Putin sees himself as being on an historic mission — one which he continues to believe has the full Russian public's support. https://www.yahoo.com/news/russia-pariah-state-eyes-many-014653815.html 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