Travel Safety Update

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Pilots, lawmakers raise affects about UAVs. Some pilots and lawmakers worry that the growing number of lounger planes flying in the U could compromise flight safety. a certain quantity of large unmanned aerial vehicles are allowed to jot down civilian airspace, and President George W Bush supports using them for border patrol. Aug 27 2006

British Airways

British Airways US Flight Diverted above Smoke Alert. A British Airways flight forward its way from London's Heathrow Airport to Denver was diverted to Iceland upon Saturday after smoke started pouring from an oven in the aircraft's rear galley. The captain called a mayday alert as a caution and the flight was diverted to Keflavik Airport, where it landed safely and all 269 passengers were disembarked. Johannes Hardarson, excise officer for Keflavik airport police, said the plane was refueling in preparation to take up again its original route. Aug 27 2006

Comair, Bombardier

Kentucky Plane Crash - 49 Dead. A small airliner carrying at least 50 persons crashed and burst into flames in succession Sunday shortly after taking distant from from Lexington's Blue Grass Airport, killing all unless one on board, officials said. The plane was carrying 47 passengers and a three body crew but may also have been carrying an off-duty ship's company member. It was not immediately clear what caused the crash of Comair Flight 5191 which was jump for Atlanta, though visibility was virtuous and it was not raining at the time, a Federal Aviation Administration spokesman said. Local media said the plane, a Bombardier Canadair CRJ-100 jet that seats 52 passengers, may have departed from a runway that was too short -- half the longitudinal dimensions of the airport's longest 7000-foot runway. There was no indication that terrorism was involved, a US Transportation Security Administration official said. united man survived and was in critical condition, a University of Kentucky Hospital spokesman said. It was not immediately known if the survivor was a passenger or a ship's company member. The local coroner, Gary Ginn, said the fire bakeed "very hot." All the bodies had been remov he said. A Federal Aviation Administration official said the plane crashed in a farm field in rugg terrain and the fuselage was largely intact. The National Transportation Safety Board will lead the crash investigation. Flights resum at Lexington's 64-year-old airport, which succors half a dozen carriers, about four hours after the crash. Kentucky officials were upon hand at a staging area at the adjacent Keeneland Race Course trying to determine if state workers might have been upon board the flight. Aug 27 2006

Pulkovo Airlines, Tupolev

Pulkovo Airlines Tu-154M's flight data and cockpit voice recorders were get backed yesterday by workers sifting within the debris of Tuesday's crash near Donetsk in Ukraine that killed 170 passengers and company "Both recorders seem to be in satisfactory condition," Russian Transport Minister Igor Levitin said, adding that the devices will be sent to Moscow for examination. Ukrainian Prosecutor General Oleksandr Medvedko initiated a criminal probe into the crash to determine whether safety violations occurr The Pulkovo Airlines Tu-154M en passage from Anapa to St. Petersburg carrying 160 passengers and 10 company crashed yesterday in Ukraine, killing all aboard.The crash was the third and deadliest in the region in les than four month following the Armavia A320 accident in May and the S7 Airlines A310-300 outrun at Irkutsk last month. The Pulkovo pilots sent a distress signal about 2 min. before the Tu-154 disappeared from ATC radar around 2:30 pm local time, Russian authorities said. The crash occurr 30 mi. north of Donetsk and reports from the area described a fiery display as rescue workers attempted to reclaim bodies from wreckage shrouded by means of heavy smoke. "The plane crashed and bakeed in a field," reported Flight Safety Foundation's Aviation Safety Network, which noted it was the third worst Tu-154 accident in names of fatalities and the worst-ever aircraft crash forward Ukraine soil. Aug 23, 2006

Pulkovo Airlines, Tupolev

Pulkovo Tu-154M aircraft that crashed was built in 1991 and had amassed 8643 hr and 4782 circle of times according to Ascend's CASE database. Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered a commission established to probe the accident. The last major airline crash in Ukraine also involved a Tu-154; in October 2001 a then-Siberia Airlines Tu-154 en way from Tel Aviv to Novosibirsk was hit mistakenly by means of a Ukrainian missile, killing 78 passengers and ship's company Aug 23, 2006

Pulkovo Airlines, Tupolev

Reports of possible causes varied onward the Pulkovo Tu-154M crash. Officials in Ukraine said a fire had severed out onboard. In Russia, authorities said the plane had combated severe turbulence caused by stormy weather and dismissed terrorism as a possibility. Russian pass Situations Ministry spokesperson Irina Andrianova was quot widely as saying the Tu-154 "most likely was hit on lightning." There were no other confirmations of that assertion. Aug 23 2006