Company Watch - Gol Airlines.Nov 13, 2006 Gol flew 1.33 billion RPKs in October, up 39.7% from the year-ago month. Capacity rose 49.6% to 1.91 billion ASKs and load factor fell 4.9 points to 70%. Nov 10, 2006 Brazil Air-Crash Relatives Sue ExcelAire, Honeywell. Relatives of victims of a September air crash in Brazil between an airliner and a corporate jet sued the small plane's operator and Honeywell International in a US court on Monday. The September 29 crash occurred when a Boeing 737-800 jet operated by low-cost Brazilian airline Gol clipped clip 1 v. clipped, clip·ping, clips v.tr. 1. To cut, cut off, or cut out with or as if with shears: clip coupons; clipped three seconds off the record. a corporate jet made by Embraer and operated by ExcelAire. The airliner crashed, killing more than 150 people in one of Brazil's worst plane disasters, while the smaller Embraer aircraft landed safely. The lawsuit lawsuit: see procedure; tort. , filed in US Court for the Eastern District of New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of in Brooklyn by the families of 10 of the crash victims charge ExcelAire and Honeywell, which manufactured the transponder A receiver/transmitter on a communications satellite. It receives a microwave signal from earth (uplink), amplifies it and retransmits it back to earth at a different frequency (downlink). A satellite has several transponders. used on the small jet, with contributing to the crash. A transponder tracks a plane's position relative to the ground and other aircraft as part of a system to help avoid collisions. Honeywell said it had not seen the suit, but in a statement added, "Honeywell is not aware of any evidence that indicates that its transponder on the Embraer Legacy was not functioning as designed or that Honeywell was responsible for the accident." The suit seeks monetary damages Monetary damages, in civil law, refers to compensation given to an injured party by a liable party. Monetary damages may be restitution, a penalty, or both. . Nov 7, 2006 Editor: Aram Gesar, eMail: edit@AirGuideOnline.com For more global news, reviews, features and analysis, please go to: http://www.airguideonline.com/onlinenews.htm To Subscribe to Verb 1. subscribe to - receive or obtain regularly; "We take the Times every day" subscribe, take buy, purchase - obtain by purchase; acquire by means of a financial transaction; "The family purchased a new car"; "The conglomerate acquired a new company"; our Newsletters: http://www.airguideonline.com/order_formsubs.htm#news To Advertise: advert@AirGuideOnline.com Oct 30, 2006 |
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