Travel Safety Update.Nov 13, 2006 Third annual FAA International Aviation Safety Forum took place last week in Washington and some 500 aviation professionals from 50 countries shared their concerns about the challenges in maintaining safety standards Safety standards are standards designed to ensure the safety of products, activities or processes, etc. They may be advisory or compulsory and are normally laid down by an advisory or regulatory body that may be either voluntary or statutory. in increasingly crowded skies. "Right now, the commercial fatal accident rate in the US is about two fatal accidents for every 10 million takeoffs," FAA Administrator Marion Blakey Marion Clifton Blakey (born March 26, 1948) was the 15th Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration. She was the second woman to hold the position, serving as a successor to Jane Garvey, the first woman to hold the Administrator title. said. "The forecasts anticipate that we should expect a doubling or tripling of the amount of traffic in the system over the next 10 to 20 years." She noted that passenger numbers will climb past 1 billion by 2015. At the same time, there could be an influx of 5,000 VLJs and a substantial increase in the number of fractional ownership In business, fractional ownership is a percentage share of an expensive asset. Shares are sold to individual owners. A fractional owner enjoys priorities and privileges, such as reduced rates, priority access on holidays and income sharing. jets. Nov 7, 2006 Airbus, Air France Air France in full Compagnie Internationale Air France French passenger and cargo airline with more than 200 destinations in some 80 countries. It introduced supersonic Concorde service in 1976, but financial loss led the company to cease its Concorde Airbus, Air France Held Liable For 1992 Crash. A French court found Airbus and Air France liable on Tuesday for damages over a 1992 plane crash that killed 87 people near the eastern city of Strasbourg but cleared six people of criminal responsibility. The court ordered the companies to pay compensation to the relatives of those killed. The amount of damages, however, had yet to be determined, and Air France has already paid millions of euros in compensation. Nov 7, 2006 Chicago O'Hare airports Several airports offer flu shots. Chicago O'Hare is one of several U.S. airports that offer travelers the chance to buy a flu shot. O'Hare has a kiosk located next to a candy shop in its United Airlines terminal. Other airports offer the shot at clinics inside terminals. Nov 9, 2006 Comair No public hearing planned for Comair crash, NTSB NTSB abbr. National Transportation Safety Board says. National Transportation Safety Board investigators say they will not hold a public hearing on the crash of Comair Flight 5191, which crashed in Kentucky in August. They may rule on possible causes of the accident, which killed 49 people, by next spring. Nov 10, 2006 GOL GOL - General Operating Language. Subsystem of DOCUS. [Sammet 1969, p.678]. , Boeing, Embraer 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 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, 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. Nov 7, 2006 United Airlines United plane clips another on O'Hare taxiway taxiway: see airport. . Aviation officials said a United Airlines airliner clipped the tail of another United plane Tuesday at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport O'Hare International Airport is an airport located in Chicago, Illinois, United States, 17 miles (27 km) northwest of the Chicago Loop. It is the largest hub of United Airlines (whose headquarters is in downtown Chicago) and the second-largest hub of American Airlines (after . No one was injured, and both flights were canceled. 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