Denny Yen
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FAA classifies electronic devices according to categories set by the FCC, for e.g., Class A devices, Class B and so on. The factors for classification include RF output, shielding in the device itself, etc.
At present almost all of RF devices are prohibited, and these include cellphones, walkie-talkies, wireless LAN card on laptop, etc.
A few weeks ago, on a CX flight I took from TPE to HKG, someone's cellphone rang at a critical moment just after take-off (before reaching cruising altitude). And it continued ringing for less than a minute.
Nothing happened to the a/c...but F/A immediately made a PA saying a cellphone ringing was heard and remind passengers to switch off.
After we reached cruising altitude, the F/As went from seat to seat asking passengers to re-check their cells to make sure it is properly turned-off.
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Airlines choose an icon that can be instantly recognized as their national icon. For e.g.:
Qantas- kangaroo = australia
EVA- compas = reminder of its roots in shipping business
JAL- sun = land of rising sun
MAS- wau = malay kite
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CX = reminds me of chicken wings...especially BBQ chicken wings.
On a serious note, I think Frontier Airlines' name plus billboard fonts are unique. I've seen them in Canada and Alaska.
More here:
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This is a vid demo of SU-35 Fighter, watch the back-flips and almost standstill in mid-air maneuver.
http://bemil.chosun.com/movie%20link/su-35.wmv
Note also the mysterious object at 1:55-1:57 of the film. Rumored to be RODS (a mysterious squid-like flying creature). http://www.subversiveelement.com/Rods.html
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Within China's Pearl River delta itself (Guandong province), there are 5 major airports within a 50km radius (Guangzhou, HK, Shenzhen, Zhuhai, Macau). That area is the world's workshop for electronic goods/semiconductors/ICs where it is crucial to have reliable and fase delivery.
DHL is building its cargo/logistics hub there for Far east market. Whereas, the more established one especially HKIA/CLK is renewing/expanding better cargo facilities to meet demands.
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Just imagine KUL-IPH-KUL...or KUL-KUA-KUL...
mana ada crusing time!
Most airlines (for e.g., AC Jazz, ANK and LH Regional) use DHC8-300, ATR42/72 or BAe146 for these kind of intercity flights. In Japan, they use a self-service ticket kiosk, which can read driving license/passport. Just go to the airport, pay and collect your ticket/boarding pass at the vending machine.
Compared to Bullet trains, these flights are cheaper and faster. Passengers take it because of its frequency and less hassle check-in. Flights are reasonably frequent enough that it's like a highway bus service. Flying time is 40mins or 50mins. They are fast, efficient and a quick way to get around.
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Some info on the Tg. Kupang crash:
Malaysia Airlines Flight 653 (MH653), a Boeing 737-2H6 registered as 9M-MBD (delivered in September 1972 as 9M-AQO), was a flight which crashed at Tanjong Kupang, Johor, in Malaysia on the evening of December 4, 1977. It was the first fatal accident for Malaysia Airlines, with all 93 passengers and 7 crew killed instantly. The flight was apparently hijacked as soon as it reached cruise level; the circumstances in which this and the subsequent crash occurred remain unsolved.Sequence of events
Flight MH653 departed from Penang's Runway 22 at exactly 1921 hrs for Kuala Lumpur's Subang Airport (now known as the Sultan Abdul Aziz Shah Airport). Onboard were 7 crew and 93 passengers, including the Malaysian Agricultural Minister, Dato' Ali Haji Ahmad, Public Works Department Head, Dato' Khalid Mahfuz, and Cuban Ambassador to Japan, Mario Garcia. In charge of the flight was Captain G.K. Ganjoor.
At approximately 1954 hrs, while at a height of 4,000 feet over Batu Arang descending towards Subang's Runway 33, captain G.K. Ganjoor reported to Subang Tower of an "unidentified hijacker" onboard. The tower immediately notified the authorities, who made emergency preparations at the airport.
A few minutes later, however, Captain Ganjoor radioed:"We're now proceeding to Singapore...". The plane never touched down at Subang.
At 2015 hrs, all communications with flight MH653 were lost.
At 2036 hrs, the residents of Kampong Ladang, Tanjong Kupang in Johor reported hearing explosions and seeing burning wreckage in a swamp. The wreckage was later identified as Flight MH653. No one on board survived, and not one recognizable body was found. The plane had hit the ground almost vertically at a very high speed.
Aftermath
The cockpit voice recorder of the aircraft was recovered, and the following was established:
After seizing control, at a point shortly before the crash, the offender locked himself in the cockpit with the two pilots. From the conversation, it appeared that all tension was gone, and the hijacker was talking amiably to the pilots. Suddenly, two gunshots occur in rapid succession, followed a short time later by a third and final shot.
At this stage, the aircraft was on autopilot and flyable. Noises suggestive of the cockpit door being broken in are heard, along with a reasonable amount of screaming and cursing. No noises are heard from within the cockpit to indicate any of the three occupants were conscious.
The autopilot disconnects, possibly due to a pitch input by someone entering the cockpit and trying to control the aircraft without knowing how to do it properly. An investigator speculated that someone pulled back on the column, causing a pitch up, and that they were doing it in such a fashion that positive feedback occurred, e.g. reaching over a pilot unsupported and falling back as the plane pitched up, i.e. a pilot-induced oscillation. This rapidly developed into a high amplitude phugoid oscillation that resulted in a dive into the swamp.
The hijacker spoke with a Japanese accent, and it was speculated that the Japanese Red Army was responsible for the hijacking and subsequent murder of the pilots.
All recovered remains were x-rayed in an attempt to discover evidence of a projectile or weapon. No weapon or bullet was ever found. Remains were buried in a common grave at the border of the various common religions in Malaysia.
The memorial site is situated at Jalan Kebun Teh, Johor Bahru, Malaysia.
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anyone got infos on the JAL DC-8 which crash during on approach to Subang? I don't really understand the databese on airdisaster.com.
Azuddin
It crashed into a hill inside a rubber plantation near Paya Jaras/Sg Buloh area. There was a heavy thunderstorm at that time. A/c involved was JA8051
http://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19770927-0
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SIA crash in TPE is another example of ATC mistake.
yes it is, I heard that it is total casualties on the KLM and more then half from the Pan Am.
Azuddin
OT: I recall that investigators did not pin any errors on the part of TPE tower. The T/O clearance came when the a/c was just turning into the threshold. And the pilots thought the controller could see the a/c from the tower during the typhoon. This led them to think they were on the right rwy.
Interestingly, the report noted 10 clues that were available to the pilots, which could tell them they are on the wrong rwy:
- Para-Visual Display - to show if aligned to correct rwy localizer
- Primary Flight Display
- Airport navigation diagram
- A/c heading reference
- Centerline lighting on taxiway
- Rwy centerline lights
- Signage
- Centerline lights color leading into taxiway and rwy
- Rwy edge lights
- Rwy/Taxiway's width difference
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Sikorsky 561 (Nuri) = 18
Perhaps the older members of MW will remember about a significant Nuri crash. It carried Ghazali Shafie, the Foreign Minister at that time, in the 1980s. My memory of the exact details is quite vague, but the gist of it is as follows:
At that time, the truce with CPM (Communist Party of Malaya) wasn't in place yet. The Nuri went down in a thick jungle region of the Peninsular. There was a news blackout at the early stagebecause the authorities fear that he might have been or risk being captured by CPM.
The SAR operation was huge and involved commandos, army and police. Miraculously, he was found alive (scratches/bruises but no serious internal injuries) despite being thrown out of the chopper...he landed on the tree vines, which presumably cushioned his fall.
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The last fire was in '94 I think...
Radar fire was indeed in 1994. At that time, I was still studying in the UK. I remember about the chaos and we almost miss our connecting flights from SIN to LHR.
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Thanks for the pictures, Denny !
Look at the high mask lighting (3rd photo), just like telephone pole. Btw, wonder what airline was it in that picture ?
BOAC = British Overseas Airways Corp (predecessor of BA). Here is the history:
http://72.14.207.104/search?q=cache:k1W2KE...en&ct=clnk&cd=1
A/c in pic is indeed a Vickers VC10. Here is the history:
http://www.vc10.net/History/historyBOAC.html
Some engineering drawings:
http://www.vc10.net/background_pictures.html
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Large pics...circa 1965. Its hard to believe those rubber plantations were subsequently gazetted by the gov't to become Kg Baru Subang. In the 1980s, part of it became TUDM Subang. In 1990s, it became Subang Light Industrial zone.
BOAC Vickers (?)
Road heading left leads to Kg Baru Subang and Kg Melayu Subang. If you continue onwards and turn left at a junction, there is an old road that connects to TUDM Subang and Ladang Kerry(?). Heading right leads to Sg Buloh, RRIM, Tanah Merah, K.Selangor, Paya Jaras, Kepong, FRIM, etc.
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Great Wall one is good enough for a post card. Good perspective, depth. You can convert it into B&W for dramatic effect.
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good day, i'm doing my research regarding the Flight Scheduling system of airline in malaysia...can anyone help me giving any information regarding the scheduling system and any idea of agent involve in this system.....
thank you...
The best source of info would be directly from the vendors (usually ERP providers such as Oracle, IBM, etc). However, note that they are bound by non-disclosure/trade-secret rules, and hence, may not be able to reveal too detailed info. You may have to request them for some brochures/materials. For a list of vendors, go to:
http://www.thirtythousandfeet.com/soft.htm
http://www.sabreairlinesolutions.com/
http://www.lhsystems.com/en/topic3/topic32/index.htm
My search at google shows the following info:-
This one contains case-studies on various airlines (extracts only).
http://frontpage.hypermall.com/jforrest/DS...ne_decision.htm
A possible source of materials is the "Airline Industry" journal:
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Same has happened for the cargo offices of both AF and KL !!!
More airlines (BA, Asiana, KE, SAS, ANA, etc) are now being raided.
Airlines raided in global cargo probeWed Feb 15, 2006 5:24 AM GMT
TOKYO (Reuters) - A global probe into possible price-fixing in the air cargo industry widened to Asia on Wednesday as Japan Airlines Corp. and two South Korean airlines said authorities had searched their offices.
The European Union's executive arm and the U.S. Justice Department conducted searches of some leading airlines' cargo operations in Europe and the United States on Tuesday, and other airlines were asked for information related to the probe.
"The Commission has reason to believe that the companies concerned may have violated (a European Union) treaty, which prohibits practices such as price fixing," the European Commission said in a statement. It declined to name the targets.
A JAL spokesman said European authorities had searched the Frankfurt offices of its cargo operations. He declined to comment on alleged cartel activity but said, "We are fully cooperating with the probe."
Two South Korean airlines, Korean Air Co. and Asiana Airlines Inc., said they were raided by the local antitrust watchdog.
"Officials from the Fair Trade Commission came to our cargo business office here, but our offices in Europe and the U.S. were not raided," Korean Air spokesman Lee Hyoung-woo said.
Korean Air is the world's top cargo carrier, based on 2004 data.
The spokesman said the FTC officials interviewed executives in charge of cargo businesses and removed documents. He added that he did not know the reason for the investigation or whether it was related to the global probe into possible price-fixing.
South Korea's FTC declined to comment, citing standard policy on investigations.
An Asiana official who declined to be named said cartel team officials from the FTC came to the airline's office and conducted an investigation, initiated by a request from abroad, in relation to fuel surcharges and price-fixing practices.
British Airways, Air France KLM and freight airline Cargolux said they were asked for information related to alleged cartel activity. Scandinavian airline SAS also said it had been raided.
The world's two biggest airlines, AMR Corp.'s American Airlines and UAL Corp.'s United Airlines, both said they had received inquiries as part of the probe.
The cargo business, supported by strong exports from Japanese companies, has been a bright segment for struggling JAL, which expects a net loss this business year due to high fuel prices and a series of safety problems.
Earlier this month, JAL said it planned to boost its global cargo service by nearly 20 percent to 61 flights a week in the year starting April, led by an increase in Asian and U.S. routes.
JAL's smaller rival All Nippon Airways Co. said it outsources cargo operations in Frankfurt to unlisted Nippon Cargo Airlines Co., which said it had not been raided.
A spokeswoman said ANA's offices, including ones in Paris and London, had not been searched regarding the suspected cartel activity.
http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/newsArticl...&archived=False
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Picked this piece of news this morning. Sounds very serious.
AFX News LimitedCathay Pacific, JAL come under EU/US cargo cartel probe
02.15.2006, 03:22 AM
HONG KONG (AFX) - Hong Kong airline Cathay Pacific and Japanese flag carrier Japan Air Lines (JAL) said they have been among the airlines visited by European and American investigators as part of a global probe into suspected price-fixing in the air cargo industry.
Cathay Pacific said it is among 'a number of international airlines' caught up in the joint EU and US investigation.
In a statement, the company denied any wrongdoing and said it is cooperating with investigators.
'Cathay Pacific is in cooperation with the European Union Commission and United States Department of Justice in respect to their investigation into air cargo operations,' the statement said.
'We understand that they have also requested information from a number of international airlines,' it added.
A Cathay Pacific spokeswoman said the inspection of its premises had been unannounced but she would not characterize it as a raid.
'I don't know what happened elsewhere but in Hong Kong it was very business-like,' the spokeswoman said. 'Cathay is a law-abiding company.'
Separately, Hirokazu Inoue, a spokesman for JAL said Asia's largest carrier had been raided.
'Our office in Frankfurt was raided by the European Union's anti-monopoly authorities,' Inoue said.
'We have nothing to say about the matter as it is still under investigation but we will fully cooperate with the authorities on the investigation,' he added.
EU inspectors raided the offices of major European airlines yesterday but did not name the companies.
British Airways, however, said earlier yesterday it has received a request for information from both the EU executive and the US Justice Department as part of a probe into a suspected cartel of airlines and air freight companies.
It added that it has always conformed with anti-trust regulations and will cooperate with the EU and US authorities.
Air France and Deutsche Lufthansa AG said they are being investigated by the EU executive and will fully cooperate.
http://www.forbes.com/business/feeds/afx/2...afx2527495.html
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I hope something can be invented, to keep the culture alive as well as making it safe.
Yes, they have...some village headmen suggested tying each lantern to a fishing rod. Once the candle extinguishes, the owner just pull-back the lantern as if they are reeling in the fish. Similar way to kite-flying.
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sky lanterns is like a swarm of pilotless hot air baloon. It's like a flying napalm
This photo was taken by a guy who lived in the same city as I am. One sky lantern crashed onto the siade of a building, and burnt up. Fire hazard and mess left by "crashed" lanterns are also un-environment friendly.
Daylight pic...structure in foreground with blue stripe is a petrol station.
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The fire was caused after several sky lanterns landed on the northern side of 1 rwy and started bush fires. Forcing CKS officials to close 1 rwy. The incident occured on Sunday night throughout early Monday morning in the wake of the the last day of CNY celebrations.
It is a custom for Taiwanese to launch sky lanterns, which carries their wishes for the year ahead. It was estimated that between 100,000 to 300,000 lanterns were launched on that night alone. These are obviously a hazard to air traffic, and ground as well.
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And.. woow.. nice FAT.. Never seen her before with my own eyes..
FAT = Far-eastern Air Transport Co. - a Taiwanese carrier which serves mainly domestic. They have int'l services, however, these are not daily. Mostly 757s and MDs.
Caught this rare bird, at least for me.. didn't know her origin anyone help??
UNI Air = UNI Air - also a Taiwanese domestic carrier. It is affiliated with Evergreen Group (the parent co. of EVA Air). Mostly MDs.
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Jaeju/Cheju/Jeju island is very beautiful...it was the setting for "Winter Sonanta" drama. 20years ago, it was so dull, mainly fishing villages. No one could have imaged how it will turn out to be today. It is also a notorious paradise for casinos hostess clubs...a place for officials to launder money from kickbacks.
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Video news capture of pink F/A is here:
http://www.ettoday.com/2006/01/25/162-1899119.htm
Routing discussion:
http://www.jadeair.com.tw/modules/ipboard/...?showtopic=1989
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Correct its airline logo...Frontier's logo is very simple, just those words. Nevertheless, Frontier's tails have become so recognizable that they have become as part of the airline's identity.