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   Accident - A description of the events leading up to the accident and the accident itself, additional headings and alternate headings (like Ditching) can be used related to the nature of the accident. May use subheadings for "Background", "Weather conditions", etc to put the flight in context.

   Aircraft - A description of the aircraft to include the make and model and registration. Other information on the aircraft should only be included if related to the accident.

   Crew - Details about the number of flight and cabin crew. Information on the experience and training of the flight crew may be included.

   Passengers - Information about the number of passengers, fatalities, injuries and survivors. Information on the nationalities involved should be included. Optionally, notable passengers may be recorded but should be limited to individuals with a Wikipedia article. Information including ethnic or religious backgrounds and school affliations should not be included.

   Ground damage and fatalities - Information on casualties on the ground and significant damage to buildings and infrastructure.

Sun Times article: damage to airfield UPS damage

   Aftermath - The activities that happened after the accident, to include information on the "Search and rescue" and "Recovery" phases of the accident.

Evacuation: Sun Times: noise and captain didn't know; passengers blown away, luggage

   Investigation - A description or summary of the investigation it should first identify and link to the official bodies involved in the investigation. This will normally include the lead national investigator and regulator, with investigators from the states of the airline(s) and of the manufacturer(s) of the aircraft and of any relevant equipment (particularly engines).

Investigation and Recommendations: Engine Inspections; Procedures (current headings)

https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/american-airlines-flight-383-fire-pilot-blind-spots-hurt-cockpit-crew-pilot-response-burning-jet-ohare/ NTSB investigators found a turbine disk in the right engine fractured, leading to an “uncontained engine failure” and “a pool fire under the right wing.”

One or more of the disk fractures “exhibited features consistent with fatigue cracking,” according to the NTSB. That can occur when there’s a “microscopic impurity” in the materials, and heat and other stress can exploit such cracks over time, experts said.

GE Aviation, which made the engine, has issued a “service bulletin” advising anyone still using this type of engine built between 1984 and 2000 to have it inspected, said company spokesman Rick Kennedy, adding there are likely fewer than 1,000 such engines still in use. “We have received no notifications from anybody” of the same flaws, Kennedy said

Some of them were injured coming down the chute, with one passenger telling investigators “no one was there to assist” and “he tumbled off the slide,” only to stand up and get “blown over by the thrust coming out of the back of the engine,” records show.

Flight attendants had complaints about passengers, too, relaying stories of at least two refusing to leave their bags, even as a flight attendant tried to tug one away, records show.

One flight attendant suggested to the NTSB a potential solution was to issue “fines” for “passengers who take luggage” against commands.

Some of them were injured coming down the chute, with one passenger telling investigators “no one was there to assist” and “he tumbled off the slide,” only to stand up and get “blown over by the thrust coming out of the back of the engine,” records show.

Flight attendants had complaints about passengers, too, relaying stories of at least two refusing to leave their bags, even as a flight attendant tried to tug one away, records show.

One flight attendant suggested to the NTSB a potential solution was to issue “fines” for “passengers who take luggage” against commands.

10/28/2017, 12:35am Cockpit blind spots hampered crew response to burning jet at O’Hare

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WENThis user is NOT an employee or receives payment from
WestJet Encore but did nominate that article for DYK

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Airports served by scheduled WestJet Encore flights (two airports in the United States out of the mapped area)

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Unlike other terminals, where automobile circulation had traditionally been confined to the front of the building and baggage movement to the back, circulation was facilitated by divided roadways to the virtual elimination of surface congestion. With a drop-off platform in front of the terminal and a pick-up platform at back, curbside access was effectively doubled. (Baggage movement was relocated underground).

The terminal itself was designed for simplicity, restraint and high visibility amid the airport's clutter of unrelated, assertive buildings. Using glass as a primary building material — a first in U.S. airport construction — the terminal consists of two rectangular pavilions for arrivals and departures interconnected with two cylindrical satellites for boarding / deplaning. The main (departures) pavilion is surrounded by double-height window walls hung from a space frame and supported by concrete columns outside the building. The open solution allowed great internal flexibility and proved readily adaptable, while the terminal was under construction, to modifications required by the introduction of 747 jumbo jets.

Departure Pavilion 60,630 s/f; 43'-0" high (2 floors above grade, 1 below)

Arrival Pavilion 68,460 s/f; 21'-10" high (2 floors above grade, 1 below)

Satellites 60,840 s/f; 25'-6" high (2 floors above grade, 1 below)

Basement Tunnels 162,400 s/f

Awards

1972

City Club of New York: Albert S. Bard Award

1970

Concrete Industry Board Award

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http://avherald.com/h?article=4aeff1ac Accident: Westjet Encore DH8D at Calgary on Sep 18th 2017, turbulence injures both flight attendants By Simon Hradecky, created Thursday, Sep 28th 2017 19:55Z, last updated Thursday, Sep 28th 2017 19:59Z

A Westjet Encore de Havilland Dash 8-400, registration C-FQWE performing flight WS-3304 from Nanaimo,BC to Calgary,AB (Canada) with 76 passengers and 4 crew, was descending through 15,000 feet towards Calgary about 38nm southwest of Calgary when the aircraft encountered severe turbulence causing the autopilot to disconnect. The captain, so far pilot monitoring, took control of the aircraft and returned the aircraft to stable flight, then returned the controls to the first officer. A short time later the lead flight attendant contacted the flight deck via the emergency call and reported both flight attendants were injured, the #2 flight attendants had received a serious injury and was unable to continue duties. The flight crew requested medical services to meet the aircraft on arrival. The lead flight attendant prepared the cabin for landing and briefed passengers for the emergency operation of the doors. The aircraft landed without further incident and taxied to the gate, where ambulances and medics awaited the aircraft.

The Canadian TSB reported there were no injuries to the passengers and no damage to the aircraft. The occurrence was rated an accident, no investigation was opened.

Incidents and Accidents

WestJet Encore flight 3304 flying from Nanaimo, BC to Calgary on ________ was decending at 38 nm from Calgary when the aircraft, registration C-FQWE, encouraged severe turbulance. Both flight attendants were injured, one with a serious injury causing an inability to continue work duties. The other flight attendant prepared the cabin for emergency operation of the doors but taxied to the gate where ambulances were waiting. There was no damage to the aircraft or passenger injuries. The TSB rated the incident as an accident.

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Development

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British Aerospace will receive a $200 million loan from the U.K. government to develop the wings of the new Airbus A340-500/600 aircraft, Margaret Beckett, the British minister of industry, said yesterday in London. http://aviationweek.com/awin/uk-lend-bae-200-million-development-a340-500600-wings

Singapore Airlines only operates five of the A340 aircraft, but they are unique in using them to fly the world’s two longest flights: Los Angeles (LAX) and Newark (EWR) to Singapore (SIN). Flight SQ21, from EWR to SIN, is the longest scheduled airline flight in the world, which is 9,535 miles and takes almost 19 hours. Flight SQ 37, from LAX to SIN, is the world’s second longest flight at 8,770 miles and takes about 18 hours. Both of these flights exclusively use the Airbus A340-500 aircraft. “What the aircraft does is create a non-stop link between the US and Singapore for growth,” James Boyd, Singapore Airline’s Vice President of Communications for the Americas explained to AirlineReporter.com.

At the time that Singapore Airlines started the flights, the A340-500 was the only aircraft capable of operating routes that long. Even today, there are only two aircraft that are able to handle the route: the A340-500 and Boeing 777-200LR.

Even though Singapore Airlines also operates the 777, Boyd explained that they are not planning on replacing their A340-500s anytime soon. Recently the airline invested quite a bit of money updating all five cabins on their A340s to all Business Class, providing

http://www.airlinereporter.com/2012/01/a-farewell-to-the-airbus-a340/

Design

adding a wing box insert to previous A340 designs, which increases the chord of the wing by three full frames, or 5.6 feet, at the fuselage, tapering to the wingtip. This accomplished several things simultaneously. Overall wing area increased by 28 percent to 4,704 square feet, and more significantly, internal wing fuel volume increased 38 percent to 49,353 gallons (330,700 lbs at 6.7 lbs/gal).

The wing box insert changed the airplane’s aerodynamic characteristics. The wing span increased by 10.8 feet with a wingtip extension, but aspect ratio actually decreased from 9.26 to 8.57. The wing became more swept, moving from 29.7 to 31.1 degrees. Increasing the chord at constant thickness reduces the thickness ratio of the airfoil by 2 percent.

The increased sweep and decreased thickness ratio combined to make the airfoil more supercritical, pushing the divergence drag mach number higher, which moved the design cruise speed up to Mach .825. Airbus uses Mach × L/D as a measure of cruise efficiency, and has been able to increase efficiency in the A340-500 by 2 percent over the A340-300.

Selecting the engine was an interesting challenge. The original A340-200 and –300 are powered by four CFM56-5C4s, rated at 31,200 to 34,000 lbs of thrust. Airbus asked Rolls Royce to develop a new engine, the RR Trent 500, rated at 56,000 lbs thrust for the A340-600, and 53,000 lbs of thrust for the A340-500. To accomplish this, Rolls Royce took the Trent 700 fan, fan case, and accessories and mated them to the core of the Trent 800. The Trent 800 has a number of internal improvements, including a 3-D compressor blade design, and higher turbine blade speeds to reduce aerodynamic loading while improving efficiency. The resultant higher bypass ratio and internal efficiency of the Trent 500 design provides 7 percent lower specific fuel consumption than the Trent 700.

With the design nearly set for significantly increased range, Airbus engineers, seeking to keep the airframe as light as possible to further improve the weight fraction, used advanced materials throughout the airframe—carbon fiber for the complete horizontal tail, aft pressure bulkhead, and keel beams; titanium in the engine pylons; and lighter weight, higher strength aluminum alloys for numerous skin panels. The use of carbon fiber in critical areas may be surprising, but this proven technology was expanded in the A340 family and will be applied extensively in developing the A380.

The airplane we flew was A340-541, ship number 0394, the first A340-500 that Airbus manufactured. It was in a test configuration, with a water ballast system installed, and an engineer’s station in the forward part of the cabin. Our tes

new features of the A340-500/600. The electric rudder feel system provides positive control, and small corrections can be made during taxi without the steering feeling crisp or heavy. Normal ground steering through the tiller is improved with installation of a damper, making ground handling very positive for an airplane of this size and weight. The TACS allowed precise turns with a simple technique: when approaching the turn, allow the curved taxi line to track down the fuselage until it meets the wing line, then start the turn and keep the line on the fuselage/wing intersection.

Takeoff trim is set automatically at engine start, depending on what information the pilot enters in the FMGC. If the trim setting inserted on the MCDU Perf page does not agree with the position of the trim wheel, a PITCH TRIM MCDU/CG DISAGREE caution message will appear. For this Flaps 3 takeoff, the cg was 30.0 percent MAC. The pilots are responsible for checking that the proper information is inserted. We would prefer that the normal method of setting pitch trim refer to percentage cg rather than to index units. The use of percentage cg would eliminate errors of + and – ambiguity, and make the pilots more aware of actual cg location at takeoff.

Lining up for Runway 33, Capt. Cox advanced the thrust levers for a FLEX thrust takeoff. TOGA thrust for the A340-500 is 53,000 lbs per engine, which is derated for Vmcg considerations because the -500 has a shorter fuselage than the -600. When the thrust levers are in the MCT/CL (max continuous thrust/climb) detent, thrust is the same as on the longer A340-600.

Changing the wing, increasing fuel capacity, using lighter weight materials, and lowering specific fuel consumption are the significant engineering challenges that Airbus has successfully met with the design of the A340-500/600. They have used the advantages of the fly-by-wire control system by adapting it to changes in the airframe, without creating hardware changes in the flight control system itself. A good example is the soft protection designed to prevent tailstrikes on takeoff and landing. The impression that we had when manually flying the airplane was that we were flying a large airplane with precise control response similar to that of the A32

http://crewroom.alpa.org/alpa/DesktopModules/ViewDocument.aspx?DocumentID=1933

Specifications

http://www.airbus.com/aircraftfamilies/previous-generation-aircraft/a340family/a340-500/

same as a340 article

References

1st flight February 11, 2002, certificated 10 months later Emirates launch customer, used first on DXB-JFK longest range until 777-200LR in 2006

-500 232'9" length, 14 ' longer than -300 but 50% more fuel capacity SQ SIN-EWR and LAX (ended in 2013 due to fuel costs per http://www.thenational.ae/business/aviation/singapore-airlines-replaces-boeing-777-on-two-stop-route) 313 passengers, 8650 nm center bogie has 4 wheels instead of 2 in the -200/300

-500IGW 9200 nm range source for above: https://airwaysmag.com/airchive/flashback-the-airbus-a340-program/

Bribery probe in Thailand for Thai Airways purchase of -500 (4 purchased) and -600, which are now idle http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/general/1187485/bribe-probe-hits-snag-as-nacc-claims-info-dries-up

35 A-340-500 produced http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/general/1187485/bribe-probe-hits-snag-as-nacc-claims-info-dries-up

Presidential fleet in Italy (registered as I-TALY), former Etihad. 2016 from https://www.fromtheskies.it/airbus-a340-500-il-nuovo-aereo-della-presidenza-del-consiglio/

There were multiple reactions to the Las Vegas concert shooting which occurred on October 1, 2017. The reactions from multiple individuals became newsworthy and the subject of news articles specifically on commentary and reactions.

Background

On October 1, 2017, there was a shooting at the Route 91 Harvest country music festival, a 3 day event in Las Vegas, Nevadain the United States. 60 people were killed and at least 515 people injured.

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• British Columbia One of the first deceased names released was a resident of Maple Ridge, BC. British Columbia Premier John Horgan ordered flags flown at half mast and released a statement. "The senseless acts of violence in Las Vegas are horrifying and incomprehensible. Our hearts are with all those affected by last night’s shooting. Jordan McIldoon of Maple Ridge was among those who lost their lives. He was 23 years old. The flags at the Parliament Buildings in Victoria and Provincial Government Buildings in Maple Ridge will be dropped to half-mast to honour him."

• Canada Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of Canada had a statement which read "Our hearts break for our American friends and neighbours today. On behalf of all Canadians, I offer my deepest condolences to those who lost loved ones and friends, and my prayers for a fast and full recovery for the many injured. We stand with the United States, and share their pain and horror at such a senseless and cowardly act of violence."

“This city is a destination for people from around the world, and we are following up on reports of Canadian victims. Consular officials are in close contact with local authorities."

Shelton Adelson private A340-500 from http://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/1.762882