Matt Molnar
2008-05-28, 12:29 PM
Times of London:
Budget airline Flyglobespan charged over ‘danger’ flight (http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/transport/article3999421.ece)
Insight: Michael Gillard and Jonathan Calvert
A budget airline is to be prosecuted for endangering the safety of passengers after allowing a 757 jet to fly “illegally” to America with faulty instruments.
The case against Flyglobespan, which flies more than 2.2m passengers a year to 30 destinations, will be the first criminal prosecution against a British airline for more than a decade.
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The inquiry centred on a 12-year-old Boeing 757 which flew between Liverpool, Knock, in the west of Ireland, and New York. As the jet was taking off from JFK airport on June 28 last year both its engine pressure ratio gauges failed. The pilot reported the faults when he reached Liverpool.
The plane, which carries more than 200 people, should have been grounded until at least one of the gauges had been fixed. But the airline authorised it to fly back across the Atlantic with neither gauge functioning. [Full Article (http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/transport/article3999421.ece)]
Budget airline Flyglobespan charged over ‘danger’ flight (http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/transport/article3999421.ece)
Insight: Michael Gillard and Jonathan Calvert
A budget airline is to be prosecuted for endangering the safety of passengers after allowing a 757 jet to fly “illegally” to America with faulty instruments.
The case against Flyglobespan, which flies more than 2.2m passengers a year to 30 destinations, will be the first criminal prosecution against a British airline for more than a decade.
...
The inquiry centred on a 12-year-old Boeing 757 which flew between Liverpool, Knock, in the west of Ireland, and New York. As the jet was taking off from JFK airport on June 28 last year both its engine pressure ratio gauges failed. The pilot reported the faults when he reached Liverpool.
The plane, which carries more than 200 people, should have been grounded until at least one of the gauges had been fixed. But the airline authorised it to fly back across the Atlantic with neither gauge functioning. [Full Article (http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/transport/article3999421.ece)]