First Allegiant Boeing order is for 757s
Until now, Allegiant Air has operated MD-80s. Now they are acquiring B757s in preparation for its new service to Hawaii.
Allegiant said Friday that it expects to spend $75 million to $90 million through 2012 acquiring and preparing the 757s for service. Allegiant said it has the ability to acquire and prepare the aircraft for cash, but expects to finance some portion of the purchase.
NTSB: Pilots need air-hazard skills
The National Transportation Safety Board said that commercial pilots would benefit from new flight simulators that can teach them how to recover from out-of-control situations.
Pilots at airlines receive almost no hands-on training in how to recover from aerodynamic stalls and other extreme scenarios, according to the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB). The reason for the glaring shortfall is that current flight simulators, the backbone of airline training programs, cannot accurately reproduce such calamities.
Years of research in the military and NASA has led to new simulators that accurately represent how planes behave in stalls, severe icing and other crash scenarios, according to the NTSB and scientists — but there is no federal requirement to use those simulators.
Las Vegas plane makes emergency landing
A SkyWest plane, operating as United Express from Las Vegas, was forced to make an emergency landing at Fresno-Yosemite International Airport.
Airline spokeswoman Robin Urbanski said United Express Flight 6237, which was being operated by SkyWest Airlines, was traveling from Las Vegas to Fresno on Monday night when the pilot shut down one of the engines “as a precautionary measure” while approaching the airport.
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