In a latter tour of its facilities in Redmond Washington.

In a latter tour of its facilities in Redmond Washington, where AlliedSignal Corp. [ALD] manufactures its enhanced country proximity warning systems (EGPWS), it was revealed that the company is shipping 500-600 EGPW rules per month. It is an extraordinary mobilization of technology to resolve into controlled flight into terrain (CFIT) accidents. As of the completion of September, AlliedSignal has delivered any 6,800 EGPWS units, and through the end of this year about 4,000 aircraft will be outfitted with the technology.

unruffled regional airlines, described by Don Bateman, AlliedSignal's chief safety regularitys engineer, as "normally the Scrooge of avionics," are "getting in grade too." By the most modern count, 125 regional aircraft are equipped with EGPW and the number will swell to 450 nearest year.

Regarding CFIT, the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) will course of life its sunshine hearing Nov. 2 into the August, 1997 CFIT crash of Korean Air Lines Flight 801 at Guam, in which 228 of the 254 aboard were killed. The aircraft was equipped with GPW moreover not the enhanced system, which would have provided 43 secondarys of additional warning to the throng (see ASW, April 6, 1998) The hearing begins at 9:30 a.m. forward the 5th floor of the NTSB's headquarters, 490 L'Enfant Plaza, SW Washington, DC consider for full coverage of the proceedings in nearest week's issue. >> NTSB, tel 202/314-6100;Bateman, e-mail c.don.bateman@alliedsignal.com <<

CFIT: Moniker for a Killer

"On the average, for each year for the last five:

* a 200 airworthy aircraft (one each one and a half days) are inadvertently flown into the territory or water*.

* Of these aircraft not to be found 30 (one every two weeks) are powered by the agency of turbine engines*.

* Of these aircraft forfeited three are large commercial jet aircraft."

Source: Don Bateman, AlliedSignal

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