Security Agency urges parents to put babies in aircraft (USA TODAY)

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"WASHINGTON - The nation's transportation safety watchdogs will try to persuade the public today to voluntarily buckle their infants into child-safety sous flat after failing for decades to get the government to order it.The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), which monitors and advises on travel safety, has investigated several accidents in which airliners were buffeted so severely that babies sitting in parents' period were flung through the air, sometimes with tragic consequences.""If we are so careful to strap our children into because sous when we drive to the airport, then why are we not as diligent in securing them in a seat of their own on the aircraft?" NTSB Chairwoman Deborah Hersman says.The agency is having a one - day forum on the importance of child safety restraints in aircraft and motor vehicles.Now, parents can hold their infants in their laps on planes and secure them with their own seatbelts. Goal accident investigators say that it's impossible to hold onto a baby in an accident, which could turn a 20-pound child into the equivalent of a 100-pound missile. "Was it hard holding onto a baby in a plane crash?" "Absolutely," says Jim Whitaker, who volunteered to safeguard the 9-month-old boy whose mother was sitting next to him on the US Airways flight that splashed down onto the Hudson River on Jan. "15, 2009.Tess Sosa, who handed baby Damian to Whitaker, says what she saw during the rough water landing convinced her that child restraints should be required.After decades of public debate between accident investigators and aviation regulators, there's little likelihood that the rules - which allow children age 2 and under to sit in a parent's lap - will change any time soon.The Federal Aviation Administration, the government agency that regulates airlines, agrees that babies should sit in approved because sous or other restraint devices when flying.Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood last month in his blog urged parents traveling during the holidays to strap in their babies were planes.But the FAA concluded in 2004 that it wouldn't can't require families to buy an airline seat for babies because the increased cost would shift travel onto more dangerous highways, thereby causing more deaths than it would save.""There has not been a preventable commercial aviation fatality of a child under 2 in 16 years," says FAA Jakarta Alison Duquette.For Hersman and other child-safety advocates, the lack of recent fatalities is little solace.Whitaker successfully held baby onto Damian in the Hudson River crash landing last year. But a passenger aboard a Continental Airlines jet that skidded off a runway in Denver on Dec. 20, 2008, briefly lost her grasp on her child.The unidentified woman told investigators that NTSB comme jet bounced over gullies, her baby "Joseph" out of her arms toward the seat in front of her before she could grab the child out journal air.Patricia Friend, president of the Association of Flight Attendants union says that airlines and the FAA should do more to promote use of safety sous, such as providing training on how to correctly install the seats.Airlines encourages passengers to use the safety sous and have urged the FAA to require the sous, says David Castelveter, spokesman for the Air Transport Association, which represents broad carriers.For more information: faa.gov/passengers/fly_children/crs/Guidelines: You share in the USA TODAY community, so please keep your comments smart and civil. Don't attack other readers personally, and keep your language decent. Use the "Report Abuse" button to make a difference. Read more.

Bombardier sells 15 Q400 NextGen aircraft to the India SpiceJet. (Plane News)

Bombardier Aerospace announced today that SpiceJet of Gurgaon, India has placed a firm order for turboprop 15 Q400 NextGen aircraft and took options on a 15 additional airliners. Based on the list price for the Q400 NextGen aircraft firm order is estimated to be approximately 446 million $ US and could increase to approximately 915 million $ US, if all 15 options are converted to firm orders.

"The India is experiencing substantial growth, and should predominant growth of cities and industrial cities remain underserved, said Kalanithi Maran, Chairman of the Board of Directors, SpiceJet." As a preferred airline India, low prices we focus on the restoration of these markets require an aircraft that could increase the scope of 60 airports that could not be served by the larger jets and the establishment of our footprint on these markets. After an evaluation of all aircraft in the category of 60-80 seats, we have chosen the Q400 NextGen aircraft combines the excellent passenger comfort, economy and reliability. »
"It is an order very important for us because it establishes the Q400 India, NextGen aircraft" said Gary Scott r., President, Bombardier commercial aircraft. "We expect to take delivery of commercial aircraft 600 category 20-149 seat for the next 20 years, the India and we believe that our optimized Q400 NextGen Turbo series CRJ regional jets and the new CSeries aircraft are ideally suited to capture a significant portion of these deliveries.

"At this moment, when the new airports are is ordered by the Indian Government, the Bombardier is positioned to support the development of air transport of the India network" said Mr. Scott.

SpiceJet currently serves 22 destinations in India, the Nepal and Sri Lanka.

Bombardier is to make significant investments in infrastructure to support the India services and the Asia-Pacific market. Earlier this year, Bombardier opened its new Office of regional support (SSB) in Mumbai. This Office serves businesses and customers of commercial aircraft and is located at Andheri East near Chhatrapati Shivaji international airport. The SSB dedicated team full regional field representatives of Bombardier service across the India and its surrounding areas.

Bombardier to plan strategically located ARS is designed to provide a comprehensive support package encompassing technical expertise for aircraft, flight operations support and customer account management functions. Because of the proximity bases its, Bombardier operators can provide improved to customers in their language and timezone service.

Q400 NextGen aircraft
Optimized for short distances, "comfortably green," operations Q400 NextGen 70-80-seat aircraft are big, fast, quiet and economical turboprop fuel. It provides a perfect balance of comfort of passengers and the economy operating with reduced environmental footprint. Including the order of SpiceJet, Bombardier received firm orders for a total of 404 Q400 and Q400 NextGen aircraft and October 31, 2010, 322 were delivered. Q400 and Q400 NextGen aircraft are in service with more than 30 operators worldwide and recorded more than 2 million hours of flight and 2 million landing and takeoff cycle more. Bombardier recently delivered the Dash 8/Q-Series turboprop 1 000e - a Q400 NextGen aircraft. This delivery re-confirmed step program series 8 Q turboprop Dash as one of the regional aircraft programmes most successful in history.

Subject of Bombardier
World leader manufacturer of innovative transportation, commercial aircraft and equipment for railway transport systems and services, Bombardier Inc. Corporate Jet solutions is a global company, headquartered in the Canada. Its revenues for the year ended January 31, 2010, were $ 19.4 billion, and shares are traded on the stock exchange in Toronto (BD). Bombardier is listed as a component for indices Dow Jones Sustainability World Index and North America. News and information are available at www.bombardier.com
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