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Tasman Cargo Airlines will operate five times a week between Australia and Singapore. Australian-based Tasman Cargo Airlines has launched scheduled freighter services between Singapore and Australia. The airline operates five weekly services on a Melbourne-Darwin-Singapore (bi-directional) route using a B767-300F aircraft and is the first Australia-based freighter operator with operations at Changi Airport. Chartered by express integrator DHL.
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Boeing 767 freighter departs with fuel imbalance condition
The flight crew of a Boeing 767 freighter did not consult the minimum equipment list (MEL) and continued their departure from Auckland Airport on a scheduled service to Sydney following a fuel configuration advisory alert message as the aircraft approached the departure runway, an ATSB investigation found.
The flight crew, consisting of the captain as pilot monitoring and the first officer as pilot flying, commenced duty at about 9:30 am on 27 July 2017 for a 11:45 am departure. After completion of engine start at 11:40 am, the fuel panel was correctly configured with fuel distributed as 6.6 t and 6.5 t in the left and right main tanks and 7.9 t in the main centre tank.