An An-26 plane has crashed near the city of Chuguev in the Kharkov region of Ukraine during landing, Ukrainian Air Force Command said Friday. According to the command, there were injuries and deaths, but the head of the Kharkov region, Oleksiy Kucher, said that there were also survivors in the crash. Please reload for updates:…
A PSA Airlines CRJ-900LR, flying on behalf of American Eagle suffered en-flight windshield crack when it was descending towards Burlington. The CRJ-900 was carrying 45 people on board. The aircraft was operating American Airlines flight #AA5513 from Charlotte Douglas International Airport to Burlington International Airport. The crew reported a cracked windshield while the aircraft was…
Airline Avianca Holdings came under broad criticism in Colombia for paying its top two executives US$6 million in bonuses in May, at a time when the carrier had furloughed most of its employees without pay and was preparing a bankruptcy filing. According to bankruptcy court documents submitted by Avianca itself, the airline paid chief executive…
The U.S. aviation regulator should require new cockpit procedures for Boeing 737 MAX to help pilots disable an erroneous stall alert that could be a serious distraction during mid-flight emergencies, major pilots unions said on Monday. The proposal about an erroneous “stick shaker” alert is among recommendations the Air Line Pilots Association (ALPA) and the…
Initial assembly has recently been completed on the last ever superjumbo, after it was announced in 2019 that the European airplane manufacturers were discontinuing the plane. Initial assembly of msn 272, the last Airbus A380 is completed, it was transferred from station 40 to station 35. Initial assembly of the final double-decker jet, serial number…
Iran’s Mehr news says that Iran refurbished a Boeing 747 in a complete overhaul using local engineers. According to a report, this plane will fly to the UAE and then back to Payam Karaj in Iran but it is not clear what the plane’s overall future is. It comes as Iran is preparing for the…