The low-cost airline becomes the aviation industry’s largest casualty of the pandemic. Norwegian said late on Wednesday that two of its main subsidiaries would file for examinership in Ireland, a reorganisation process akin to filing for Chapter 11 in the US. The airline said it would use the reorganisation to cut its vast debt pile,…
The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) today rescinded the order that halted commercial operations of Boeing (NYSE: BA) 737-8s and 737-9s. The move will allow airlines that are under the FAA’s jurisdiction, including those in the U.S., to take the steps necessary to resume service and Boeing to begin making deliveries. “We will never forget…
On Wednesday November 18, Boeing received U.S. approval to resume flights of its grounded 737 MAX. The Boeing 737 Max is cleared to fly again after a 20-month ban prompted by two fatal crashes that sent the company into a crisis, but the planes are returning to a different problem. The FAA decision comes as…
The Qantas Boeing 787-9 suffered a tailstrike during take off from London Heathrow. The Boeing 787-9 Qantas plane, which had 237 people on the flight at the time, was shaken by strong winds causing it to smack into the runway. The pilot was forced to make an emergency landing at Heathrow due to the incident after the…
Taiwan has grounded all of its F16 fighter jets for safety checks as rescuers continue to search for one that went missing during a training exercise, authorities said Wednesday. The decision removes around 150 planes from Taiwan’s skies, leaving the democratic island relying on an even more limited fleet to warn off Chinese jets that…
While training in Dubai, Vince Reffet, member of the Soul Flyer duo, accidentally died. Enter a plane in mid-flight , soar from the tallest tower in the world, the Burj Khalifa (828 m) in Dubai, fly alongside an A380 or alongside the Patrouille de France. All these spectacular feats are the work of “the flying…