DOJ fines Boeing over $2.5 billion, charges it with fraud conspiracy over 737 Max crashes. The Department of Justice on Thursday said Boeing agreed to pay more than $2.5 billion to resolve criminal charges stemming from crashes of its best-selling 737 Max airplanes. “The tragic crashes of Lion Air Flight 610 and Ethiopian Airlines Flight…
A truck collided with a Wizz Air Airbus A320neo at Gdansk Airport, Poland. The incident took place on Thursday morning. The Wizz Air Airbus A320neo (reg. HA-LJB) was being prepared for departure from Gdańsk to Stockholm. The truck supplying the plane with water, hit the fuselage of the aircraft. There were no passengers on board…
A Spirit Airlines passenger has been charged with felony assault and harassment for punching a woman, allegedly because the woman’s children didn’t stop kicking the back of her seat. Daydrena Jaslin Walker-Wiliams was arrested at Portland International Airport. She pulled her luggage from an overhead bin and then punched Nataly Hernandez 2 to 3 times…
Amazon has bought 11 Boeing 767-300s from Delta Airlines and WestJet to expand its air freight network when the aircraft prices have dropped due to the pandemic. According to Amazon, the four WestJet planes will join Amazon Air fleet this year, while the seven Delta planes will be added after conversion in 2022. Amazon first…
On Tuesday, a Chinook from 28 Squadron based at RAF Benson made a precautionary landing in a field near Wantage following a mechanical issue. The aircraft soon sank into the field, likely due to the extended period of wet weather that UK experienced recently. RAF engineers deployed to the site to assess the mechanical issue…
Europe’s largest low-cost airline Ryanair slashed its annual traffic forecast by around five million passengers, describing the latest Covid-19 lockdown restrictions imposed by the UK and Irish governments as “draconian.” Amid the rapid spread of the highly contagious new variant of Covid-19, the carrier said it would operate “few, if any” flights in the region…
On Monday, Taiwan’s China Airlines has announced that it will be operating a Boeing 747-400 farewell flight in February. However, the airline did not disclose an exact date for the retirement of its remaining four 747-400s. The farewell flight will also include an exclusive ground tour and a flight over Japan’s Mount Fuji. It will…