Boeing statement: On every airplane delivered to our customers, including the MAX, all flight data and information needed to safely operate the aircraft is provided in the flight deck on the primary flight deck displays. This information is provided full-time in the pilots’ primary field of view, and it always has been. Air speed, attitude,…
A Sukhoi Superjet 100 landed in fire at at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo Airport. Flight #SU1492 to Murmansk declared a radio failure shortly after departure from Moscow and then a general emergency. Please reload for updates… UPDATE 7 Wreckage of Aeroflot Superjet 100 has been removed today at Moscow Sheremetyevo Airport. UPDATE 6 According to Russian media…
Nordwind Airlines aircraft has been damaged by a truck at Moscow-Sheremetyevo Airport. The Airbus A321 (reg. VQ-BOD) has been damaged when a truck slammed into the fuselage at Moscow-Sheremetyevo Airport. Reports say the driver fell alseep.
A military charter flight from Guantanamo Bay carrying 142 people overshot a runway Friday night, at the Jacksonville Naval Air Station, and ended up in the water. Miami Air #LL293 arriving at NAS Jacksonville from NAS Guantanamo Bay went off the end of the runway into the river on landing at about 9:40 p.m. local…
Air Arabia is likely to place an order for 100 aircraft in the next three or four months, according to CEO Adel Ali. Speaking on a panel at the Arabian Travel Market in Dubai, Ali said that the airline had yet to take a decision on what aircraft it would order, but said that it…
An 11-year-old girl somehow survived after she was carried alone in a hot air balloon for seven miles in Crimea. The child had gone for a ride with her parents, another adult and an instructor. But the balloon hit the ground and all passengers except the girl fell out of the basket before it rose…
Air India has been forced to ground as many as 20 of its aircraft from a fleet of 127 due to lack of funds to replace their engines, a senior official has said. The debt-ridden airline, surviving on public doles, needs at least Rs. 1,500 crore to get new engines for these planes, and with…
Fiji Airways has adopted the A350 XWB as part of its expansion plans to broaden its international network. Two A350-900s will be leased from Dubai based DAE Capital, making Fiji Airways the newest operator and DAE Capital the latest customer. With its common type rating with the A330 Family, the A350 XWB was the natural…
A Ryanair and a Jet2 aircraft have been involved in a minor collision at East Midlands Airport this morning. The two aircraft clipped each other in fog this morning at about 07:50 BST. One of the aircraft was a stationary plane. A spokesman for the airport said it involved Ryanair and Jet2 planes but there…
Boeing statement: We want to provide a response to several news stories yesterday and today reporting on the disagree alert on the 737 MAX. Boeing included the disagree alert as a standard feature on the MAX, although this alert has not been considered a safety feature on airplanes and is not necessary for the safe…
Boeing did not tell its largest 737MAX customer Southwest Airlines, that a standard safety feature designed to warn pilots about malfunctioning sensors had been deactivated. The safety feature is an alert that lights up in the cockpit if a plane’s angle-of-attack sensors transmit faulty data about the pitch of the plane’s nose. This feature is…
Saturday, April 14, a stowaway survived hidden inside the landing gear of the plane from Guadeloupe to Guyana. The circumstances are still not clear but a man was able to reach an Air France aircraft at Pointe à Pitre International Airport. The stowaway entered the landing gear compartment before the aircraft took off to Félix…