FlightAware announced today that United Airlines has integrated its predictive data tool into the airline's operational toolset to help decrease the instance of preventable delays; reduce missed passenger connections; and help prevent flight cancellations. FlightAware operates the world's largest flight tracking and data platform, fusing thousands of data sources around the world to provide the most accurate and comprehensive flight tracking intelligence. Over half of all estimated… (flightaware.com) 更多...
The rusting twin-engine Ilyushin Il-14P was found in Chersky, north Russia A photo shows Cold War tsar Khrushchev with the plane in the late 1950s It lies among other relics of Soviet aviation in the polar village's plane cemetery Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev's historic personal plane has been found rotting in an aircraft graveyard in the Arctic. The rusting twin-engine Ilyushin Il-14P, which he flew after succeeding Stalin in the Kremlin, was located in Chersky, in the north of… (www.dailymail.co.uk) 更多...
Heart Aerospace on Wednesday unveiled the electric propulsion system that will power the ES-19 regional airliner it claims will be ready to enter commercial service in the summer of 2026. The Swedish company, which is backed by EQT Ventures, also announced that it has secured €2.5 million ($2.9 million) in financial support from the European Innovation Council Green Deal Accelerator Program. The 19-seat ES-19 features four propellers powered by electric motors. The preliminary design for the… (www.ainonline.com) 更多...
A pilot's inability to maintain proper airspeed and the flight crew's decision to continue an unstable approach and landing likely caused the crash of a small plane carrying race car driver Dale Earnhardt Jr. and his family in 2019, according to a National Transportation Safety Board report released Wednesday. The NTSB's final accident report points to actions by the pilot and co-pilot in the Aug. 15, 2019 plane crash at an airport in Elizabethton, Tennessee. Earnhardt was with… (www.yahoo.com) 更多...
JetBlue has today (22 September) said that it will start four new routes from Hartford: to Cancun, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, and San Francisco. These four markets had over 365,000 passengers last year, OAG Traffic Analyser, using MIDT booking data, shows. 86% were indirect. JetBlue’s four new routes add to multiple other leisure-driven services it has announced recently in its understandable pursuit of the leisure dollar given stronger demand from this segment. And they are the latest in its… (www.anna.aero) 更多...
The Brazilian aircraft manufacturer worsened in situations with the break of partnership with Boeing and with the time of the pandemic... (cmsherbert.blogspot.com) 更多...
Includes the final report in the article: A Transaven Let L-410, registration YV2081 performing a scheduled flight from Caracas to Los Roques (Venezuela) with 12 passengers and 2 crew, was enroute about 12nm southsouthwest of Los Roques Island Airport (64nm northnortheast of Caracas) when the crew reported both engines had failed and they were descending through 3000 feet trying to reach the coral reefs around Los Roques, which proved to be the last radio contact. Another Transaven L410 overflew… (avherald.com) 更多...
Throughout September, Colombia has resumed commercial airline operations. Domestic flights were allowed back to the skies on Sept. 1 and international fights restarted on Sept. 19. As the country continues to reopen its skies, Colombia announced it will be reopening 63 domestic routes from major cities such as Bogotá, Medellin, Cali and Cartagena, according to Latin American portal Aviaciónline. In a document distributed by Colombia’s civil aviation authority, as part of the nation’s second… (airlinegeeks.com) 更多...
