With the Federal Aviation Administration facing mounting scrutiny domestically and overseas, the White House said it plans to nominate Steve Dickson, a former senior Delta Air Lines official, as permanent head of the agency. The pick comes as the FAA is struggling to regain its footing after two deadly crashes of Boeing 737 MAX jetliners within five months, tragedies that have prompted questions about the agency’s safety approvals of the models. Dickson couldn’t immediately be reached for… (www.foxnews.com) 更多...
The pilots of a doomed Lion Air Boeing 737 MAX scoured a handbook as they struggled to understand why the jet was lurching downwards, but ran out of time before it hit the water, three people with knowledge of the cockpit voice recorder contents said. (uk.reuters.com) 更多...
MONTREAL — Air Canada says it intends to remove its grounded Boeing 737 Max 8 jets from service until at least July 1 in order to provide more certainty for passengers that wish to book flights in the coming months. (montrealgazette.com) 更多...
Flydubai Flight 981 was a scheduled international passenger flight that crashed during an aborted landing at Rostov-on-Don Airport, Russia, on 19 March 2016, resulting in the deaths of all 62 passengers and crew on board. The flight, operated with a Boeing 737-800 aircraft, had originated from Dubai International Airport, in the United Arab Emirates. The weather at Rostov was poor at the time. Flight 981 aborted its first landing attempt and went into a holding pattern for nearly two hours… (en.wikipedia.org) 更多...
Troubles continue to mount for Jet Airways as their financial state continues to worsen. In addition to their inability to pay off debt, Jet Airways is facing a pilot strike if they cannot pay salaries. Jet Airways’ pilots have set the deadline to receive salaries by April 1, 2019. (simpleflying.com) 更多...
Consider it a lesson in why you should always, always read the manual: A Boeing 747 freighter aircraft got tail-happy in an unexpected way at Qatar's Doha International Airport, when a weight imbalance reportedly brought about by improper unloading procedures caused it to tip backwards onto its tail and thrust the nose of the jumbo jet into the air. (www.thedrive.com) 更多...
Air Canada is removing flights on Boeing 737 Max aircraft from its bookings until 1 July as the airline is uncertain how long the 24 Max 8 aircraft in its fleet will remain grounded for safety reasons. (www.flightglobal.com) 更多...
Planes have been flying with the aid of computers for so long that the term “autopilot” has become part of the language, usually meaning a situation of calm predictability. Yet an automated computer feature is suspected by investigators to be a factor in the crash of a Boeing 737 Max operated by the Indonesian carrier Lion Air — and possibly in another one flown by Ethiopian Air five months later. (www.washingtonpost.com) 更多...
Passengers have been forced to restrain a woman after she tried to open an exit door on a plane midway through a flight from Indianapolis to Detroit. The incident occurred shortly after takeoff on Delta flight 5972 on Monday night. The woman had attempted to pry open the door above the left wing, authorities said. (www.itravelapp.net) 更多...
The cost of buying, equipping, and preparing to operate the two Boeing 747s that will become the next Air Force One presidential transport aircraft is now pegged at $5.3 billion, nearly one-third more than the figure routinely touted by the White House, according to Air Force officials and Pentagon budget documents (www.govexec.com) 更多...
Boeing has “a severe situation” in an assembly-line culture that allowed tools and parts to be left inside tankers delivered to the U.S. Air Force, the service’s acquisition chief said Wednesday. (www.govexec.com) 更多...
Boeing et les autorités américaines sont dans une position de plus en plus délicate, sommés désormais par la justice de faire la lumière sur la certification du 737 Max après l’accident de Lion Air et celui d’Ethiopia Airlines, survenus à quatre mois et demi d’intervalle. Le 11 mars, soit le lendemain de la tragédie du vol Addis-Abeba–Nairobi, la justice a assigné au moins une personne impliquée dans le développement du programme 737 Max à fournir des documents, incluant des lettres, des… (www.ledevoir.com) 更多...
Southwest Airlines on March 17 operated its first scheduled flight to Hawaii from the Mainland. Flight WN 6808, a 5.5-hour nonstop flight from Oakland, arrived in Honolulu with the traditional water cannon salute and leis. The new route is operated with its Boeing 737-800 ETOPS. The first flight was operated with Boeing 737-8H4 N8329B. Another inaugural flight from Oakland to Kahului Airport (OGG), Maui will start on April 7. In subsequent weeks, the carrier will inaugurate additional service… (worldairlinenews.com) 更多...
The new blue is here. On Monday we were given early access and invited to sneak peak of the Jetblue Restyle Phase 2 at the conversion facility down in Lake City Florida. (airwaysmag.com) 更多...
The airplane departed Addis Ababa-Bole Airport runway 07R at 0838LT and climbed to an altitude of 9,000 feet in good weather conditions. In unknown circumstances, the airplane went out of control and disintegrated in a uninhabited area located in the region of Debre Zeit (Bishoftu), about 30 km southeast of Bole Airport. A huge crater was found at the point of impact and the aircraft was totally destroyed. None of the 157 occupants survived. Apparently, the crew encountered unknown problems and… (www.baaa-acro.com) 更多...
Department of Transportation investigating 737 Max aircraft after Ethiopian crash; former NTSB board member John Goglia weighs in. (video.foxnews.com) 更多...
Come watch with us the official delivery ceremony of the first Airbus A380 to All Nippon Airways (ANA). ANA has firm orders for three A380s, becoming the first customer for the superjumbo in Japan. The airline will operate the aircraft on the popular leisure Narita-Honolulu route. The three ANA A380s will be painted in a special livery depicting sea turtles which are native to Hawaii. This particular livery is one of the most elaborate ever painted by Airbus. It took 21 days for the Airbus team… (worldairlinenews.com) 更多...
With planes grounded and deliveries halted, the Boeing Co. will need room for its 737 MAX jets as it maintains production at the record rate of 52 aircraft per month on the 737 line. And, according to a report from the Puget Sound Business Journal, the company might be looking to a former B-52 bomber facility in eastern Washington state for storage space. The PSBJ reports that Boeing (NYSE: BA) owns more than 100 acres of property, including a ramp that could be used for parking undelivered… (www.bizjournals.com) 更多...
