FAA Chief Steve Dickson is set to conduct an evaluation flight in command of a Boeing 737. It is not typical for an FAA administrator to fly an airplane before it returns to service. Dickson has repeatedly said he would not sign off until he flew it himself and was “satisfied that I would put…
The FAA is advising operators of the three 787 variants to notify crews about potential failure by the autopilot flight-director system to capture the localiser. Several incidents have occurred involving 787s flying approaches to Hong Kong from the east. The system guidance partially reduced the intercept angle to the localiser, with the aircraft initially turning…
An airline union official says he believes that EasyJet is “hanging by a thread”. In a leaked recording obtained by BBC News, Martin Entwisle said the company was in a “really, really dire situation.” Mr Entwisle made the comment after a meeting with the airline’s chief financial officer, Andrew Findlay. EasyJet denies that Mr Entwisle’s…
Members of a British Airways cabin crew were taken from their Marriott Hotel rooms by officials in hazmat suits to a quarantine facility after a stewardess caught Covid-19. While the pilots were allowed home, 13 cabin crew members from the Monday flight were marched from their comfortable Marriott Hotel rooms by men in hazmat suits.…
Boeing’s grounded 737 MAX could receive regulatory approval to resume flying in November, Europe’s chief aviation safety regulator said on Friday. “For the first time in a year and a half I can say there’s an end in sight to work on the MAX,” said Patrick Ky, executive director of the European Union Aviation Safety…
Minister for Trade, Tourism and Investment Simon Birmingham told Nine’s Today Show this morning that he hoped Australians would be able to travel freely and safely to New Zealand by the end of the year. “We’re working hard to make sure every safety precaution and measure is in place through our airports, our border protections,…
British Airways has retired two other of its Boeing 747 fleet. British Airways has retired the Boeing 747-400s G-CIVK and G-BYGE, the eleventh and tenth aircraft.
Saturday afternoon, a fire broke out at Marechal da Cunha Machado airport, in São Luís. The airport’s boarding bridge 01 caught fire. Firefighters were called immediately. According to source, there were no injuries from the fire. The air bridge will go through expertise to know the reason for the fire. Due to the incident, the…
An An-26 plane has crashed near the city of Chuguev in the Kharkov region of Ukraine during landing, Ukrainian Air Force Command said Friday. According to the command, there were injuries and deaths, but the head of the Kharkov region, Oleksiy Kucher, said that there were also survivors in the crash. Please reload for updates:…
Airline Avianca Holdings came under broad criticism in Colombia for paying its top two executives US$6 million in bonuses in May, at a time when the carrier had furloughed most of its employees without pay and was preparing a bankruptcy filing. According to bankruptcy court documents submitted by Avianca itself, the airline paid chief executive…
The U.S. aviation regulator should require new cockpit procedures for Boeing 737 MAX to help pilots disable an erroneous stall alert that could be a serious distraction during mid-flight emergencies, major pilots unions said on Monday. The proposal about an erroneous “stick shaker” alert is among recommendations the Air Line Pilots Association (ALPA) and the…
Initial assembly has recently been completed on the last ever superjumbo, after it was announced in 2019 that the European airplane manufacturers were discontinuing the plane. Initial assembly of msn 272, the last Airbus A380 is completed, it was transferred from station 40 to station 35. Initial assembly of the final double-decker jet, serial number…
