China’s International Aviation and Aerospace Exhibition, the country’s biggest airshow, will go ahead in November, the organizer said on Wednesday, backtracking on an earlier announcement the 2020 event had been canceled due to COVID-19. The biennial event usually draws key suppliers – such as Airbus, Boeing and Commercial Aircraft Corp of China – and has…
Russian fighter jet Su-27 was scrambled to intercept US and Swedish reconnaissance aircraft over the Baltic Sea, the Russian Defense Ministry’s National Defense Control Center (NDCC) said. “On September 8, Russian air control systems detected two air targets approaching the Russian state border over neutral waters of the Baltic Sea. To identify air targets and…
Due to the CVID-19 crisis and low demand, British Airways could consider to withdraw 4 of its Airbus A380s. All British Airways A380 fleet is currently grounded at Châteauroux Airport in France. According to source, British Airways is considering to withdraw 4 of its 12 aircraft. The selected ones will be either sold or scrapped.…
A Peach Aviation plane had to make an unscheduled landing midway through its flight after a male passenger refused to wear a face mask. Before the plane’s takeoff from Kushiro Airport in Hokkaido, northern Japan, at 12:30 p.m. Monday, staff members of the Japanese budget airline affiliated with ANA Holdings Inc. asked the man to…
The state aircraft-building enterprise “Antonov” has produced the airframe of the first serial transport aircraft An-178 without Russian parts. “This is the first aircraft that is built without a single Russian component. time was taken by import substitution and the search for new suppliers,” Oleksandr Los, President of Antonov State Enterprise said. He also said…
Boeing said during fabrication of the 787 horizontal stabilizer it learned some components were clamped with greater force than specified, which could result in improper gap verification and shimming. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said Tuesday it “is investigating manufacturing flaws affecting certain Boeing 787 jetliners. The agency continues to engage with Boeing.” The horizontal…
Flight DL679 ATL-LAX yesterday on sept 5th 2020. The aircraft will still be used on the international LAX-SYD flight for the time being as well as cargo and charter flights. A pretty full flight with lots of AV geeks/ vloggers/ bloggers. The last scheduled domestic 777 flight for Delta.
Two airline passengers each face fines of $1,000 for refusing to wear face masks on board a flight, the first time Transport Canada has imposed a financial penalty for violating rules meant to prevent the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic. The first incident occurred on a WestJet flight from Calgary to Waterloo, Ont., in June…
Emirates airline will restore its employees full salaries starting from October. This comes as the company continues to ease travel restrictions and resume flights to over 80 destinations that had been halted due to the coronavirus pandemic. Since March the airline has made thousands of layoffs as it struggled to recover from the economic fallout…
The second-to-last Virgin Atlantic Boeing 747-400 will be retired. G-VROS ‘Forever Young’ will depart at 12:00 tomorrow, today.
A military chartered performed an emergency landing after an in-flight engine shut down, shortly after departing from Honolulu. An Atlas Air Boeing 767-300 with 212 people on board performing flight from Honolulu to Guam suffered a right hand engine failure during the initial climb out of Honolulu. As a consequence of repeated compressor stalls/surges, the…
British Airways #BA269 to Los Angeles LAX was forced to return to London Heathrow. The Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner (reg. G-ZBKO) dumped fuel over the North Sea at 11,000 feet before returning to London Heathrow. You can watch London Heathrow live 27/7 at cam.airlive.net/lhr
