NEWS General Aviation Mechanic Lied About Completing Annual, Hit with $13 million verdict
Charged Cessna owner for new parts, didn’t install them; said he completed annual but only changed the oil. Pilot seat slips in flight, pilot is killed. Link
NEWS Airbus Assures On A380 Break-Even This Year
Airbus Group has assured that its A380 will achieve production break-even this year, as it unveiled a strong full-year commercial aircraft performance. Link
NEWS CSeries 300 – first flight out of YMX today!
The Bombardier CSeries 300 finally gets airborne at Montreal’s Mirabel airport! Link
NEWS Bombardier CS300 takes off for 1st test flight
Bombardier saw one of its CS300 jets take off from Mirabel airport in Montreal today, the first time the company’s larger CSeries plane has taken to the skies. Link
NEWS Airbus Posts Higher 2014 Profit and Increases A320 Build Rates
Airbus Group NV reported a 15 percent gain in annual profit after increasing commercial plane deliveries and announced plans to boost monthly production of its workhorse A320 single-aisle aircraft to 50 a month by 2017. Earnings for 2014 before interest, tax and one-time items rose to 4.07 billion euros ($4.56 billion ) from 3.54 billion…
NEWS Plane lands safely after landing gear failure near Wichita airport
WICHITA, Kan. – An airplane carrying 67 passengers landed safely at Wichita’s Dwight D. Eisenhower National Airport Wednesday night after reporting landing gear failure about four minutes out from the airport. Link
NEWS A fascinating view into the US Air Force boneyards
You can zoom in this 48-megapixel image of the USAF boneyard in Tucson, Arizona—stitched from Bing Maps satellite images—and try to identify all those airplanes. Or you can watch this USAF documentary on how the US stockpiles thousands of planes in deserts around the country to keep the active fleet flying.* Link
NEWS Iberia recovery boosts profits at International Airlines Group
International Consolidated Airlines Group has released results for the year to December 31st, 2014, revealing the operating profit €1,390 million. This is up from €770 million in the previous year. Revenue for the year up was up eight per cent to €20,170 million, while passenger unit revenue for the year was down 0.4 per cent…
NEWS Bombardier CS300: first flight confirmed for today, February 27
Bombardier confirmed the first flight of its CS300 for today, February 27, at Mirabel, near Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Link
ALERT 11 injured on board Thai Airways flight #TG641 from Tokyo to Bangkok due to severe turbulence
Thai Airways says one of its planes hit severe turbulence over Thailand and 11 people on board were injured. The Airbus A340-600 was headed to Bangkok from Tokyo at the time and landed safely. He said the injured were taken to a hospital. Airline said in a statement that flight TG641 was carrying 227 passengers,…
NEWS What I learned flying aboard the world's crappy airlines
A humorous travel blog looking at the worse in air travel. Link
NEWS Lufthansa brings Boeing 747-8 to New York-Frankfurt route
Newark Liberty International Airport just celebrated the beginning of Lufthansa’s daily scheduled Boeing 747-8 Intercontinental service between Newark and the airline’s home base in Frankfurt. As the largest operator of the new Queen of the Skies, Lufthansa now serves the New York metropolitan area with one of the most technologically advanced aircraft in the world…
