60% of 282 retired airline pilots included in a recent study died within five years of leaving their jobs, according to an international pilots organization. Officials of the International Federation of Air Line Pilots Assns., which met in Washington, refused to speculate on the reasons for the large proportion of untimely deaths but said they…
Proposals to invest in ailing Malaysia Airlines include one from Air France-KLM, which wants as much as 49%. Air France-KLM said it had previously held talks with Malaysia Airlines’ owners but was not currently involved in the sale process. Malaysia’s government has found the proposals from foreign airlines more attractive, but the sovereign wealth fund…
Three people have died after an RFS aerial water tanker crashed in the Snowy Monaro area on Thursday afternoon. The wreckage was located by search crews and early reports suggest only the plane’s tail section is intact, while the remainder broke up on impact. Crews say the crash site is surrounded by difficult terrain and…
Wuhan airport and local transport networks will be suspended from 10am on Thursday. Authorities are asking citizens not to leave unless there are special circumstances, said state media. People arriving at Heathrow airport from the Chinese city at the centre of a coronavirus outbreak will be met by health teams including a doctor, the government has announced,…
Boeing has scheduled the 777X’s maiden flight for Thursday 23 January. The 777-9 test aircraft should depart at around 10:00 Seattle time on the 23rd, although Boeing cautions that the timing “could change due to weather and other factors”.
Boeing doesn’t expect regulators to sign off on the 737 Max until June or July, people familiar with the matter said Tuesday. That date is months later than the manufacturer previously expected. The delays pose another headache for carriers who have already missed one peak travel season without the planes. Shares of the aircraft manufacturer…
Crystina, who is a reporter for ESPN, was flying from LA to Chicago on Wednesday when the plane diverted to New Mexico to remove the passenger. She wrote on Twitter: “We just had to land the plane in New Mexico to remove an unruly passenger. He was wasted, kicking the seats, hit a flight attendant.…
Following its strategy to keep its overall production system at the leading edge of technology and to increase industrial capacity and flexibility, Airbus has decided to create new A321 production capabilities at its site in Toulouse. By mid-2022 the current A380 Lagardère facility in Toulouse will accommodate a digitally-enabled A321 line as a step to…
Iran said it had asked the U.S. and French authorities for equipment to download information from black boxes on a downed Ukrainian airliner, potentially angering countries which want the recorders analyzed abroad.
A large fire has broken out near the Qantas terminal at Sydney Airport. Airport fire crews were called to fuel storage depots next to the tarmac after 7pm today after a factory on Coward Street in Mascot went up in flames. Authorities have more than 18 crews on the ground made up of 70 fire…
According to UK climatology expert Stephen Burt (Department of Meteorology, University of Reading), the mean sea level barometric pressure at Heathrow Airport reached 1049.6 mb (30.99”) at midnight GMT Sunday night (7 p.m. EST). Not only is this a record for Heathrow, beating 1047.3 mb from February 7, 1964, but it’s also the highest barometric…
Iran said on Saturday it was sending to Ukraine the black boxes from the Ukrainian Boeing 737-800 that the Iranian military shot down, an accident that sparked unrest at home and added to pressure on Tehran from abroad. Iran’s Tasnim news agency also reported the authorities were prepared for experts from France, Canada and the…
