South Africa’s Comair seeks new financial support
Comair (South Africa) (MN, Johannesburg O.R. Tambo) needs new financial support from the Comair Rescue Consortium (CRC) as the company… Read More »
NTSB to interview pilots, survey site of ditched old 737 cargo plane off Hawaii coast
National Transportation Safety Board investigators plan to use sonar imaging to try to locate a Boeing 737-200 cargo jet that… Read More »
Rolls-Royce close to resolving costliest Trent 1000 jet-engine issue
Rolls-Royce is increasingly optimistic that it can move beyond the jet-engine issues that have cost it billions of pounds and… Read More »
Plane Exorcised by Voodoo Priests Following Lightning Strike
A plane that was struck by lightning while waiting at an airport in the Western African nation of Togo was… Read More »
FAA slows B777X certification is now set for 1Q 2024
The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has formally denied Boeing (BOE, Chicago O’Hare) permission to move forward in certifying its… Read More »
Airlines urged to tighten Airbus A320 checks after COVID storage
Regulators have called for more rigorous checks when pulling some Airbus jets out of pandemic storage, following flawed cockpit readings… Read More »
Cathay working with Airbus on long-haul flights with a single pilot in the cockpit
Cathay Pacific 0293.HK is working with Airbus AIR.PA to introduce “reduced crew” long-haul flights with a sole pilot in the cockpit much of the… Read More »
GE and Safran’s CFM to develop radical new open-bladed jet engine
General Electric (GE.N) and France’s Safran (SAF.PA) has unveiled plans to test-build an open-bladed jet engine able to reduce fuel use and emissions by… Read More »