Reading Time: < 1 minute Yakutia Sukhoi Superjet 100, operating from Ulan-Ude to Yakutsk carrying 91 passengers and 5 crew members, has suffered a runway excursion and apparent landing-gear collapse. Four passengers requested medical assistance. A criminal investigation has been launched into the incident, which forced the airport to shut down between 3:20am and 10:30am on Thursday.
Reading Time: < 1 minute United Airlines unveiled its state-of-the-art flight training center in Denver, Colorado. The single-site training center is the largest in the world and home to the company’s more than 30 full flight simulators representing all of United’s fleet types. The flight training center is visited by United’s more than 12,000 pilots at least once a year for […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute A SAA South African Airways Airbus A319-100, performing flight from Johannesburg (South Africa) to Lusaka (Zambia), experienced tyre damage on departure. Aircraft was in the initial climb out of Johannesburg’s runway when the crew requested to stop the climb at 8000 feet and enter a hold reporting they had a nose wheel problem, some rubber debris […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute ENAC, a European pilot training school, has partnered with Air France to assist in reopening the carrier’s cadet pilot programme. Suspended almost a decade prior, Air France has moved to reinstate the programme so as to meet the growth in capacity currently experienced by the airline and its affiliates, Joon and Transavia. According to Air […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute A Thai Airways Boeing 747-400, carrying 97 passengers and 18 crew members from Guangzhou, slid off a runway while landing at Suvarnabhumi airport in heavy rain. Suvarnabhumi airport authorities said there was a passenger with sprained ankle following a medical check-up at the terminal. The airline reported that ‘while the pilot was landing the plane […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute Air Lease Corporation announced the delivery of the first of two new Boeing 787-9 aircraft on long-term lease to Air Tahiti Nui. “We are pleased to announce this milestone delivery of ALC’s first of two new Boeing 787-9 Dreamliners to our friends at Air Tahiti Nui. This aircraft and the second one to follow in […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute An American Airlines Boeing 777-200, performing flight from Raleigh/Durham (USA) to London Heathrow (UK), reported electrical problem. Aircraft was enroute about 80nm southeast of Boston (USA) when the crew requested to divert to New York’s JFK Airport reporting an electrical backup system had failed disallowing them to continue into Oceanic Airspace, no assistance was needed. The […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute Polish leisure carrier Small Planet Airlines Sp. z o. o announced it has entered into restructuring (accelerated arrangement proceedings) under the Polish law. This step has been planned as an integral part of the business administration changes in Small Planet Group. Small Planet Airlines Sp. z o. o, the biggest Polish charter airline by passengers […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute American Airlines has introduced a new policy to control and reduce rebooking of delayed or cancelled flights for economy passengers on other airlines. A new policy at American directs airport agents not to rebook economy passengers on competing airlines — with no stated limit on how long they must wait for a seat on another […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute Representatives of the European Union and Russia have held consultations in Brussels on issues of flight safety for Russian aircraft to member countries in the Safety Assessment of Foreign Aircraft (SAFA) program, Russia’s Permanent Mission to the EU said on Friday. “On October 5, 2018, Russia-EU bilateral technical consultations were held in Brussels on issues […]