Reading Time: < 1 minute A Southwest Airlines Boeing 737 MAX 8, performing positioning flight from Orlando,FL to Victorville, CA (USA) with 2 crew on board, engine shut down in flight. Aircraft was in the initial climb out of Orlando’s runway 36R when the crew reported they had just lost their right hand engine (LEAP), stopped the climb at 2000 […]

Reading Time: < 1 minute A Spicejet Boeing 737-8 MAX, performing flight from Hong Kong (China) to Delhi (India) with 140 people on board, engine shut down in flight. Aircraft was enroute at FL340 about 180nm east of Varanasi (India) when the left hand engine (LEAP 1B) shut down due to a restriction in the fuel flow. The crew drifted the […]

Reading Time: < 1 minute A THY Turkish Airlines Boeing 737-8 MAX, performing flight from Istanbul (Turkey) to Accra (Ghana), experienced bird strike. Aircraft was in the initial climb out of Istanbul Ataturk’s runway 05 when the aircraft received a bird strike prompting the crew to stop the climb at 9000 feet. Crew decided to return to Istanbul for a […]

Reading Time: 2 minutes Southwest Airlines’ pilots union is seeking court protection to prevent the airline from operating Boeing 737-8 MAX aircraft without a contract provision for the type—a lawsuit the airline called “premature.” The Southwest Airlines Pilots’ Association (SWAPA) filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas for “status quo” protection against what the […]