Reading Time: < 1 minute The year 2017 entered history as the safest in commercial aviation ever with only 50 fatalities out of 4.1 billion passengers. Tragically, 2018 resulted in 530 fatalities in 11 deadly accidents. 2018 has become the worst in terms of fatalities in commercial aviation since 2015. Talking about Europe, EASA Preliminary Safety Review 2018 revealed that […]

Reading Time: < 1 minute A Frontier Airbus A321-200, performing flight from Cleveland to Tampa (USA), reported six passengers becoming sick. Aircraft was enroute when six passengers became ill, the passengers vomitted and suffered from nausea. The aircraft continued to Tampa for a safe landing. Emergency services awaited the aircraft, examined and treated the sick passengers, who could be released shortly […]

Reading Time: < 1 minute Approximately 5,500 new employees will be cleared for take-off with a career in Lufthansa Group this year – in Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Belgium alone, the home markets of the aviation group. The company is looking to hire over 1,300 flight attendants – primarily at the Munich hub and at SWISS in Zürich. Up to […]

Reading Time: < 1 minute Preliminary figures released by the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) show a total of 4.3 billion passengers were carried by air transport on scheduled services in 2018. This indicates a 6.1 per cent increase over 2017. The number of departures rose to approximately 38 million globally, and world passenger traffic grew solidly at 6.7 per […]

Reading Time: < 1 minute A Delta Airlines Boeing 717-200, performing flight from Seattle to Spokane (USA), reported sparks from the aircraft while landing. Aircraft landed on Spokane’s runway 03 when the crew of another aircraft reported seeing sparks coming from the landing aircraft. Tower immediately dispatched emergency services. The aircraft slowed without further incident and stopped on the runway. The […]

Reading Time: < 1 minute Gulfstream Aerospace Corp. announced it recently made the first international deliveries of the clean-sheet, record-breaking Gulfstream G500. Qatar Airways received two G500 aircraft at Gulfstream’s Savannah headquarters. The aircraft will join the five Gulfstream G650ER aircraft already in service with Qatar Executive, the airline’s executive charter business. The all-new G500 earned its U.S. Federal Aviation […]

Reading Time: < 1 minute A Skywest Canadair CRJ-700 on behalf of United, performing flight from Aspen to Chicago O’Hare (USA), reported gear problem. Aircraft was descending through FL330 towards Chicago when the crew began to squawk emergency due to a gear problem. The crew decided to perform a low approach to Chicago’s runway 10C to have the landing gear […]

Reading Time: < 1 minute Inside Boeing’s Everett assembly plant, the first 777X flight test plane is all but complete. Engineers and mechanics are preparing to roll out this majestic jet for its public debut as early as February.  This first plane, a 777-9X model, is 252 feet long. When those 11-footlong tips are unfolded for flight, it has a wingspan […]

Reading Time: < 1 minute Four people were killed after Agusta Westland AW119 helicopter crashed Ulan-Ude, the capital of Siberia’s Buryatia republic. A helicopter crashed in Ulan-Ude. Four people on board of the aircraft were killed. The department of the Russian Emergencies Ministry in the republic of Buryatia confirmed the information. “We do confirm that a helicopter crashed in Ulan-Ude,” […]

Reading Time: < 1 minute Russian aircraft manufacturer Sukhoi Civil Aircraft Company (SCAC) has moved a step closer to extending its slender Asian customer base with the signing a letter of intent (LoI) with Thailand’s start-up Kom Airlines, which is considering the acquisition of six Superjet 100 aircraft and aims to confirm a firm order in 2019. As with other […]