Reading Time: < 1 minute An Iberia Airbus A340-600, performing flight from Madrid (Spain) to Quito (Ecuador), touched down on Quito’s runway when the crew initiated a go around. The aircraft entered a hold for about 20 minutes, positioned for another approach to runway and landed about 30 minutes after the go around. One of the main tyres was found […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute FL Technics, a global provider of integrated aircraft maintenance, repair and overhaul services, has announced the signing of an agreement with Comair Limited, a private domestic airline operator in the Republic of South Africa listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE). Comair Limited is a South African aviation and travel company, offering scheduled and non-scheduled […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute Virgin Atlantic and Delta Air Lines are on track to become the first global airline partnership to achieve Level 3 Certification on the International Air Transport Association’s (IATA) New Distribution Capability (NDC), standard 18.1. Virgin has already achieved Level 3 Certification, and Delta expects to do the same in the next month. This will allow […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute A Horizon Air de Havilland Dash 8-400, performing an unauthorized flight from Seattle, WA (USA) to an undefined destination, departed Seattle’s runway without takeoff clearance with tower trying to query callsign and authorization. Pierce County, WA Sheriff’s Office reported a 29 year old employee of Horizon Air stole the aircraft and performed an unauthorized takeoff. […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute The International Air Transport Association (IATA) announced global passenger traffic results for June showing that demand rose by 7.8% compared to June 2017. This was up from 6.0% year-over-year growth recorded in both May and April. June capacity (available seat kilometers or ASKs) increased by 6.5%, and load factor rose 1.0 percentage point to 82.8%. […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute An Air Iceland Connect de Havilland Dash 8-400, performing flight from Reykjavik to Egilsstadir (Iceland) with 40 passengers and 4 crew, was climbing out of Reykjavik’s runway 31 when the crew stopped the climb at 6000 feet, shut the right hand engine down and returned to Reykjavik for a safe landing on runway 01 about […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute The Rosvertol company, which is part of the Russian Helicopters holding, plans to start mass production of the upgraded version of heavy Mi-26T2 helicopter in 2019. “We plan to complete tests in 2019 and starting from 2019 its mass production will be launched by the order of the Defense Ministry,” said Igor Sychev, senior engineer at […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute A Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) Boeing 777-300, performing Hajj flight from Lahore (Pakistan) to Jeddah (Saudi Arabia) with 395 people on board, was accelerating for takeoff from Lahore when an engine failed prompting the crew to reject takeoff. The aircraft came to a stop with four blown of six left main tyres. A replacement Boeing […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute Gulfstream Aerospace Corp.’s next aircraft to be certified, the award-winning Gulfstream G600, will make its Latin American debut as part of the company’s static display at the upcoming Latin American Business Aviation Conference & Exhibition (LABACE) in São Paulo. More than 205 Gulfstream aircraft are based in Latin America; nearly 70 percent are large-cabin models […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute Air China has taken delivery of its first A350-900 in Toulouse today. The national flag carrier is the first Chinese mainland customer to order and take ownership of the world’s newest and most efficient twin-engine widebody aircraft. Powered by Rolls-Royce Trent XWB engines, Air China’s A350-900 aircraft features a comfortable three-class cabin layout of 312 […]