All Safety News – Page 661
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United expedited engine repairs after Chicago smoke incident
United Air Lines accelerated a program to replace defective bearings on its Pratt & Whitney PW-4090-powered Boeing 777s following a 14 December 2007 incident...
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NewsIATA laments shocking drop in freight traffic
IATA figures for November have revealed further evidence of the impact of the economic slowdown on the freight market, after international cargo traffic...
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NewsANZ says biofuel test flight a success
Air New Zealand (ANZ) is reporting a successful first test flight of a Boeing 747-400 powered in part by the biofuel jatropha. The flight was conducted...
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SIA outlines initial plans for A330s
Singapore Airlines (SIA) has outlined initial plans for its new fleet of Airbus A330-300s, which it starts taking delivery of next month to replace older...
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NTSB: go! pilot napped regularly in Mesa cockpits
A Mesa Airlines CRJ200 pilot with undiagnosed severe sleep apnea told NTSB investigators that he had intentionally "napped in the cockpit" about once per...
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David Cush: Evolving Virgin America from embattled start-up to niche carrier
Virgin America CEO David Cush arrived at the carrier roughly a year ago ahead of a period of wildly spiking fuel prices and at the beginning of an equally astounding economic recession
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NewsPICTURE: Sukhoi flies second Superjet for first time
Sukhoi has carried out the first flight of its second Superjet 100 test aircraft, days after a new phase of airborne trials of its PowerJet SaM146 engines...
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NewsPost-V1 abort after bird-strike destroyed Kalitta 747F
Belgian investigators believe a bird-strike on a Kalitta Air Boeing 747-200 freighter at Brussels Airport triggered the crew to abort take-off at a late stage, causing the jet to overrun....
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Lockheed Martin completes assembly on six F-35s, first optimized CTOL
Lockheed Martin has rolled out the last of six developmental F-35s to join the ground and flight test fleet by end-year.
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EASA issues emergency AD for certain CFM56-5B engines
Operators flying a small number of CFM56-5B turbofan engines will be required to replace one of the aircraft's two powerplants if both are shown to have...
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NewsContinental 737 crash: Pilot called for rejected take-off
Cockpit voice-recorder evidence shows one of the pilots of the Continental Airlines Boeing 737-500 involved in the runway excursion accident at Denver called...
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NTSB: Air Wisconsin Philadelphia gear-up landing followed maintenance
A preliminary report by the US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) reveals that an Air Wisconsin CRJ200 that landed with its left main gear retracted...
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Forecast: Consolidation - Obstacle Course
Financial strains and collapses fuelled a flurry of consolidation activity in the airline sector in 2008, but are the regulatory hurdles still one jump too far for real consolidation to take place in the near term?
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Air cargo faces bleak prospects
Things are not looking good for the air cargo industry, with IATA predicting a 5% fall in freight traffic in 2009. But there is hope among some cargo executives that demand could start to stabilise in the second or third quarter of the year
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Shanghai pact boosts Dallas Fort Worth service hopes
Dallas/Fort Worth Airport, host of the Airline Business Network USA event in 2009, has been working with Shanghai Airport Authority to try and forge nonstop...
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NewsContinental 737 badly damaged, 38 injured in Denver take-off accident
Nearly 40 people on board a Continental Airlines Boeing 737-500 have been injured after the aircraft left the runway at Denver and caught fire yesterday...
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WORLD EXCLUSIVE VIDEO: SpaceShipTwo's mothership maiden flight
Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo mothership WhiteKnightTwo made its historic 59min maiden flight at about 08:16 local time on 21 December from Mojave air and...