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New Lufthansa seat saves nearly 30% in weight
At just under 11kg (24lb), Lufthansa's new seat is 4.3kg lighter than its predecessor.
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LHT MRO arm to support Wizz Air in Romania and Czech Republic
Lufthansa Technik Maintenance International (LTMI) and Wizz Air have extended the scope of their co-operation to Romania and the Czech Republic. Under...
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NewsAircell close to defining plan for Wi-Fi on international flights
Aircell is edging closer to announcing a plan for offering in-flight Wi-Fi on international flights. "We are currently finalizing with airline partners...
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High thrust Trent 900s limited to 75 flight cycles: Qantas
Qantas Airways says the latest high thrust variants of the Rolls-Royce Trent 900 engines powering its Airbus A380 aircraft can be used for only 75 flights...
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Qantas 747 power loss incident prompts calls for safety action
Australian safety regulators have called for US regulations to address the potential risk caused by liquid contamination of aircraft electrical systems,...
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NewsAB25: anniversary reflections from Sir Michael Bishop
"Air transport is a tumultuous industry, frequently dictated by uncontrollable events"
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SIA Engineering renews services agreement with SilkAir
Maintenance, repair and overhaul firm SIA Engineering has renewed an existing services agreement with SIA subsidiary SilkAir, which was due to expire in...
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Continental takes aim at French Concorde verdict
Continental Airlines is to appeal against a French court's decision to hold the US carrier and one of its mechanics guilty of actions that led to the July 2000 crash of a BAC-Aerospatiale Concorde on the ouskirts of Paris.
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Two Flybe aircraft in weeks shed unlatched engine doors
Just two months after a Flybe jet lost unlatched engine cowl doors on take-off, another Flybe aircraft lost an engine access door in similar circumstances,...
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NASA plans tests for Discovery
NASA will begin tests on Discovery's external fuel tank sometime after 15 December, the US space agency says. Engineers are still meeting to determine...
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Investigators analyse data recorders from crashed Tu-154
Investigators have retrieved two of the three flight recorders from the Dagestan Airlines Tupolev Tu-154M which crashed at Moscow Domodedovo yesterday.
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Discovery launch pushed back again, now looking to February
With NASA engineers still unable to determine the cause of cracks on space shuttle Discovery's external fuel tank, the launch has been pushed back to 3 February...
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Overhaul of US Airways' A330-300s to begin next fall
US Airways in about nine months will begin retrofitting its Airbus A330-300s with the same new business-class product that it offers on its A330-200s.
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Vemina Aviaprestige wins EASA approval for interior MRO
EASA has granted Vemina Aviaprestige, a Moscow-based cabin completions centre for business and VIP aircraft, Part 145 approval to provide interior equipment...
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NewsProblems in manufacturing process led to Trent 900 failure: ATSB
The Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) says that a problem in the "manufacturing process" led to the 4 November uncontained engine failure on a Rolls-Royce...
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TAM extends V2500 maintenance contract with MTU until 2019
Brazil's TAM Linhas Aéreas has extended its existing International Aero Engines V2500 engine maintenance agreement with MTU Maintenance Hannover until mid-2019....
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EASA orders A310 landing gear checks
Cracks in two Airbus A310s have led the European Aviation Safety Agency to institute two more airworthiness directives on main landing-gears of type variants A300B4, C4, and F4, A310, and A300-600 and -600(ST).
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NewsPipe fatigue behind Qantas A380 Trent 900 failure: ATSB
The Australian Transport and Safety Bureau (ATSB) has detailed the reasons behind the uncontained failure of a Rolls-Royce Trent 900 engine, which forced...
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Fokker Services to increase presence in Singapore
Fokker Services Asia (FSA) is doubling its hangar size in Singapore, as the MRO firm eyes growth in the Asia Pacific. From next year the maintenance...