AeroMechanical Services is marketing at the show its Automated Flight Information Reporting System (Afirs) maintenance situational awareness tool for the business aviation market. Afirs is an on-board system that monitors, reports and records the performance and status of aircraft systems, and sends positional and exceedances data to the ground in real time via the Iridium satellite network.
Source: Flight Daily News
US investigators probing the in-flight opening of an Embraer EMB-545’s passenger door have determined that a corroded and jammed door sensor falsely indicated to the crew that it was locked prior to departure.
Dutch investigators probing the fatal crash of a Blackshape Aircraft BK 160 are trying to determine whether external burn marks arose from an in-flight or post-impact fire.
Italian airframer Blackshape Aircraft is confident that the grounding of its BS 115 and BK 160 single-engined trainers will shortly be resolved, as it supports regulatory investigations into two accidents which triggered the decision. The manufacturer is participating in the Aero Friedrichshafen 2024 show, which begins on 17 April, where ...
