DETROIT - The Federal Aviation Administration hasn't updated standards for emergency airliner evacuations in nearly two decades, a period when travelers have increasingly had to deal with tighter aircraft seats, more carry-on bags and support animals, a government watchdog says. The Transportation Department's Inspector General said in an audit report...

A S7 Sibir Airlines Airbus A320-200, registration VQ-BPN performing flight S7-1213 from Moscow Domodedovo to Kaliningrad (Russia), was enroute at FL340 about 110nm west of Moscow (editorial note: high level winds of about 80-100 knots from the west) when the crew determined their speed indication system was faulty. The aircraft descended to FL280, subseq...

  A Delta Airlines Airbus A350-900, registration N508DN performing flight DL-159 from Detroit,MI (USA) to Seoul (South Korea) with 189 people on board, was enroute at FL380 over the Beaufort Sea, when the crew received abnormal indications for one of the engines (Trent XWB) and drifted the aircraft down to FL220. The aircraft diverted to Fairbanks,...

鉅亨網編譯張博翔2020/09/21 11:30 彭博社 (Bloomberg) 報導，一名波音 (BA-US) 吹哨者再次現身，並敦促相關航空監管機構向聯邦政府提交的波音 737 MAX 停飛報告中，應增加更多保護措施。 之前曾爆出波音飛機設計有問題的內部系統工程師 Curtis Ewbank ，近日於聯邦政府公民評...

September 19, 2020       The plane is suspected to have skidded off the runway hitting a perimeter wall. Photo: courtesy A cargo plane belonging to Kenyan’s Silverstone Air has crash-landed in Aden Adde Airport in Mogadishu adding to four the number of Kenyan aircraft that have suffered air crash incidents in Somalia t...

A Southwest Airlines Boeing 737-700, registration N420WN performing flight Milwaukee,WI to Orlando,FL (USA), was accelerating for takeoff from Milwaukee's runway 19R when the crew rejected takeoff due to two large birds hitting the left hand engine (CFM56) about 1100 meters/3600 feet down the runway. The aircraft slowed safely and vacated the runway via ...

An American Airlines Boeing 777-200, registration N762AN performing flight AA-48 from Dallas Ft. Worth,TX (USA) to Paris Charles de Gaulle (France), was enroute at FL370 about 60nm south of Southbend,IN (USA) when a windshield cracked. The aircraft descended to FL270 and set course to New York, where the aircraft landed safely on JFK's runway 22R about 9...

Published September 16, 2020, 4:17 PM by Martin Sadongdong & Nonoy Lacson Four personnel of the Philippine Air Force (PAF) were confirmed to have been killed when a military helicopter crashed in Lantawan, Basilan on Wednesday afternoon due to bad weather. (Photos courtesy of Lantawan Municipal Police Station / MANILA BULLETIN) A mili...

TAIPEI - A new Taiwanese maintenance center for F-16 fighter jets hopes to service the American-made aircraft belonging to multiple countries, a goal that would outrage China and shake up Asian military diplomacy if realized, experts say. China claims sovereignty over self-ruled Taiwan and discourages third countries from supporting the Taiwanese g...

A British Airways Boeing 777-200, registration G-VIIC performing flight BA-113 from London Heathrow,EN (UK) to New York JFK,NY (USA), was climbing through FL250 out of Heathrow's runway 09R when the crew received indication of loss of oil pressure for the left hand engine (GE90) and shut the engine down. The aircraft descended to FL100, went over the Brist...