All Air Transport articles – Page 87
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In depthAdvanced materials emerge as challenging new frontier for aircraft recycling
The first two Boeing 787 Dreamliners retired from commercial service have been taken apart. But what to do with the carbon-composite wings and fuselage?
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NewsShifting crosswinds preceded Cargolux 747’s double engine pod-strike
Investigators have disclosed that a Cargolux Boeing 747-400ERF experienced shifting winds before suffering a double engine pod-strike during an aborted landing attempt at Luxembourg. The aircraft – arriving from Dubai on 15 April – rolled to the left shortly after touchdown, and both its inboard and outboard left-hand engines struck ...
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NewsSAS positive over demand recovery despite persisting losses
Scandinavian carrier SAS turned in a lower pre-tax loss of SKr3.8 billion ($350 million) for the first half of the year, including a SKr1.4 billion loss for the second quarter. While pre-tax losses reduced, SAS’s net loss for the three months to 30 April remained at SKr1.5 billion. SAS raised ...
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NewsUnited Nigeria ERJ-145 suffers excursion during Lagos landing
Nigerian investigators are probing an incident in which an Embraer ERJ-145 suffered a runway excursion during landing at Lagos. The aircraft, operated by United Nigeria Airlines, was arriving on a domestic service from Abakaliki which lies some 280nm (520km) east of the Nigerian hub. United Nigeria says the regional jet ...
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NewsElectric air taxi developer Wisk becomes wholly owned subsidiary of Boeing
California-based electric air taxi developer Wisk Aero is now a wholly owned subsidiary of Boeing, which previously had been one of two shareholders of the start-up.
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NewsSAS to offer seats on first ES-30 flights but dates and destinations remain unclear
SAS is to offer passengers the chance of reserving seats on its inaugural commercial services of the Heart Aerospace ES-30 hybrid-electric aircraft, despite the milestone being five years away and with most of the important flight details still vague.
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NewsIsrair Group records strong surge in first-quarter revenues
Israeli leisure operator Israir Group is attributing a strong first-quarter performance to increased demand and the expansion of its Airbus fleet. The company’s revenues in the three months to 31 March – totalling $94 million – amounted to a two-thirds increase on last year’s figure, and double the level of ...
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NewsAir Canada turns to regional carrier PAL to operate Dash 8s amid pilot crunch
Air Canada is to introduce up to six De Havilland Dash 8-400 turboprops from regional operator PAL Airlines, to help ease capacity pressure from pilot shortages. The Canadian flag-carrier has provisionally agreed – through a letter of intent – to use the aircraft on regional services in the east of ...
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NewsAbsence of information scuppers probe into An-124’s undershot landing at Riyadh
Investigators have disclosed that attempts to probe an Antonov An-124’s short landing at Riyadh reached a dead end owing to an absence of information. The aircraft (UR-ZYD), operating for Ukraine’s Maximus Airlines, had been arriving at the Saudi Arabian capital after a service from Bechar in Algeria on 15 January ...
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NewsAn-12 suffered wing damage a month before fatal in-flight engine fire
Investigators probing the fatal loss of an Antonov An-12 freighter in Greece last July have disclosed that the aircraft sustained wing damage during a ground collision with a lighting mast less than a month before. The An-12 had been taxiing, behind a ‘follow me’ vehicle, to a parking stand at ...
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NewsAsiana passenger reportedly opens A321 emergency exit during approach to Daegu
One of Asiana Airlines’ Airbus A321s has apparently been involved in an in-flight incident during which a passenger exit door was opened just prior to touchdown at Daegu. Video images circulating on social media show passengers seated next to the open exit being subjected to strong airstreams. Korean media reports ...
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NewsAn-124 aborted take-off after pitot-static covers left on
Investigators have determined that an Antonov An-124 aborted its take-off run from Leipzig, after protective covers were inadvertently left on the pitot-static tubes. The Antonov Airlines aircraft was operating a service to East Midlands airport in the UK on 27 December last year. Ukrainian investigation authority NBAAI states, in a ...
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NewsNatilus picks ZeroAvia to provide hydrogen-propulsion option for ‘Kona’ concept
California start-up Natilus is now offering its blended-wing-body conceptual autonomous aircraft with optional hydrogen-electric powerplants produced by ZeroAvia.
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NewsBoeing now delivering some reworked 737s following fuselage issue
Boeing has started the process of delivering 737s that have been fixed to address a recently disclosed manufacturing quality problem involving fuselage clips.
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NewsArtificial intelligence engaged in effort to relieve pilots’ NOTAM burden
Artificial intelligence has been mobilised by a collective industry effort to address the long-running issue of NOTAM complexity, and lies at the heart of a model developed to simplify them. NOTAMs contain a variety of information for pilots, including essential safety-critical data. But cockpit representatives are dismayed over the sheer ...
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NewsEU court rejects approval of Italian airline pandemic aid over absence of explanation
Approval of an Italian government provision of €130 million ($140 million) in pandemic support to certain carriers in the country has been struck down by the European Union’s General Court. The General Court has annulled a European Commission decision to approve the October 2020 subsidy, ruling that it failed to ...
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NewsEl Al 737 freighter introduction held up by regulatory hitch
Israel’s El Al is yet to introduce the Boeing 737-800 freighter it had been planning to use from April, owing to a regulatory issue. The airline signed an agreement in February this year to dry-lease the aircraft which had recently been converted from passenger to cargo configuration. But El Al ...
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NewsEl Al includes Airbus in request for single-aisle fleet-renewal proposals
Israeli flag-carrier El Al has included Airbus in a request for proposals to replace single-aisle aircraft from 2025, while incumbent Boeing as well as engine manufacturers have also been contacted for the campaign. El Al is looking to modernise its single-aisle fleet – currently exclusively comprising 24 Boeing 737-800s and ...
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NewsRussia’s SSJ-New edges towards serial production
Serial production of the Irkut SSJ-New, the domestically-modified variant of the Superjet 100, is scheduled to commence next year, Russian state technology corporation Rostec insists. Rostec chief Sergei Chemezov says prototypes of the SSJ-New are being assembled at the Irkut plant in Komsomolsk, while certification structural testing of an SSJ-New ...
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NewsTextron Aviation delivers first passenger-configured SkyCourier
Textron Aviation has delivered the first passenger variant of its Cessna SkyCourier turboprop to Hawaiian charter company Lanai Air.