All Safety News – Page 230
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WheelTug reveals timeframe for planned service entry
Electric taxi specialist WheelTug expects its nose wheel drive system to enter service in late 2018.
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Kaliningrad runway swept before A321 accident: airport
Kaliningrad Khrabrovo airport’s operator insists the condition of its runway was suitable to receive the Aeroflot Airbus A321 which subsequently veered off onto muddy ground and lost its nose-gear.
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LAM probes 'impact' to 737 on approach
Investigators in Mozambique are looking into the cause of an in-flight impact to a Boeing 737-700 which occurred on approach to the city of Tete.
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UK pilots urge action over increasing drone encounters
Pilots’ representatives in the UK believe the risk of a drone collision with aircraft is increasing, after claiming a doubling of reported encounters.
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MD-90 operators told to fit angle-of-attack sensor heaters
Operators of Boeing MD-90s are being instructed to fit external case heaters on angle-of-attack sensors to prevent improper activation of the stick-shaker.
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Sukhoi to finish Interjet SSJ100 repairs by end-January
Repairs are underway on Interjet’s Sukhoi Superjet 100 fleet, with the 11 grounded aircraft expected to return to revenue service by the end of January.
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FlightStats 2016 Airline On-Time Performance Service Award Winners Announced
January 4, 2017 - FlightStats, Inc., the leader in global flight information services, part of FlightGlobal, has released the winners for the 8th Annual Airline On-Time Performance Service Awards.
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New ruling allows for low visibility commercial landings
A recently updated US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) ruling will allow airlines to operate in almost all visibility conditions with the assistance of Elbit Systems’ Clear Vision Enhanced Flight Vision System (EFVS).
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BA cabin crew to proceed with strike after rejecting latest offer
British Airways cabin crew represented by UK union Unite and employed under the airline's "mixed fleet" contract will conduct a 48h strike later this month in a dispute over pay and conditions.
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Aeroflot A321 damaged in Kaliningrad landing accident
One of Russian carrier Aeroflot’s Airbus A321s has been damaged in an accident at Kaliningrad, apparently suffering a nose-gear collapse.
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FORECASTS: What's in store for 2017?
As the old saying goes, anybody who can tell the future should keep quiet about it and quietly get rich on the stock market. Here at Flightglobal, we are naturally quite confident of our forecasting ability but instinctively generous with our opinions. Herewith our best horizon-scanning guestimates for 2017:
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A321 struck tail after pilot falsely perceived bounce
Swiss investigators believe an Airbus A321 sustained a tail-strike at Geneva after a pilot mistakenly believed the aircraft had bounced on landing.
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Air Baltic takes second CS300
Latvian carrier Air Baltic has taken delivery of a second Bombardier CS300.
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Citilink CEO resigns after 'drunk' pilot incident
Two top executives at Indonesian carrier Citilink have tendered their resignations, after a video of one of its pilots allegedly showing up for work drunk went viral.
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NewsInterjet grounds half of SSJ100 fleet pending repairs
Mexican carrier Interjet has grounded 11 Sukhoi Superjet 100s with stabiliser defects pending repairs.
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REVIEW: A look back at our top 5 CEO interviews of 2016
As the end draws in for 2016, we take a look back at some of our most read CEO interviews of the year
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Tu-154 inquiry obtains video evidence of accident
Investigators probing the military Tupolev Tu-154 crash in the Black Sea are to analyse video recordings of the accident captured as the aircraft departed Sochi.
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Weather forced ill-fated Tu-154 to switch refuelling stop
Russian authorities have disclosed that the Tupolev Tu-154 which crashed in the Black Sea had originally been due to refuel in Mozdok, in North Ossetia, rather than Sochi.
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Emirates on verge of taking first Trent A380s
Emirates is set to take delivery of at least three Rolls-Royce Trent-powered Airbus A380s before the end of this year.
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Emirates defers delivery of a dozen A380s
Middle Eastern carrier Emirates is to defer delivery of 12 Airbus A380s which had been due to arrive over the next two years, under a tripartite agreement to cut production of the type a year earlier than previously planned.