The International Air Transport Association and Cape Verde airport and air navigation service provider ASA are implementing global navigation satellite system (GNSS) procedures at eight airports. The project is designed to make the island nation the first African country with GNSS arrival, approach and departure procedures at all of its airports.
Source: Flight International
Investigators have determined that a Delta Air Lines Airbus A330-300 touched down short of the runway at Amsterdam, after the crew sought to mitigate a perceived risk of overrun and descended below the glideslope.
American Airlines and United Airlines are resuming flights having been forced to temporarily halt operations as part of the wide-ranging global impact of an IT outage today.
A global technology outage appears to have caused several major US airlines to ground departing aircraft, in addition to creating problems at airports and airlines worldwide that threatens to snarl air traffic.
