All articles by David Kaminski-Morrow – Page 12
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NewsUruguayan start-up SUA to lease A220 fleet from Air Baltic
Latvia’s Air Baltic is to provide the initial fleet for a Uruguayan start-up carrier branded SUA Lineas Aereas, which aims to commence operations later this year. Air Baltic is to supply up to five Airbus A220-300s via a wet-lease agreement from October. The carrier states that it will also provide ...
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NewsBoom’s XB-1 achieves supersonic flight over Mojave desert
US aerospace firm Boom Supersonic’s experimental XB-1 aircraft has achieved a speed in excess of Mach 1 for the first time. The aircraft reached supersonic speeds of around M1.1 during a test flight on 28 January, flown by chief test pilot Tristan Brandenburg, and broadcast live by the company. It ...
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NewsAll occupants escape Air Busan A321 after fire breaks out at Gimhae
Korean authorities state that all 176 occupants of an Air Busan Airbus A321 have escaped after a fire broke out on the twinjet. The aircraft had been scheduled to depart from Gimhae airport for Hong Kong on 28 January. According to the Korean transport ministry, a fire broke out in ...
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NewsRussia’s United Aircraft seeks large hike in authorised capital
Russian aerospace firm United Aircraft is calling a general shareholders’ meeting to propose the issue of more than 2 trillion shares. The company’s board voted on 24 January to increase the authorised capital of the company, which oversees various civil and military aircraft entities and programmes. United Aircraft says it ...
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NewsSaudi’s Riyadh Air secures approval for initial 787 simulator
Saudi Arabian start-up carrier Riyadh Air has secured certification for its first Boeing 787-9 simulator, ahead of its planned launch of operations this year. The simulator has been approved by the Saudi regulator, the General Authority of Civil Aviation. Riyadh Air chief operating officer Peter Bellew says the certification “underscores ...
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NewsProbe opens into Khabarovsk An-24 excursion into trees during take-off
Russian investigators have yet to disclose the reason for a Antonov An-24’s runway excursion while attempting to depart from Nelkan in the east of the country. The twin-engined Khabarovsk Airlines aircraft had been bound for Khabarovsk on 25 January. According to the carrier, the An-24 was carrying out its take-off ...
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NewsRussian museum to restore surviving orbiter from Buran shuttle programme
Ekaterinburg’s aviation and military museum complex is preparing to undertake restoration of an orbiter from the Soviet Union’s Buran space shuttle programme, six months after the vehicle’s arrival. Orbiter 2.01 – colloquially known as ‘Baikal’ – was the third to be built under the programme. Only one orbiter, the 1.01 ...
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NewsLondon City seeks approval for precision-navigation procedure to enable A320neo operations
London City airport’s operator is seeking permission for Airbus A320neo twinjets to operate from the facility, using specially-authorised flight procedures. The airport has a characteristic steep-approach glideslope and carriers typically use smaller models including Embraer E-Jets as well as the A220. British Airways previously used A318s from the airport, although ...
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NewsInstitute finalising test-rig preparations for MC-21-310 electronics certification
Russian specialists are preparing to conduct certification testing of the on-board electronic systems for the Yakovlev MC-21-310. The -310 is a variant of the MC-21 twinjet which will be powered by Russian-built Aviadvigatel PD-14 engines and include a substantial proportion of domestically-sourced systems and components. Russia’s GosNIIAS aviation research institute ...
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NewsJeju 737 crash inquiry identifies bird debris in both engines as it prepares to release initial findings
Korean investigators have confirmed that evidence of bird-strike was found in both engines of the Jeju Air Boeing 737-800 involved in the fatal landing accident at Muan airport. The inquiry has identified feathers and other debris as belonging to the Baikal teal, a species of east Asian duck which typically ...
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NewsNorse to open another transatlantic connection to Los Angeles
Long-haul budget carrier Norse Atlantic Airways is opening a new connection to Los Angeles, from the Greek capital Athens. Norse Atlantic says it will commence the transatlantic service on 3 June. It will operate four-times weekly using Boeing 787s, the only aircraft type used by the carrier. Norse Atlantic already ...
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NewsAirbus indicates 'operational issues' behind decision to terminate Beluga cargo airline
Airbus has pointed to operational issues as the primary reason for its decision to close its specialised A300-600ST Beluga cargo airline, little more than a year after obtaining certification. The airline, Airbus Beluga Transport, was established to pursue outsize freight business after the airframer withdrew the A300-600ST fleet from its ...
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NewsPilot's limited familiarity with seized Cuban An-2 led to power loss and levee crash
US investigators believe a Cuban-registered Antonov An-2 crashed while attempting to land on a levee, after a pilot with limited understanding of the aircraft failed to activate oil-cooling shutters, causing the engine to overheat. The aircraft had been flown, three weeks earlier, from Cuba’s Sancti Spiritus airport to Miami’s Dade-Collier ...
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NewsRyanair takes advantage of passenger-cap suspension to expand Dublin capacity
Ryanair is taking advantage of a suspension of Dublin airport’s contentious traffic cap to hike capacity at the Irish capital this summer. The airline is to station a total of 34 aircraft at Dublin, including 14 Boeing 737 Max 8-200s. Ireland’s aviation regulator had warned last year that Dublin would ...
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NewsAirbus to close A300-600ST Beluga airline just 14 months after gaining AOC
Airbus has confirmed that it will close its relatively young Airbus Beluga Transport operation, which was intended to cater to demand for outsize cargo carriage. The airframer established the operation as it sought an alternative use for its A300-600ST Beluga fleet, which was withdrawn from its internal logistics network after ...
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NewsGazpromavia crash: Superjet pilots urged to watch for unreliable angle-of-attack clues
Crucial to the investigation into the Gazpromavia Superjet 100 crash outside Moscow is whether the pilots could have saved the aircraft after its automatic stall-protection system pushed it into a fatal dive. Preliminary investigation indicates the Superjet, which came down in a forest on 12 July last year, was fed ...
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NewsUral expects to complete removal of force-landed A320 from field within weeks
Russian carrier Ural Airlines expects all sections of the Airbus A320 which force-landed in a field will be removed by February, nearly one-and-a-half years since the occurrence. The twinjet ran low on fuel as it attempted to reach Novosibirsk in September 2023, having diverted from its original destination Omsk following ...
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NewsDash 8 crew mis-set flaps through 'unconscious habit' before short-runway take-off
Investigators believe habitual behaviour resulted in a De Havilland Dash 8-400 crew’s mis-setting take-off flaps during a departure from a short runway in Queensland last year. The QantasLink aircraft was heavily-laden, with 67 passengers plus four crew, for the flight out of Horn Island airport, and it was also carrying ...
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NewsEASA expects longer timeline to decision on reduced-crew operations in cockpit
European safety regulators have pushed back the timeline forecast for a rulemaking decision on reduced-crew operations in air transport, expecting that it will not emerge until the end of the decade.
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NewsAfter Jeju 737 crash, Muan airport runway to remain closed until mid-April
Korea’s government has disclosed that Muan airport’s runway will remain closed at least until 18 April, following the fatal Jeju Air Boeing 737-800 crash on 29 December. The transport ministry says the closure is being extended in order to take “follow-up measures” in the aftermath of the accident. “Timing of ...
