All articles by David Kaminski-Morrow – Page 287
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Probe into 737 near-overrun details temperature blunders
Pilots of a Sunwing Airlines Boeing 737-800 twice entered an incorrect temperature figure during take-off calculations, leading to its departing Belfast with insufficient thrust and virtually overrunning the runway.
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Corrosion concerns ground Ju-Air's remaining Ju 52s
Swiss regulators have grounded two remaining Junkers Ju 52s operated by Ju-Air over airworthiness concerns, three months after a fatal accident involving another of its aircraft.
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Sunwing 737 Max suffers spurious indication incident
Canadian investigators have disclosed that engineers replaced an air data computer on a Sunwing Airlines Boeing 737 Max 8 after the crew received spurious indications from the aircraft’s instruments.
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El Al shifts 787 fleet further towards -9 variant
Israeli carrier El Al has cancelled one of the Boeing 787-8s it had on order with the US airframer, part of a rejig of the fleet ownership structure.
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Departing 737 fatally strikes person on Moscow runway
Russian investigators are probing an accident in which a departing aircraft fatally struck a person on the runway at Moscow Sheremetyevo.
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EasyJet firms more A320neos but pushes back deliveries
UK budget carrier EasyJet has exercised purchase rights for another 17 Airbus A320neos, but is deferring the delivery of 18 of the type by up to two years.
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E190 upset inquiry details pilots' battle to regain control
Preliminary inquiries by Portuguese investigators indicate that a serious loss of roll control by an Air Astana Embraer 190 was “consistent” with “possible disturbance” during earlier maintenance work.
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UK regional operator Flybe in talks to sell company
UK regional operator Flybe Group has disclosed that it is considering a sale of the business as part of a wide-ranging review of strategic options.
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Investigators ponder UK jets' encounter with high-speed objects
Investigators are probing the origin of high-speed objects encountered by two UK transatlantic flights as they approach south-west Ireland on 9 November.
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Arkia chief: A321LR first single-aisle to beat 757-300 economics
Israeli carrier Arkia had considered the Bombardier CSeries, with a view to acquiring 10 aircraft, before being convinced to look at the single-aisle Airbus.
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Airbus indicates A321XLR would have over 100t MTOW
Airbus is looking at taking the maximum take-off weight of the A321neo above 100t in order to extend the range of the type beyond that of the new A321LR.
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Arkia opts for 220-seat layout with first delivered A321LR
Israeli carrier Arkia is configuring its long-range Airbus A321LR with 220 seats, giving the airline around a 3,300nm range with the twinjet type.
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Air Astana E190 control-loss crew prepared to ditch in ocean
Investigations are under way into a serious loss-of-control incident involving an Air Astana Embraer 190, during which the crew considered ditching in the sea.
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IndiGo takes 125 more A321neos through order switch
Indian low-cost carrier IndiGo is to take another 125 Airbus A321neos, by converting a batch of its huge A320neo backlog to the larger type.
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Eighteen A330neos revive Airbus long-haul order book
Airbus secured orders for 10 A330-900s from an undisclosed customer at the end of October, rounding off a month in which it formally logged eight A330-800s for Kuwait Airways.
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Fly Jamaica 757 badly damaged in landing accident
Caribbean operator Fly Jamaica believes all occupants of a Boeing 757-200 are safe after the aircraft was badly damaged in a landing accident at Georgetown, Guyana.
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Flybe monitors director modes after Q400 dive incident
UK regional operator Flybe has introduced flight-data monitoring to check for pilots’ incorrectly select flight-director modes before take-off, following a serious incident involving a Bombardier Q400 departing Belfast City.
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Bombardier to sell Q400 programme
Bombardier has disclosed that it is selling its Dash 8 turboprop programme to a subsidiary of Longview Aviation Capital Corporation for $300 million.
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Sukhoi studies lower-weight Superjet wing designs
Analysts have conducted tests for Sukhoi Civil Aircraft on two modified wing designs intended to save structural weight in comparison with the current Superjet 100.
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EASA orders service life recalculation of Global 5000/6000 parts
European safety regulators are set to order certain Bombardier Global 5000 and 6000 operators to recalculate the service life of low-pressure compressor discs, and other parts, after raising concerns over engine rotor speed variations.
