Jordan's Arab Wings is winging its way into the maintenance sector with a new hangar under construction at its base at Amman's Marka airport. It follows the charter operator's signing of a deal with Bombardier to repair AOG (mechanically grounded) Challenger 600 series aircraft in the Middle East. Arab Wings, which has a sister company Gulf Wings operating out of Sharjah in the UAE, will next year add a Bombardier Global 500 to its fleet.
Source: Flight Daily News
Nigerian investigators are probing an apparent dual-engine power loss involving a Hawker 900XP business jet bound for the Ghanaian capital Accra. The aircraft had departed Abuja on 6 December and had been climbing through 24,000ft towards 28,000ft when the crew reported an indication from the right-hand engine. Hawker 900XPs are ...
US investigators believe a fire which badly damaged a Bombardier Challenger 650 last month occurred after the crew attempted to use braking to burn excess fuel prior to departure. The executive jet (N247QS) had been set to take off from Jackson in Wyoming for Norfolk, Virginia, on 17 November. According ...
Failure to remove a pitot probe cover and a cascade of resulting pilot missteps caused a 2023 inflight upset near Hartford that involved a Bombardier Challenger 300 business jet and killed one passenger.
