First officer Maliha Sami of Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) has become the first woman pilot in the company to fly an Airbus A310. Sami was also the first woman pilot to fly the Airbus A300 as co-pilot, and was the first woman pilot to join PIA in 1990. Before that she spent six years with Pakistan's Civil Aviation Authority flying the Beech Super King twin engine aircraft, again the first woman to do so.
Source: Flight International
Investigators probing the failure and separation of a Cargolux Boeing 747-400F’s body main landing-gear assembly at Luxembourg last year have found evidence that components in its inner shock-strut cylinder failed. But while a previous similar occurrence involving a Nippon Cargo Airlines 747-400F at Amsterdam in September 2005 was traced to ...
UK investigators have found that a Boeing 737-400 freighter crew inadvertently used weight data from a previous flight to calculate take-off performance, resulting in a tail-strike at East Midlands. The West Atlantic aircraft – with a crew of two, including a first officer under training – had been bound for ...
Advanced propulsion developer ZeroAvia has revised the flight-test plan for its ZA600 powertrain, transferring a second Dornier Do 228 twin-turboprop to the UK in support of its certification push.
