The runway at Yantai Airport in China's Shandong Province suffered surface flooding of up to 50cm on 12 August, which led to airport workers attempting to push a Shandong Airlines Bombardier CRJ200LR regional jet to safety.
Many areas of China have been hit by flash flooding during this year's unusually severe rainy season.
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Source: FlightGlobal.com
German turboprop manufacturer Deutsche Aircraft is justifying an ambitious outlook for its D328eco, arguing that there are fewer rival manufacturers pursuing the primary markets. Deutsche Aircraft, in its latest full-year financial statement, says its planning for the D328eco “assumes” sales of 1,000 aircraft, based on various market studies – a ...
Investigators are probing an in-flight oscillation at cruise altitude which affected a South African Airways Airbus A330-300 operating a domestic service. The aircraft – flying from Cape Town to Johannesburg on 27 October – had been cruising at 41,000ft when it started to oscillate in pitch, between nose-up and nose-down. ...
Pilots of a Boeing 737-800 did not notice that the aircraft’s bleed-air system was not active before the jet took off from Manchester, triggering a cabin-altitude warning that remained active for over 40min. UK investigators found that the bleed-air switches had incorrectly been left off during air-conditioning pack maintenance, and ...
