The mystery of the radar-evading capabilities of the super-secret Northrop Grumman B-2 Spirit bomber intensified yesterday when Farnborough air traffic controllers reported they had tracked the aircraft during its brief appearance at Farnborough on Monday. A National ATC spokesman says the Siemens Plessy Watchman radar on the show site had detected the US aircraft at 30-50km (20-30 miles).
Source: Flight Daily News
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 ...
Investigators have determined that an aileron cable fracture on a Corendon Dutch Airlines Boeing 737-800 resulted from insufficient lubrication. The Dutch Safety Board says the inspection interval for the cable at the time of the 8 July 2022 incident was 4,000 cycles or 24 months. It had been inspected 20 ...
