Three US Airways Boeing 767s had to be removed from service for two days last month after engineers discovered that recently installed fuse pins in the engine pylons may have been too strong to allow the engines to safely break away in the event of excessive vibration or a gear-up landing, writes Mary Kirby.
The discovery came as a result of reviewing an airworthiness directive "that had conflicting statements from a Boeing service bulletin", says US Airways.
Source: Flight International
Investigators have determined that a Delta Air Lines Airbus A330-300 touched down short of the runway at Amsterdam, after the crew sought to mitigate a perceived risk of overrun and descended below the glideslope.
American Airlines and United Airlines are resuming flights having been forced to temporarily halt operations as part of the wide-ranging global impact of an IT outage today.
A global technology outage appears to have caused several major US airlines to ground departing aircraft, in addition to creating problems at airports and airlines worldwide that threatens to snarl air traffic.
