ABC News correspondents, Lisa Stark and Ben Forer, recently published a news report about the Air France flight 447 crash. You can read the article, titled “Air France Flight 447: Black Boxes Indicate Pilot Error Caused Accident” here. The report tries to make the point that pilot error alone...
SriLankan Airlines has added the sixth Airbus A340-300 to its fleet. This takes the airline’s A340 fleet to the highest level it has ever been, and is the first A340 the airline has added in seven years. The aircraft 4R-ADG, MSN381, was ferried HKG-CMB today. It will...
SriLankan Airlines today added to its fleet the first brand new aircraft in ten years. The aircraft, An Airbus A320-200, is MSN4694 and registered 4R-ABM. The aircraft is powered by CFM56 engines ( whereas four of the airline’s present five A320s are powered by IAE V2500 engines ). The...
UPDATE: The BEA has issued a press release stating that the Le Figaro article is too sensationalist and that no conclusions can be drawn from the investigation’s current state. UNCONFIRMED NEWS REPORT Reputed French newspaper, La Figero, has posted an extraordinary report that the French investigation agency BEA has...
The BEA has confirmed that they have been able to retrieve the data from Air France flight 447‘s recorders. The French investigators confirmed that the recorders contained readable data, and that they had retrieved “all of the data” from the flight data recorder and “whole recording” of the last...
The BEA investigators have recovered the Cockpit-Voice Recorder of the Air France flight 447 which crashed in the Atlantic ocean on 1st June 2009. ( All photos courtesy of BEA ) The Cockpit Voice Recorder (CVR) has been localized at 21h50 UTC on Monday 2...
The May Day of year 2011 – turned out to be a day of significant importance to aviation. In the true aviation fashion, two events where pilots said “Mayday” were solved on the very day. 1. AF447 FDR memory unit retrieved The missing memory unit of the Air...
SriLankan Airlines has added its fifth Airbus A320 aircraft, 4R-ABL. The aircraft, MSN2345, powered by IAE V2500 engines was delivered on 8APR2011 as UL1423 from Guangzhou. The 2004 December built aircraft was previously with China Southern Airlines under the registration B-2374 and had been in storage for over an...
Recently, Airbus COO – Customers, Mr. John Leahy stated that Airbus believes a viable all new narrow-body aircraft could not be made before at least 2030. According to him, the 2020 entry into service of a possible Boeing 797, will deliver only a 3-3.5% better economics than a present...
AIRLINEINDUSTRYREVIEW.COM – The French BEA has reported that it has been able to locate previously not-found wreckage of Air France Flight 447 with its fourth search attempt which was launched in March 2011. The investigators have verified the wreckage as belonging to AF447 ( operated by Airbus A330-200 F-GZCP...