A China Cargo Airlines Boeing 777-200LRFreighter, registration B-2078, operating as flight CK237 from Beijing to Copenhagen incurred a tail-strike during landing. Copyrighted photo. Author Jean-Pierre Gammelgaard. The crew decided to make a go-around and safely landed about 15 mins later. The incident occurred at 1457L on 17th Apr at...
A V Australia Boeing 777-300ER, registration VH-VOZ, operating flight VA2 from Los Angeles, LAX to Sydney, SYD had a rejected take off after the crew believed a tyre had burst. The crew reported hearing a loud bang which they believed to be a problem with a tyre in the...
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...
Southwest Airlines ( IATA : WN ) has decided to ground 81 Boeing 737 aircraft after one of its Boeing 737-300s had a loss of pressurization after a rupturing of fuselage of aircraft’s top. Flight 812, a scheduled flight operating from Phoenix to Sacramento diverted to Yuma, Arizona after...
It is a classic case of the cat jumping out of the bag, or it is a teaser like they did for the Qatar Airways 787 order. Whatever it is, Boeing’s own newairplane.com website has now confirmed what was a strong rumor during this year’s Asian Aerospace expo –...
Etihad Airways is believed to have cancelled four of the 35 Boeing 787 orders that it holds, according to multiple sources. The news may indeed be true as Boeing’s Orders & Deliveries website presently shows four 787 cancellations in 2011. The airline seems to have instead placed orders for...
Hong Kong Airlines, part of the Hainan Airlines Group, has signed an MoU with Boeing for 38 aircraft, including six 777-2OOLRFs, two 787-8s in VIP configuration and thirty 787-9s. It is not clear whether Hainan or Hong Kong Airlines will operate the two 787-8s. Hong Kong Airlines’ long-haul fleet...
Boeing and Air China today announced at the Asian Aerospace Expo that the carrier has signed an agreement for purchase of five Boeing 747-8 Intercontinental aircraft. “Air China has been operating 747s since the 1980s,” said He Li, vice president of Air China. “The new, high...
JAL refreshes its livery, bringing back the crane.
Libyan Justice Minister Mustafa Mohamed Abud Al Jeleil told the Swedish newspaper Expressen a short while ago that Colonel Muammar al-Gaddafi was the person who ordered the 1988 Lockerbie bombing, which killed 270 people. The bomb on Pan Am Flight 103, a Boeing 747-100 (N739PA) named Clipper Maid of...