Qantas 787 Flight Flew With 4 Covered Static Ports

A Qantas 787 was found to have four of its engine static ports taped up on a flight used to transport freight from from Melbourne to Los Angeles. (www.gatechecked.com) Mehr...

China Eastern Black Box Points to Intentional Nosedive

Flight data indicates someone in the cockpit intentionally crashed a China Eastern jet earlier this year, according to people familiar with U.S. officials’ preliminary assessment of what led to the accident. (www.wsj.com) Mehr...

MH17 trial: Dutch prosecutors point to indisputable evidence

During a court hearing in the MH17 trial, Dutch prosecutors stressed that there was enough evidence of the defendants’ involvement in downing a passenger plane in July 2014. (www.ukrinform.net) Mehr...

Alaska Airlines says May will be 'choppy'

Alaska Airlines says May will be 'choppy' with 4% of flights canceled every day (www.foxbusiness.com) Mehr...

Frustrated with Inaccurate Estimated Taxi Times?

FlightAware launches new predictive technology to take the guesstimate out of taxi times. (flightaware.com) Mehr...

Southwest Airlines proposed a ploy to deceive FAA on Boeing 737 MAX, legal filing alleges

In April 2016, when Boeing’s 737 MAX was in flight test a year ahead of its certification by the Federal Aviation Administration, Southwest Airlines made a strange proposal to Boeing — one that suggests an effort to deceive the FAA. According to a legal filing by attorneys pursuing a lawsuit against the airline, Southwest manager Bill Lusk asked Boeing officials, including the MAX chief technical pilot Mark Forkner, if engineers could install a new flight control safety alert required for the… (www.seattletimes.com) Mehr...

FAA cleares PW-4000 powered 777s to fly again

United Airlines said Tuesday that the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) had cleared the return of the airlines’ Boeing 777s powered by Pratt & Whitney PW-4000 series engines... (www.aviationweekly.org) Mehr...