Tag: passenger jet
UAE fund in talks with Russia about developing supersonic passenger jet
Chief Assignment Editor- November 28, 2019 00:28Director for International Cooperation and Regional Policy of Russian defense and technology company Rostec said that United Arab Emirates-based investment fund is interested in cooperating with Russia to develop a ... Read More
Russian MC-21 passenger jet will make its public debut at MAKS-2019 air show
Chief Assignment Editor- June 7, 2019 17:07Russia will present the MC-21 medium-haul airliner, it is developing, to the public for the first time at the MAKS-2019 air show this summer, President of Russia’s United Aircraft Corporation ... Read More
Russia to replace its new passenger jet’s US engines with the Russian-made ones
Chief Assignment Editor- April 23, 2019 18:50Russia’s first post-Soviet large domestic airliner, MC-21-300, has received two of the first 16 domestically-made engines to eventually replace American Pratt & Whitney engines that it currently uses. The Irkut ... Read More
Japan’s first domestic passenger plane since 1960s to challenge Boeing and Airbus
Chief Assignment Editor- April 19, 2019 00:20Mitsubishi Aircraft Corporation, an aviation unit of Japanese industrial giant, is planning to start deliveries of Japan's first domestically-produced passenger plane since the 1960s as soon as next year. The ... Read More
‘Stable genius’ Trump to Boeing: Add ‘some great features’ & rebrand 737 MAX
Chief Assignment Editor- April 15, 2019 15:30President Trump offered some unsolicited advice to aviation giant Boeing on how to tackle the problems with its Boeing 737 MAX model after worldwide grounding. The presidential wisdom fit into ... Read More
Zero: Boeing receives no commercial orders for its troubled 737 MAX aircraft
Chief Assignment Editor- April 11, 2019 19:50Boeing did not win any commercial orders for its 737 MAX jet in March following a second deadly crash involving the plane. It is the first time in seven years ... Read More
Indonesian national airline Garuda cancels order for 49 Boeing 737 Max 8 jets
Chief Assignment Editor- March 22, 2019 16:30Indonesia’s flag carrier Garuda has announced the cancellation of its multi-billion-dollar order for 49 Boeing 737 Max 8 passenger jets after two fatal crashes involving the aircraft in less than ... Read More
UN FAO: Sorrow at the loss of a colleague, other victims in Ethiopia crash
Chief Assignment Editor- March 11, 2019 19:25UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) is in mourning at the loss of one of our team when an Ethiopian Airlines passenger jet bound for Nairobi crashed near Addis Ababa, ... Read More
China Airlines 747 passenger jet pilot falls asleep mid-flight at 35,000 feet
Chief Assignment Editor- February 22, 2019 15:35China Airlines senior pilot has been filmed by his colleague asleep at the controls of a 747 passenger jet in slightly terrifying recently released footage. Those with a fear of ... Read More
Farewell A380: Airbus announces the end of superjumbo production
Chief Assignment Editor- February 14, 2019 17:25European aerospace giant Airbus has announced Thursday it will stop making its superjumbo A380 in 2021. The announcement came after Airbus' biggest customer, Emirates, reduced the number of orders for ... Read More
Russia announces new supersonic passenger plane project
Chief Assignment Editor- January 31, 2019 15:25Russian Ministry of Industry announced that Russia's United Aviation Corporation (UAC) will develop a new supersonic passenger jet starting in 2022. The last Russian supersonic travel project was launched fifty ... Read More
No drone collision with British Airways jet at Heathrow
editor- January 8, 2019 18:33Drone collides with passenger jet at London's Heathrow Airport. Read More
How Emirates gets a handle on aircraft turnaround in Dubai?
Juergen T Steinmetz- December 19, 2018 08:05Delays in aircraft turnaround in DXB has to be kept under control. A new innovative application built in-house by Emirates called the Hub Monitor is invented to ensure this. Read More
Investigators trying to determine cause of Lion Air crash
editor- April 16, 2013 09:19BALI, Indonesia - Investigators were working to determine what caused a new Lion Air passenger jet to miss the runway and crash into the sea off the Indonesian resort island ... Read More
Smoke in cabin forces AA jet to return to Phoenix
editor- May 16, 2011 02:47PHOENIX, Ariz. — A Chicago-bound passenger jet was forced to return to Phoenix Sunday morning, after the pilot reported smoke in the cabin. Read More