Aircraft & Engines-March 27, 2015

All Nippon Airways (ANA) has finalized an order for three Boeing 787-10 aircraft, valued at approximately $900 million at current list prices.

Germanwings parent Lufthansa has created a new group safety pilot position, effectively immediately, and is updating its cockpit rules after Tuesday’s fatal Airbus A320 crash, which killed all 150 people on board when it went down into the southern French Alps on a scheduled flight from Barcelona to Düsseldorf.

Hainan Airlines has ordered 30 Boeing 787-9 aircraft to meet continuous growth of China’s market demand.

A French prosecutor said information from Germanwings flight 4U9525’s cockpit voice recorder (CVR) indicates the co-pilot “through a voluntary act” descended the Airbus A320 into the French Alps.

A helicopter team has recovered the cockpit voice recorder (CVR) of the Germanwings Airbus A320 that crashed in the French Alps Tuesday.

The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has approved an April 22 election date for the more than 3,000 workers at Boeing’s 787 production facility in South Carolina to vote on unionization, according to a statement by the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM).

French investigators reached the scene of the Germanwings Airbus A320 accident late in the afternoon local time and have recovered one of the aircraft’s two recorders, although whether it was the flight data recorder or the cockpit voice recorder was not announced.