Airbus booked 31 new orders in September and delivered 34 aircraft. Its 2008 gross order total now stands at 785. The manufacturer said deliveries during the month were mostly A320 family aircraft that went to Afriqiyah Airways, Air China, AirAsia, Avianca, British Airways, China Eastern Airlines, China Southern Airlines, CIT Leasing (for Juneyao Airlines and Qatar Airways), CSA Czech Airlines, easyJet, GECAS (for Aeroflot, East Star Airlines and Juneyao), GoAir, ILFC (for Shenzhen Airlines), IndiGo, JetBlue Airways, LAN Airlines, TAM, Turkish Airlines and US Airways.

Qantas A330-300 turbulence incident that injured 71 of 313 passengers and crew Tuesday likely was caused by a computer malfunction, the Australian Transport Safety Bureau said (ATWOnline, Oct. 7). The aircraft, on its way to Perth from Singapore before diverting to Learmonth, suffered "some irregularity" with its elevator control system that caused the dramatic altitude change, according to ATSB Director-Aviation Safety Investigation Julian Walsh. The A330 climbed some 300 ft. and then nosedived.

Commercial Aircraft Corp. of China yesterday launched the Shanghai Aircraft Customer Service Co., which will be the first domestic enterprise of its kind for civil aircraft and marks an important part of China's large commercial aircraft manufacturing strategy.

CTT Systems yesterday said it will supply Nord-Micro with its Cair System cabin humidifiers and Zonal Drying System designed for the A350 XWB. Nord-Micro will deliver the systems to Honeywell to offer as an option to Airbus and airlines.

Lufthansa Systems said Croatia Airlines selected its Lido eFlightBag solution featuring cockpit processing intelligence and paperless technology.

Pinnacle Airlines Corp., parent of Pinnacle Airlines and Colgan Air, plans to exercise up to 15 Q400 options before year end and shop the aircraft to its mainline partners, President and CEO Phil Trenary told ATWOnline yesterday.

CIT Aerospace delivered the third of four A321-100s to Qatar Airways. The fourth will arrive before year end.

Orix Aviation of Dublin announced the following transactions: Purchase of two 737-700s from BOC Aviation on lease to WestJet and one A319 from RBS Aerospace on lease to South African Airways; sale of two A320-200s to Global Knafaim Leasing; lease of three 737-400s to Comair (South Africa) until 2013; lease extension of two US Airways 767-200ERs until 2010.