ATW Photo Gallery-In the News-March 2015

French gendarmes and investigators work on March 26, 2015 in the scattered debris on the crash site of the Germanwings Airbus A320 that crashed in the French Alps above the southeastern town of Seyne. Photo: ANNE-CHRISTINE POUJOULAT/AFP/Getty Images

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

Debris field from Germanwings A320 crash. Photo: F. Balsamo - Gendarmerie nationale / Ministere de l'Interieur via Getty Images

French air accident investigation agency BEA has been able to extract an audio file from Germanwings flight 4U9525’s damaged cockpit voice recorder (CVR), but is still searching for the flight data recorder (FDR) and has not reached any conclusions about why the Airbus A320 crashed in the French Alps on March 24. Photo: BEA

RwandAir, the flag carrier of the central African state of Rwanda, signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) for two Airbus A330s, signaling a move into the long-haul market.

Irish lessor Avolon delivered its first of four Boeing 787-9 to Virgin Atlantic, which has a further nine in its fleet. Photo: Courtesy, Avolon

Hainan Airlines Boeing 737-800 is fueled with a blend of sustainable aviation biofuel and petroleum jet fuel at Shanghai Hongqiao International Airport‎. China's first commercial biofuel flight landed at Beijing Capital International Airport. Courtesy, Boeing

Middle East lessor Palma Holding has signed a firm purchase agreement for a single Bombardier Q400 NextGen, to be placed with RwandAir. Photo: Rendering of Q400 in RwandAir livery. Courtesy, Bombardier

Airbus has celebrated the delivery of its 9,000th aircraft at a ceremony in Hamburg, Germany on March 20. The aircraft is the first A321 to be delivered to Vietnamese carrier VietJetAir and will join the carrier’s all-Airbus A320 family fleet flying on its fast-growing Asia-Pacific network.

Boeing has delivered the first 787-9 assembled at its North Charleston, South Carolina facility to United Airlines. The aircraft is the 250th Dreamliner to be delivered. Photo: Courtesy, Boeing

American Airlines CEO Doug Parker said the airline subsidy evidence against Qatar and the United Arab Emirates was “overwhelming” and “unprecedented.” Delivering a keynote March 17 at the US Chamber of Commerce Foundation 14^th Annual Aviation Summit in Washington DC, Parker was the latest in a string of speakers who addressed the growing feud between the three major US airlines and the three Gulf carriers over Open Skies and subsidies. Photo: Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg via Getty Images

A Brussels Airlines A320 with a special livery inspired by the Tintin comic book “Red Rackham’s treasure” landed at Toulouse-Blagnac airport March 16. The livery was unveiled at the airlines’ Brussels Airport home base in Belgium. The aircraft is named “Rackham” after one of Tintin’s most popular adventures. The unique livery represents a great black shark, based on the shark shaped submarine invented by popular character Professeur Tournesol in the comic. The painting was carried out by aircraft paint artist Andre Eisele in Ostrava, Czech Republic and took 1,500 man hours in total. The special livery will remain until 2019.

Spanish carrier Vueling, the low-cost platform for International Airlines Group (IAG), has taken delivery of its first Airbus A320 with a new cabin configuration. Photo: Courtesy, Airbus

Vueling's new Airbus A320 cabin configuration also features a lavatory with full access to Persons with Reduced Mobility (PRM). Photo: Courtesy, Airbus

The first 242-tonne maximum take-off weight (MTOW) variant of the Airbus A330 has rolled out the paint shop in Toulouse in launch customer Delta Air Lines’ livery. ATW Photo: Courtesy, Airbus

Rockwell Collins is putting an airliner flight tracking service on the market via ARINC, the communications and integration specialist it acquired in 2013. ATW Photo: Courtesy, Rockwell Collins

The Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC) has placed a firm order for 30 Commercial Aircraft Corp. of China (COMAC) ARJ21-700 regional aircraft. ATW Photo: Courtesy, COMAC

Turkish Airlines has placed a firm order for four additional Airbus A330-200 freighters that will be operated by its Turkish Cargo business. ATW Photo: Courtesy,

Los Angeles-based Air Lease Corp. (ALC) has finalized its order for 30 A321LRs and 25 A330-900neos. ATW Photo: Courtesy, Airbus

A Delta Air Lines MD-88 rests on a berm at LaGuardia Airport March 5, 2015 in Queens, New York City. Delta flight 1086, flying to New York from Atlanta, reportedly skidded off the runway after it landed during a snowstorm. ATW Photo: New York City Fire Department (FDNY) via Getty Images

Luxembourg-based cargo carrier Cargolux Airlines has taken delivery of its 30th Boeing 747 freighter to the. To mark the occasion, Cargolux’s latest 747-8F carries a special decal of the “Father of the Boeing 747,” Joe Sutter, the Boeing engineer who led the team that designed the airplane. Cargolux currently has two unfilled orders for 747-8F, with the all-Boeing carrier operating a fleet composed entirely of 747-400Fs and 747-8Fs.

Hawaiian Airlines has completed a comprehensive retrofit on the first of its 18 Boeing 717 aircraft, featuring an island-inspired interior cabin redesign and new lightweight Main Cabin seating from Acro Aircraft Seating Ltd. The airline’s entire narrowbody fleet, which operates more than 160 short-haul flights daily between the islands of the state, will be retrofitted to feature these new cabin enhancements by the end of 2015. Photo: Courtesy, Hawaiian Airlines

Iberia said it has reached an agreement with Airbus for the early delivery of eight A330-200s ordered last year. ATW Rendering: Courtesy, Airbus

A Turkish Airlines Airbus A330-300 exited the runway and came to stop in a grassy area with its nose on the ground after landing at Kathmandu, Nepal. ATW Photo: PRAKASH MATHEMA/AFP/Getty Images

The Indonesia Navy has called off the retrieval mission of the wreckage of AirAsia QZ8501 after divers declared there were no more bodies inside the main fuselage, which has not been able to be lifted from the seabed of the Java Sea off Pangkalan Bun in south Borneo. ATW Photo: ADEK BERRY/AFP/Getty Images

Irish low-cost carrier (LCC) Ryanair has been revealed as the buyer of three Boeing 737-800s that had previously been on the manufacturer’s books as having been sold to an unidentified customer. ATW Photo: by Rob Finlayson

Azerbaijan-based Silk Way West has ordered three Boeing 747-8 freighters, valued at more than $1.1 billion at current list prices. ATW Photo: Courtesy, Boeing

As part of GE9X engine development for the Boeing 777X, GE Aviation has started ground tests on a GEnx engine containing ceramic matrix composite (CMC) components in the high pressure turbine and combustor. ATW Photo: Courtesy, GE Aviation

The larger version of Bombardier’s CSeries aircraft, the CS300, reached an altitude of 41,000 ft. (12,500 m.) and a speed of 255 knots (470 km/h) during its first flight Feb. 27. ATW Photo: Courtesy, Bombardier

Argentina’s flagship carrier, Aerolíneas Argentinas, has taken delivery of the first of four new directly purchased Airbus A330-200 aircraft as a part of the carrier’s fleet renewal strategy. ATW Photo: Courtesy, Airbus

Mexican airline Interjet has firmed 10 Sukhoi Superjet 100 options valued at $350 million. ATW Photo: Courtesy, Interjet

Boeing has begun several months of flights with its ecoDemonstrator 757 to evaluate new technologies to improve commercial aviation's efficiency, reduce noise and carbon emissions.