Bradley Perrett covered China, Japan, South Korea and Australia. He is a Mandarin-speaking Australian.
Before joining Aviation Week in 2006 he was a macroeconomics, politics and aerospace journalist with Reuters. Perrett holds a bachelor’s degree in law from Macquarie University, Sydney. He left Aviation Week in 2020.
More state money is pouring into Shanghai Airlines, China’s unprofitable and fifth-largest airline. Bank of China has given the airline an 8 billion yuan (US$1.2 billion) line of credit. The loan follows shareholder approval of 1 billion yuan in new equity capital, the provision of which has presumably justified the increase in debt funding.
NO THANKS: Indonesia has declined a Qatari offer of 10 secondhand Dassault Mirage 2000s because it could not afford to maintain the fighters. Qatar has previously offered its Mirage 2000s to India.
Japanese meteorologists warned of a risk of wind shear at Tokyo Narita Airport the night before a Fedex MD-11 crashed on landing, killing the two crew members on board. Winds were reaching 72 km/h (39 kn.) at the time of the accident, about 06:49 local time (21:49 GMT). The aircraft crashed on the longer of Narita’s two runways. A video shown on television shows that the aircraft’s main gears touched down first but the nose then dropped heavily. The aircraft bounced and flipped over as flames exploded from the wing.
