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.
The crew of a Shenzhen Airlines aircraft, mishearing a controller’s instruction, entered a runway Dec. 14 at Nanchang Changbei International Airport as a Hainan Airlines flight was approaching to land.
TransAsia Airways is likely to be smaller than it was at the time of its Nov. 22 failure, if a revival attempt by fellow Taiwanese carrier Far Eastern Air Transport succeeds.
The Chinese navy has conducted a live-fire exercise for a battle group centered on the aircraft carrier Liaoning, acknowledged by the service as not yet ready for war.
