FAA Flight Standards Service executive director David Boulter will take the agency’s top civil-service safety job on an interim basis when current acting associate administrator for Aviation Safety Chris Rocheleau leaves government service at the end of May.
Opposing flight-control inputs and a lack of overall coordination may explain an Air France Boeing 777-300ER flight crew’s challenges that led to a go-around amid concern that the aircraft’s flight-control system was malfunctioning, an update from French air accident bureau BEA suggests.
China’s busiest airport Guangzhou Baiyun has canceled more than 1,000 flights after three airport staff tested positive for COVID-19 on the evening of April 27.
Another delay in the 777X program for first deliveries to occur in 2025 is a good indication of the depth and breadth of issues that Boeing Commercial Aircraft as a company is facing.
A large white tent in the middle of an English Midland town center parking lot is providing the advanced air mobility industry with a sense of the infrastructure it may need to serve its customers.
It is widely held that sustainable aviation fuels (SAFs) are the best near-term solution to decarbonizing aviation, but huge demand and miniscule supply makes their adoption unfeasible on a widescale basis.
Airbus has scored a key point in its legal dispute with Qatar Airways over surface quality issues on the airline’s A350 fleet that could make an eventual settlement more likely.
Russian carriers will not be allowed to add any new air services to the U.S., or codeshare with U.S. carriers, after the U.S. FAA downgraded Russia’s air safety rating to Category 2.
Rolls-Royce is developing software to address a “design issue” that puts certain Trent 1000-powered Boeing 787s at risk of fuel flow restrictions under certain conditions.
More than two years after it shut its borders to non-residents, Hong Kong is finally allowing international travelers to enter the city starting in May, although still retaining test and quarantine requirements.
Juan Carlos Salazar, secretary general of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), met with regional stakeholders in Nairobi in December to discuss way to accelerate the recovery of African air connectivity.
The U.S. Justice Department (DOJ) is ready to appeal a recent decision issued by a Florida court that abolished mask mandates, while the FAA has opted to make its zero tolerance against unruly passengers permanent.
A one-month preliminary update on the March 21 fatal crash of a China Eastern Airlines Boeing 737-800 released by the Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) offers few new clues that explain the accident sequence and no information from the aircraft’s onboard recorders.
The governments of Singapore and New Zealand have signed a memorandum of arrangement (MOA) to drive the development of sustainable aviation between the two countries.
