Iran’s initial formal investigative update on the Jan. 8 downing of a Ukraine International Airlines Boeing 737-800 sheds little new information on the disaster and stops short of confirming what its government has admitted: anti-aircraft missiles fired at the aircraft, seemingly in error, brought it down.
The Trump administration has proposed a fiscal 2021 budget of $17.5 billion for the FAA, which includes new funding for safety oversight in response to the Boeing 737 MAX crashes, but falls below the budget enacted for the current fiscal year.
Eurocontrol—the organization in charge of air traffic management (ATM) in Europe—has conducted further tests to validate the secondary runway aiming point (SRAP), a concept aimed at increasing runway capacity.
Aviation logistics specialist Menzies Aviation, today announced that Qatar Airways Cargo have moved into their new base within Menzies Aviation’s on-airport facilities at London Heathrow Airport.
FAA is advancing a construct based on third-party UAS Service Suppliers—rather than air traffic controllers—providing flight authorization, traffic deconfliction and other services.
EASA published an emergency airworthiness directive (AD) Feb. 6 requiring a liquid-prohibited zone in Airbus A350 cockpits, following two inflight engine shutdown incidents.
As the Wuhan coronavirus spreads throughout the Asia-Pacific region, some international manufacturers are pulling out of the Singapore Airshow, which runs from Feb. 11-16.
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) is suspending all flights to and from China, with the exception of Beijing, from Feb. 5 until further notice, the General Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA) said in a statement published by the UAE’s WAM official news agency.
The Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) is requiring Chinese airlines trimming services amid the Wuhan coronavirus outbreak to avoid general severance of the air connection to each foreign country now served.
By Chen Chuanren, Bradley Perrett, Adrian Schofield, Polina Montag-Girmes, Kurt Hofmann, Helen Massy-Beresford, Ben Goldstein
Multiple countries including Singapore and the Philippines are denying entry to travelers who have recently visited China in a bid to limit the spread of the novel coronavirus outbreak after the World Health Organization declared it an international public health emergency.
The FAA has proposed amending its certification procedures so that it can issue design approvals for some unmanned aircraft systems as a “special class” of aircraft.
Using data to flag engine reliability issues is a promising tool for predictive analytics, but the ongoing probe into a GE Aviation GE90 engine failure shows how precise analysis can help isolate engines for checks linked to airworthiness issues.
The Singapore government has enhanced efforts to prevent the spread of the Wuhan coronavirus by preventing all passengers who have traveled to China in the last two weeks from entering the country, regardless of nationality.
The FAA will introduce a new Space Data Integrator system in August to track space launch and recovery operations in real time with traditional air traffic, Administrator Steve Dickson said.
By Adrian Schofield, Chen Chuanren, Polina Montag-Girmes, Helen Massy-Beresford, Ben Goldstein
An increasing number of airlines across the world are making major operational changes in response to the effects of the rapidly spreading novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) outbreak that began in Wuhan, China.
The NTSB is urging Brazil’s National Civil Aviation Agency (ANAC) and the FAA to mandate Embraer E-Jets control column wiring inspections, revamp maintenance pr
A $760 billion, five-year infrastructure plan unveiled Jan. 29 by U.S. House Democrats revived a long-running dispute over whether to increase a user fee used to finance airport construction and renovation projects.
