A French prosecutor said information from Germanwings flight 4U9525’s cockpit voice recorder (CVR) indicates the co-pilot “through a voluntary act” descended the Airbus A320 into the French Alps.
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.
The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has approved an April 22 election date for the more than 3,000 workers at Boeing’s 787 production facility in South Carolina to vote on unionization, according to a statement by the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM).
American Airlines chairman and CEO Doug Parker told Congress that US airlines favor moving US air traffic control (ATC) to “a commercialized, non-profit type governance structure.”
French investigators reached the scene of the Germanwings Airbus A320 accident late in the afternoon local time and have recovered one of the aircraft’s two recorders, although whether it was the flight data recorder or the cockpit voice recorder was not announced.
Lufthansa CEO Carsten Spohr has issued a statement via Twitter expressing his concerns over the fate of flight 4U 9525, operated by its fully owned Germanwings subsidiary.
A Hainan Airlines Boeing 737-800 has completed China’s first passenger flight with sustainable biofuel made by Sinopec from waste cooking oil collected from restaurants in China.
United Airlines pilots have asked management to overhaul training programs to place a greater emphasis on communication and ensure crews follow standard operating procedures more closely.
[UPDATED] Lufthansa’s pilot union Vereinigung Cockpit (VC) will continue strike action through Saturday for the fourth day this week, in a series of ongoing protests over transition payments for early retirees.
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.
Lufthansa’s pilot union Vereinigung Cockpit (VC) continued strike action Friday for the third day this week, in a series of ongoing protests over transition payments for early retirees.
Citing “distortions in the market,” European Union (EU) transport commissioner Violeta Bulc said she will seek a new mandate from EU countries to open talks with the United Arab Emirates, Qatar and Saudi Arabia over “unfair subsidies to airlines.”
Openness to a restructuring of FAA—including fundamental air traffic control (ATC) reform—appears to be widespread in government and among industry stakeholders, but disputes over the agency’s funding threaten to unravel any potential consensus on reorganizing FAA.
Lufthansa’s pilot union Vereinigung Cockpit (VC) continued a strike action Thursday for the second day this week, the 12th strike in a series of ongoing protests over transition payments for early retirees.
