The pilot in command of Asiana Airlines Flight 214, the Boeing 777-200ER that crashed on landing at San Francisco International Airport (SFO) July 6, told investigators that he assumed the aircraft’s auto-throttles were engaged and maintaining a speed of 137 knots as the 777 came in for a landing.
A US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) “preliminary review” of Asiana Airlines Flight 214’s cockpit voice recorder (CVR) and flight data recorder (FDR) has revealed that the Boeing 777-200ER approached San Francisco International Airport (SFO) too slowly.
The European Commission plans to overhaul the rules on state aid for airports, which have come under fire from the region’s airlines, airports and regional organizations.
The flight data recorder (FDR) and cockpit voice recorder (CVR) have been recovered from the wreckage of Asiana Airlines Flight 214, according to the US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB).
Asiana Airlines said it is unaware of any mechanical problems with the Boeing 777-200ER that crashed on landing Saturday at San Francisco International Airport (SFO), killing two passengers.
[UPDATED] A US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) emergency “go-team” has been dispatched to San Francisco International Airport (SFO) to investigate Saturday’s crash landing of Asiana Airlines Flight 214, a Boeing 777-200ER en route from Seoul Incheon International Airport.
The FAA confirmed to ATW that Asiana Airlines Flight 214, a Boeing 777 arriving from Seoul, South Korea, crashed while landing on runway 28L at San Francisco International Airport.
The airline industry must find ways to improve returns for our investors to attract the estimated $4 to $5 trillion of capital investment required to finance new aircraft needed to serve Asia-Pacific and other emerging regions over the next two decades, IATA DG and CEO Tony Tyler said in a newly released study.
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) aviation arm operates in some of the most unforgiving and hostile areas in the world playing a major role in the respiration process of the afflicted areas.
Libyan Airlines has selected a comprehensive package of its aeronautical solutions from Germany's Lufthansa Systems. The two companies signed a five-year contract for the Lido/Flight flight planning solution as well as the Lido/RouteManual and Lido/eRouteManual navigation charts.
Sheikh Zayed Air Navigation Centre of UAE General Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA) has successfully implemented Arrival Manager System (AMAN) -the first to go operational in the Middle East .
FAA is investigating an incident in which a Spirit Airlines Airbus A319 apparently came within 1.6 miles horizontally and 400 feet vertically of a skydiving aircraft.
WheelTug has completed a Slot Purchase Agreement with airBerlin, bringing the order book for its electric drive system to 549 delivery slots reserved by 10 airlinesin Europe, the US, the Middle East and Asia-Pacific.
Boeing has made significant improvements in its environmental performance, even as total aircraft deliveries increased 50% from 2007 to 2012, the company announced in its annual Environment Report. Boeing's manufacturing and office employees consumed less energy and water, reduced carbon dioxide emissions, generated less hazardous waste and sent less solid waste to landfills. Highlights of the 2013 report include:
ATW editorswill select the winners of its 2 nd annual Eco-Aviation Awards in July in the lead up to its 6 th annual Eco-Aviation Conference in Washington, DC. This year’s conferencewill focus on overall sustainability, affordability and overcoming political hurdles within the air transport industry, particularly those social, economic and environmental developments that will improve and have a lasting effect on the industry’s future environmental performance. Panel topics include:
Rolls-Royce has admitted it “clearly fell short” after the Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) concluded that a fatigue crack in an incorrectly manufactured oil feed pipe caused a Qantas Airbus A380 engine failure.
Airbus and CAE are ending their 10-year airline training services partnership for a new relationship that gives Airbus broader scope to expand its own direct training service offerings.
The US District of Columbia Appeals Court has reversed a July 2012 decision by the DC District Court to uphold the Export-Import Bank’s 2011 issuance of $3.4 billion in loan guarantees to Air India for its purchase of 30 Boeing widebodies, including 28 787 Dreamliners.
