A Nippon Cargo Boeing 747F has experienced a harsh tail strike during a go-around at Tokyo’s Narita Airport. The airframe was badly damaged, with approximately three meters of abrasion visible on the underside of the fuselage. The plane landed safely on its second attempt, and all crew were…

Demand for air cargo took a steep dip in 2020, but yields and load factors improved as carriers like United adjusted capacity to take account of severely diminished passenger traffic. (Photo: United) Global air freight demand last year registered its steepest decline in demand since the International Air Transport…

On January 29, 2021, Hainan Airlines parent company HNA Group applied for bankruptcy and reorganization after a long period of financial struggles. “The relevant creditors applied to the court for bankruptcy and reorganization of our group because our group could not pay off their due debts,” HNA Group statement reads. The…

EASA finally ungrounds Boeing 737 MAX

The European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) has issued the final Airworthiness Directive (AD) to unground the Boeing 737 MAX aircraft in Europe.

EASA, the certification and safety authority of Europe, has ungrounded the Boeing 737 MAX aircraft. The agency issued an AD on January 27, 2021, outlining the final steps operators of the aircraft have to complete before the jet can once again fly passengers commercially. The steps include installing new software on the aircraft's computers, including the Flight Control Computer (FCC), physically separating electrical wires that go from the cockpit to the horizontal stabilizer, updating the Aircraft Flight Manual (AFM), and pilots completing the new and updated training course, which includes flying in the simulator. Following the steps, airlines will have to test the new systems, including a new Angle Of Attack (AOA) system and conduct an operational readiness flight "to ensure that all design changes have been correctly implemented and the aircraft successfully and safely brought out of its long period of storage," read the AD...READ MORE

The Boeing 737-524, a Sriwijaya Air flight, had taken off from Jakarta. Officials said they believed they found part of the wreckage. Navy divers in Jakarta preparing for a search and rescue operation after Sriwijaya Air Flight 182 crashed into the Java Sea on Saturday. Credit... Ed Wray/Getty Images…

On 3 January, a Turkish Airlines Boeing 777-200 freighter (registered TC-LJN) operated cargo flight TK6220 between Istanbul Atatürk (ISL), Turkey, and Almaty (ALA), Kazakhstan. During take-off from runway 05, however, the aircraft struck a flock of birds.  The pilots entered a holding pattern and returned back to Istanbul Atatürk,…

(CNN) — This was a heinous year for the aviation industry. Absolutely horrendous, in fact. But among the gloom there were some lighter, crazier, even hopeful moments that captured our imaginations during the dark times. Here are the wildest. 1. A tiny airport in Alaska became the world's busiest Alaska's Anchorage…

On the morning before Christmas Eve, a pilot took to the skies to deliver a homage to the vaccine to be rolled out across the country starting Sunday. During a flight over the south of Germany, they drew an intricate path in the shape of a syringe, complete…

It's not every day you see a plane emergencyslide in use. It's even less likely you'll see two passengers use it to slide out of a plane with their dog before the flight takes off. But on Monday, that happened at LaGuardia Airport in Queens, New York. "During…

A new, more infectious strain of the COVID-19 virus forced multiple governments worldwide to impose temporal flight bans to and out of the United Kingdom (UK). On December 21, 2020, more than 25 European and non-European countries announced air travel restrictions due to the spread of a new…

Air New Zealand’s Lord of the Rings Boeing 747 is parked in Spain, waiting to take its final flight across the Atlantic to one of the US’s aircraft graveyards. However, all hope is not yet lost. A group of aviation enthusiasts is seeking investors to bring the iconic…