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…
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 A passenger jet carrying more than 60 people…
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, the airport of departure. The aircraft…
(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 International lacks the waterfalls and…