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Indicators point to a fault with the oil system which led to a fire developing inside the engine and damaged not just the engine, but also the infrastructure involved in the trial.
The Aug. 2 incident on a ‘Package A’ configuration engine later prompted Boeing to push back first 787 deliveries to launch customer All Nippon Airways to February 2011; the aircraft maker had planned to hand over the first aircraft by year-end under the latest of several schedule revisions. (www.aviationweek.com) Read more...
Comair will lose more than half its fleet of planes over the next two years, company officials told the regional airline's workers Wednesday morning, meaning another round of major job cuts is coming at the Cincinnati area's only homegrown airline. (www.usatoday.com) Read more...
This morning, Frontier Airlines announced a waiver for flights to or from airports in Newport News/Williamsburg, Va., and Raleigh/Durham, N.C. Travel may be changed for those cities through Saturday. For (www.denverpost.com) Read more...
Pictures have emerged of the damaged Rolls-Royce RB211 engine on a Qantas Airlines Boeing 747-400 that experienced an uncontained engine failure on departure from the San Francisco International airport en route to Sydney late Monday night.
According to ... FlightAware.com ... the aircraft was climbing through 25,000ft (7,620m) approximately 20 minutes after departure when it experienced the problem (www.flightglobal.com) Read more...
A passenger plane travelling from San Francisco to Australia was forced to make an emergency landing after one of its engines burst into flames. (www.youtube.com) Read more...
Germany’s two biggest air-passenger carriers, called a national levy on flight tickets that came into effect today a “disastrous” step that will defeat its own purpose. (www.bloomberg.com) Read more...
A delegation of high-level Pakistani military officials are boycotting a planned meeting with U.S. Central Command in protest after they claim to have been taken off a United flight and were "interrogated and rudely treated by security officials at Dulles International Airport," (travel.usatoday.com) Read more...
U.S. District Judge Richard Seeborg in San Francisco today agreed with Joseph Alioto, a lawyer for consumers in the antitrust suit who argued Smisek gave potentially conflicting testimony in court about models projecting how many flights might be cut if the merger goes forward. (www.bloomberg.com) Read more...
The owner of a Dallas strip club has agreed to shut off a large spotlight that distracted a Southwest Airlines pilot landing at Love Field over the weekend. (www.dallasnews.com) Read more...
A Bellevue, Washington, woman is suing American Airlines, saying she was traumatized when an American plane ran off the runway at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport in 2008. (www.msnbc.msn.com) Read more...
