US Airframer Boeing has said it will suspend production of its 737 Max aircraft next month. Boeing had continued with the production of the model which has been grounded for the last 9 months following two fatal crashes of the type linked to a flaw in the flight control software. [read more]
It left the runway at Cardiff Airport (CWL/EGFF) at 11:09 and touched down at St Athan (EGSY) at 11:18, has British Airways Boeing 747-400 G-CIVG just completed the worlds shortest Boeing 747 flight? The flight between the two neighbouring airfields was the last for G-CIVG which has been retired from [read more]
The final report into the crash of Lion Air Flight 610 in October 2018 has placed the blame on the manufacturer, Boeing as well as the Pilots and airline. 189 people were killed when the Boeing 737 Max 8 crashed into the sea on the 29th October 2018 and attention [read more]
Boeing has rolled out its latest ecoDemonstrator aircraft, a Boeing 777, which will serve as a flying test bed for over 50 projects. Boeing’s ecoDemonstrator program is flight test research program of aircraft company Boeing, which has used a series of specially modified aircraft to develop and test aviation technologies [read more]
The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has said it has found a “potential risk” with the Boeing 737 Max which it says must be rectified before the flight test program can commence. The Boeing 737 Max is currently grounded worldwide as a result of two fatal accidents linked it’s Maneuvering [read more]
The latest Boeing 747-400 to be retired by British Airways (BA/BAW) has arrived at St Athan (DGX/EGSY) in South Wales where it will be scrapped. G-BNLN (Lima November) took off for her final flight from London Heathrow (LHR/EGLL) this afternoon as “Speedbird 9179” and flew the short hop to South [read more]
British Airways parent company, International Airlines Group (IAG), has given Boeing a boost at the Paris Air Show with a letter of intent for Boeing 737 Max aircraft. The surprise move sees IAG commit to purchasing 200 of the Boeing 737 Max aircraft which are currently grounded following two fatal [read more]
Seattle-based air-framer Boeing has been hit with fresh woes as the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has issued an airworthiness directive requiring modifications to the tires and wheels on its Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner and Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner models. The directive states that the tires and wheels “could be susceptible to damage” [read more]
A statement released by Boeing shows that the airframer was aware of a software issue with MCAS on the Boeing 737 Max in 2017 but chose not to act. Manoeuvring Characteristics Augmentation System (MCAS) has been implicated in two fatal Boeing 737 Max 8 crashes a Lion Air Crash in [read more]
Boeing CEO, Dennis A. Muilenburg, has released a video statement saying he was “sorry for the deaths” following two fatal Boeing 737 Max accidents that have been linked to Boeing’s MCAS system. The statement came after the preliminary report into the crash of Ethiopian Airlines Flight ET302 in March which [read more]
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