The launch of Boeing and Lockheed Martins Starliner capsule was scrubbed in the final few minutes before launch yesterday due to a ground support equipment issue which has also led to the cancellation of its back-up launch slot due today. The United Launch Alliance (ULA) Starliner was due to carry [read more]
US plane maker Boeing is facing fresh probes from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) after it admitted it may have not inspected Boeing 787 Dreamliners properly. The investigation will look at whether staff falsified records about aircraft rolling off the production 787 production line forcing Boeing to reinspect all current [read more]
A Virgin Atlantic Airbus Boeing 787 wing has collided with the tail of a British Airways Airbus A350 whilst being pushed back at London Heathrow Airport (LHR/EGLL). Pictures on social media show significant damage to the wing of the Boeing 787 and the horizontal stabilizer of the A350. It is [read more]
Boeing CEO Dave Calhoun will leave the Seattle-based airframer by the end of the year as company stuggles with recent issues resulting in two fatal accidents and several serious incidents on its Boeing 737 and 787 range. Stan Deal, Head of Commercial Airplanes at Boeing is also retiring with imemdiate [read more]
Irish budget airline Ryanair (FR/RYR) has said it will need to cancel parts of its planned summer schedule as Boeing will fail to deliver all of the 57 Boeing 737 Max aircraft expected in the next few months. The cuts are equivalent to pulling 10 aircraft’s worth of flights from [read more]
Abu Dhabi based Etihad has taken delivery of three new Boeing 787 Dreamliners as it seeks to expand its fleet to 160 aircraft by 2030. The airline also has plans to operate to 125 destinations by the same year. The Boeing 787-9 aircraft all feature Etihad’s new cabin in a [read more]
An initial report by the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has said that it is likely that up to 4 bolts were missing from the emergency exit door panel that detached in flight from an Alaska Airlines Boeing 737 Max 9 last month causing an explosive decompression. The 737 Max [read more]
Budget airline Ryanair (FR/RYR) has said it will take up cancelled 737 Max slots as airlines show mixed confidence in the single-aisle airliner. United Airlines has recently said it doesn’t see the 737 Max as part of its future fleet plans and throwing doubts over an order for 250 of [read more]
According to the latest data from ADS, the UK trade organisation representing the Aerospace, Defence, Security and Space sectors, aircraft deliveries are the highest they have been since 2018. Aircraft deliveries in 2023 totalled 1,265 from the two largest aircraft manafacturers Airbus and Boeing, an 11% increase on 2022. Orders [read more]
Boeing 737 Max 9s being grounded across North America is just the latest in Boeing’s woes with its Max product line so is it time for Boeing to rethink things? Well, that of course depends on the NTSB’s findings but the 737 Max first came to headline news when the [read more]
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