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Boeing woes mount up as 787 hit by FAA directive over tyres

06/06/2019 < 1 minute read
Written by: Lisa Parkes

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]

LEAP engines on a Boeing 737 Max (Image: Nick Harding/TransportMedia UK)

FAA finally grounds Boeing 737 Max 8 after crash discovery

14/03/2019 2 minute read
Written by: Nick Harding

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has finally joined the rest of the world and grounded the Boeing 737 Max 8 following last weeks crash which killed 157 people. The FAA said that it was clear that the track of the Ethiopian Airlines flight ET302 “was very close and behaved very [read more]

737 Max: Pressure mounts on FAA to put safety first

13/03/2019 3 minute read
Written by: Nick Harding

Pressure is growing on the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to follow the rest of the world and ground the Boeing 737 Max 8 fleet following sundays second fatal accident of the type in 6 months. US Senators and Flight Crew Unions are among those who have called on the [read more]

Virgin Atlantic Boeing 787-9 G-VOWS (Image: Max Thrust Digital)

Rolls-Royce powered Dreamliners have ETOPS limited

17/04/2018 2 minute read
Written by: Nick Harding

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has limited the ETOPS capability of Rolls-Royce powered Boeing 787 Dreamliners. An airworthiness directive, which will be published today, will say that the fleet of 787-8 and 787-9 aircraft that are powered by Rolls-Royce Trent 1000 Package C engines will be limited to 140min ETOPS. [read more]

Airbus A350-1000 certified by the FAA & EASA

27/11/2017 2 minute read
Written by: Rhys Hutchings

On the 25th November 2017 the Airbus A350-1000 officially got its certification by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA). Airbus’ biggest variant of the A350 got its type rating last Tuesday after a extensive flight test program carried out by the Airbus team over [read more]

Air Canada pilots ignore call to abort landing six times

26/10/2017 4 minute read
Written by: William Hogarth

For the second time in less than 6 months, Air Canada pilots have been involved in an incident while landing at San Francisco. The second incident occurred on Sunday night when Air Canada flight AC781 from Montreal was ordered to abort its landing six times by Air Traffic Control (ATC). [read more]

FAA issues airworthiness directive for A380 engines

17/10/2017 < 1 minute read
Written by: Lisa Parkes

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has issued an emergency airworthiness directive for the immediate inspection of Airbus A380 engines. The airworthiness directive (AD) 2017-21-51 relates to the uncontained engine failure of an Air France Airbus A380 engine over Greenland. It affects Engine Alliance (EA) GP7270, GP7272 and GP7277 engines types. [read more]