Preliminary inquiries indicate that the Nationwide Airlines Boeing 737-200 which shed its starboard engine on take-off from Cape Town two days ago had suffered ingestion resulting in catastrophic engine failure.
Nationwide states that the ingestion of an object, the nature of which is still unclear, led the Pratt Whitney JT8D engine to fail […]

Boeing is delaying the roll-out of the 747-8 Freighter by three months to mid-February 2009, says Flightblogger, the newest addition to Flight’s growing blog portfolio.
Flightblogger’s latest blog post says that the delay is to enable Boeing to complete assembly of all remaining 747-400Fs on firm order before making the switchover to the new model. […]

Boeing is delaying the roll-out of the 747-8 Freighter by three months to mid-February 2009, says Flightblogger, the newest addition to Flight’s growing blog portfolio.
Flightblogger’s latest blog post says that the delay is to enable Boeing to complete assembly of all remaining 747-400Fs on firm order before making the switchover to the new model. […]

The US National Transportation Safety Board lamented the limited progress being made by the FAA in getting its top safety recommendations codified into rules.
The observations were part of the Board’s annual review of its “Most Wanted” safety concerns for all transportation modes. Of the 46 recommendations on its list, 19 are directed to the […]