Preliminary investigations have discovered a fatigue crack in the aft engine mount of the Nationwide Airlines Boeing 737-200 which shed its right-hand powerplant on take-off last month.
The finding follows the South African civil aviation authority’s 29 November decision to ground the carrier pending airworthiness and maintenance checks. The airline has had to cancel more […]

A fire destroyed the domestic passenger terminal at Indonesia’s fourth-busiest airport at the weekend.
The fire broke out late on 1 December at Polonia Airport in Medan. Medan, in North Sumatra, is Indonesia’s third largest city and its airport is the country’s fourth busiest.
Pictures of the airport show its domestic passenger terminal was completely […]

Farnborough International Airshow 1948-2008
Farnborough Aerodrome is renowned for its long-standing aviation links. No other site in the United Kingdom, possibly the world, can claim a closer, more continuous association with the history of man’s conquest of air than the airfield at Farnborough.
Aircraft and, before that, man-carrying kites, airships and balloons […]