The first aircraft sections left Airbus’s Hamburg plant as scheduled this week for the new A320 final assembly line in Tianjin, China, where production is due to begin in August.
The forward and rear fuselage sections for the first aircraft (A320 MSN3591), as well as the wing, engine pylons, horizontal stabiliser and vertical fin, were […]

Fire has seriously damaged an ABX Air Boeing 767-200 freighter while the twin-jet was parked at San Francisco International Airport late yesterday.
The aircraft has been identified as a 22-year old example, registered N799AX, owned by the carrier and powered by General Electric CF6 engines.
It has suffered substantial damage to the forward fuselage, images […]

The US NTSB is requesting that the FAA put in place more comprehensive rejected landing simulation training and other safety advances in the wake of the Shuttle America ERJ170 overrun accident at the Cleveland Hopkins International airport on 18 February 2007.
Pilots of Delta Connection Flight 6448, carrying 71 passengers and four crewmembers, descended below […]

FAA oversight of airlines is again under scrutiny by a government watchdog agency in the wake of lapses in compliance at Southwest Airlines and American Airlines.
Specifically the DOT Inspector General is investigating FAA’s methods of ensuring compliance with Airworthiness Directives (ADs) and the agency’s risk-based air transportation oversight system (ATOS).
The US Congress requested […]

BAE Systems’ first example of its British Aerospace 146QT freighter has performed its first flight since the conversion programme was restarted last year.