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Archive for 2009/02/26


Twitter becomes the first word of disaster

The immediacy of new media is now major factor for airline management and safety regulators as Twitter, the instant-messaging, for immediate-broadcast email service, claims its place as the first source of public word of airline disasters.
When a Turkish Airlines Boeing 737 landed short and broke apart at Amsterdam’s Schipol on 25 February, the […]

Mexicana seals deal for up to 15 CRJ200s: Borja

Mexicana will take delivery of the first of up to 15 Bombardier CRJ200s at the end of this week as it gears up to launch a new regional carrier in Guadalajara
The airline group unveiled plans early this month to launch on 15 March a new regional carrier with a fleet of 13 leased second-hand CRJ200s. […]

Engine problem just one possible scenario in Schiphol crash: investigators

Dutch investigators insist that engine problems are just one of a number of possibilities under consideration in their probe into yesterday’s Turkish Airlines…

Global traffic heavily down again in January: IATA

Figures for January released by IATA show passenger and air freight traffic heavily down again, dropping 5.6% and 23.2% respectively. The sharp fall…

Turkish 737 had ‘low forward speed’ before Amsterdam crash

Dutch investigators have started analysing the two flight recorders retrieved from the crashed Turkish Airlines Boeing 737-800 at Amsterdam Schiphol