Aviation regulator DGCA has directed Indian airlines to inspect the Boeing B737 aircraft in their fleet after the US aviation regulator FAA issued an emergency directive on this matter on Friday, officials said.
The certification flights, which are expected to take approximately three days, will include a wide array of flight maneuvers and emergency procedures to assess whether the changes meet FAA certification standards.
Budget carrier SpiceJet expects to finalize a compensation deal with Boeing for grounding of its 737 Max aircraft by the end of the current quarter.
Iranian Ambassador to Ukraine Manouchehr Moradi has said that Tehran might hand over the black boxes of a downed Ukrainian Boeing passenger plane to Ukraine
According to Bloomberg reports, the B777 will be Boeing’s most expensive aircraft, priced at $442.2 million before discounts. The plane features stunning composite wings, the longest Boeing has ever built, with a span of 235 feet 5 inches (71.75 meters) when fully extended.
The airline is returning two of these nine leased B737 from January and the rest seven will be exited the fleet between 2022-23 as they are on long term lease, a Vistara spokesperson told PTI.
European aviation watchdog EASA has said it is likely to conduct flight tests of Boeing 737 MAX planes later this month, amid many airlines awaiting regulatory approvals to restart operations of these aircraft.
The Ukraine International Airlines Boeing 737-800 plane that crashed after takeoff from Tehran on Wednesday, killing all 176 people on board, sought no radio help in its final moments and was making a return after takeoff, an early investigation into the crash has revealed. Here's the latest from the Boeing 737-800 crash investigation.
A Ukrainian plane Boeing 737 with 176 onboard crashed near Tehran immediately after it took off from Imam Khomeini International airport. No passenger has survived in the incident. Of those who lost their lives in this unfortunate incident, 82 were Iranians and 63 Canadians.
The Ukrainian Boeing 737 carried 167 passengers and 9 crew members from different nations on its flight to the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv. The plane crashed near Tehran airport after it suffered a technical glitch and one of its engines caught fire. The crash killed all on board.
Ukrainian Boeing 737 had took off from Tehran and was en route to Kyiv. The passenger plane was carrying 170 people onboard and crashed due to a technical glitch.
The To70 consultancy said on Wednesday that 257 people died in eight fatal accidents in 2019. That compares to 534 deaths in 13 fatal accidents in 2018.
The domestic traffic data in the April-September period, during which the passenger volume grew a mere 2 per cent, also reflects this estimate, rating agency said in its aviation outlook note.
Boeing ousted CEO Dennis Muilenburg on Monday with no end in sight to the crisis that has engulfed the vaunted American aircraft manufacturer since the crash of two of its 737 Max airliners. The Boeing board had supported Muilenburg for months despite calls for his resignation from lawmakers and relatives of the passengers killed. When it became clear in recent days that federal regulators would not certify the grounded Max to fly again by year’s end as Muilenburg had hoped, the board finally abandoned him.
No-frills carrier SpiceJet on Friday said it has grounded three Boeing 737 freighter aircraft due to a "potential defect". The move follows an advice from Israeli Aerospace Industries (IAI), which had converted these planes into freighters, according to a regulatory filing.
The US Federal Aviation Administration issued a directive early last month requiring continuous inspections on its Boeing 737-600, 700, 700C, 800, 900 and 900 ER aircraft to prevent pickle forks from cracking.
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