Year Archives: 2024

[ad_1] The Jeju Air 737-800 that crashed at South Korea’s Muan airport on the morning of 29 December attempted to land without its landing gear deployed. Footage on social media shows the aircraft (HL8088) flying down the airport’s runway 19 at highspeed, landing gear up, as its tail scrapes the runway surface. Finally, the engines and fuselage set down and the jet veers off the runway, bursting into flames. The video also indicates that the wing was “clean”, whereas in a typical landing the …

[ad_1] The death toll in the fatal crash of a Jeju Air Boeing 737-800 at South Korea’s Muan airport has risen to 122 out of the 181 aboard the jet. According to South Korea’s official Yonhap news agency, firefighting sources say that only two of the 181 aboard the aircraft (HL8088) are likely to have survived. Footage on social media shows the aircraft flying down runway 19 at Muan without its landing gear lowered. The aircraft’s spoilers and flaps also appear to not have …

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[ad_1] Smoke in the cockpit and cabin of a Swiss-operated Airbus A220-300 during a 23 December flight forced the crew to make an emergency landing in Graz, Austria.  In a post on social media platform X, the Lufthansa Group carrier confirmed “an incident” involving flight LX1885 – which was carrying 74 passengers and five crew members from Bucharest to Zurich. ”The cockpit crew decided to make an unscheduled landing in Graz,” the carrier says. ”The aircraft is currently on the runway, the passengers have …

[ad_1] American Airlines’ operations were disrupted by a nationwide ground stop on the morning of 24 December, amid the height of the winter holiday air travel period.  The Fort Worth-headquartered carrier confirmed via social media that it had “resolved a vendor technology issue that briefly affected flights this morning”.  “We sincerely apologise to our customers for the inconvenience and have issued a travel alert to allow for additional flexibility,” American says.  Fight-tracking platform FlightAware shows that nearly 40% of American’s 24 December flights have been …

[ad_1] Azerbaijan Airlines has confirmed that 67 occupants were on board an Embraer 190 which crashed while operating a service to Grozny. It adds that there are a number of survivors from the accident which occurred about 3km from Aktau in Kazakhstan. Video images circulating on social media purportedly show the aircraft in a steep descent, and a right bank, before it strikes the ground in a nose-down attitude, rolling inverted and breaking up. The carrier says the twinjet was conducting the J28423 service …

[ad_1] Turkish low-cost carrier Pegasus Airlines has placed a firm order for 100 Boeing 737 Max 10s, with options for up to a further 100 of the type.  Guliz Ozturk, chief executive of Pegasus, said on 19 December that the Istanbul-based carrier will consider converting the remaining 100 options ”in the coming years, based on market conditions and the needs of our fleet”.  The companies do not specify when deliveries will begin, as Boeing has yet to secure certification of the Max 10 …

[ad_1] Lufthansa Group has disclosed that it is purchasing another five Airbus A350-1000s, taking its overall commitment to 15 of the variant. The aircraft will be delivered over the course of 2028-30. They will bring overall A350 orders for the German group to 75 – including 60 of the smaller A350-900. “With the state-of-the-art A350 long-haul jets, we are accelerating the largest fleet modernisation in our history,” says chief executive Carsten Spohr. “We are investing more than ever before in our history to make air …

[ad_1] Air Canada has signed for five additional Airbus A220-300s on top of an already-sizeable order of incoming single-aisle jets.  Airbus confirmed on 20 December the Montreal-based carrier’s latest A220 order, placed on the five-year anniversary of Air Canada taking delivery of its first of the type in December 2019. It became the North American launch operator of the A220 early in 2020.  Air Canada initially ordered 45 A220s in 2016, followed by an additional 15 jets in October 2022.  Including its latest five-unit order, …

[ad_1] Air Canada is set to become the latest North American airline to offer free wi-fi access to passengers, disclosing on 12 December plans to begin rolling out the service in May. Montreal-based Air Canada says the service will initially be available on aircraft flying within North America and on routes from Canada to warm-weather destinations, which include those in the Caribbean and Mexico. Free in-flight wi-fi is becoming more common in North America and is now offered by US carriers Delta Air …

[ad_1] Air Tanzania has been formally blacklisted by the European Commission, following safety concerns identified at the flag-carrier. The European Union Aviation Safety Agency has also denied third-country operator authorisation to the airline, a prerequisite for conducting services to European destinations. “We strongly urge Air Tanzania to take swift and decisive action to address these safety issues,” says sustainable transport commissioner Apostolos Tzitzikkostas, adding that the Commission is offering assistance to Tanzanian authorities. Air Tanzania has a mixed fleet of modern aircraft types including …

[ad_1] Canada’s Transat AT, parent of Air Transat, reports a profitable fiscal fourth quarter boosted by a C$37 million ($26 million) compensation agreement with geared turbofan (GTF) engine maker Pratt & Whitney.  The Montreal-based company said on 12 December that it recorded a C$41 million fiscal fourth-quarter profit, compared with an C$89 million profit during the period ending 31 October of last year.  Revenue for the period was up about 3%, year on year, to C$789 million.  Chief executive Annick Guerard attributes the results to …