Month Archives: January 2025

[ad_1] United Airlines has agreed to purchase 18 Embraer 175 regional jets from partner Mesa Airlines in a sale-leaseback deal that will raise some $230 million for the regional carrier.  Phoenix-based Mesa disclosed the deal in a 7 January filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission, adding that $142 million of sale proceeds will be allocated to paying off the carrier’s debt.  Mesa says that part of the deal, involving the sale of eight E175s, closed on 31 December. The remaining 10 regional …

[ad_1] Japanese investigators have disclosed that a De Havilland Dash 8-300’s departure from Tokyo Haneda was supposed to be threaded between two arriving aircraft, before it entered the runway and was fatally struck by the first of them, a Japan Airlines Airbus A350-900. The collision left only one survivor, the captain, from the six occupants of the Dash 8, but all 379 on board the A350 escaped with just five sustaining injuries. Japanese investigation authority JTSB has yet to reach final conclusions on …

[ad_1] White lighting on a De Havilland Dash 8 would have blended in with surrounding runway lights, rendering it difficult to see before the aircraft was struck by a landing Airbus A350 at Tokyo Haneda a year ago. Japanese investigators probing the fatal 2 January 2024 collision have conducted simulations of the A350 pilots’ cockpit view of runway 34R, pointing out that the Dash 8 was aligned with the centreline about 150m beyond the A350’s aiming point. The simulations, carried out in April …

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[ad_1] Middle Eastern carrier Emirates is to place Airbus A350s to the Gulf states of Bahrain and Kuwait, meaning it will serve one of the airline’s shortest routes. It will operate both services from Dubai beginning on 8 January. The Dubai-Bahrain sector is just 260nm and has a flight time of 1h 20min, while the distance from Dubai to Kuwait is about 460nm with a flight time of 1h 50min. Emirates says it will use the A350-900 on two of its daily Bahrain flights, …

[ad_1] Azerbaijan’s presidential office has given the clearest indication yet that the Embraer 190 which crashed in Aktau suffered considerable flight-control damage as a result of an external detonation in Russian airspace. The office has detailed a telephone call between Russian president Vladimir Putin and Azerbaijani president Ilham Aliyev on 28 December during which, it states, Putin “expressed his apologies” over the “tragic incident”. Aliyev told Putin that the Azerbaijan Airlines aircraft suffered a “complete loss of control” as a result of “external …