It was on the 17th July 2014 that Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 crashed in the war-torn Donetsk region of Eastern Ukraine killing all 298 passengers and crew on board. On the 13th October the Dutch Safety Board released its final report in which it concluded the aircraft had been struck by a BUK surface-to-air (SAM) […]
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Avio-Diepen continues to provide solutions to optimize the supply chain in aerospace industry and now offers a new services in finding real-time pricing and inventory levels information for aircraft parts through PartsBase. “Quick response times and reliable information are critical for aircraft parts buyers.” says Ben Nieuwland, Corporate Marketing Manager at Avio-Diepen. “This new real-time
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ExxonMobil Mobil Jet Oil 387, a synthetic High Performance Capability (HPC)* turbine engine oil, is now fully approved for use in a range of GE Aviation’s GE90 engines including the GE 90-76B, GE 90-85B, GE 90-90B, GE 90-94B, GE 90-110B1 and GE 90-115B. First introduced by GE Aviation in 1995 for use on the Boeing
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American Airlines has written off over US$½billion trapped in Venezuela as a result of insurmountable currency controls. They have confirmed that the airline will include a USD$592 million special charge for the last quarter 2015 “due to continued lack of repatriations and deterioration of economic conditions in Venezuela.” Concerns over the amount of money trapped
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EDM, a leading global provider of training simulators to the civil aviation and defence sectors, has shipped a second Cabin Emergency Evacuation Trainer (CEET) to Ethiopian Airlines. Manufactured at EDM’s UK headquarters in Manchester, the CEET has a dual B787/B777 configuration allowing Ethiopian Airlines’ cabin crew to train on both aircraft types. Consisting of business
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A report by the Transportation Department’s Office of the Director General has revealed that the FAA is failing to ensure that airline pilots maintain a sufficient level of flying skills enabling them to take control of an aircraft from an automated system in an unexpected event. The report also concluded that the FAA is unable
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TAG Farnborough Airport, the UK’s only dedicated business aviation airport, has invested an additional £1m to create more space for passengers and crew at its terminal building in order to meet growing demand. In 2015, air traffic movement (ATM) growth was 2%. This includes a 6% increase in the number of airliner-derived (50-80 tons maximum
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AerData, the provider of lease management, records management and engine fleet planning software, reported that Standard Chartered Aviation Finance, a division of Standard Chartered, has chosen AerData’s STREAM Records Management System to support their fleet of over 100 aircraft. STREAM (Secure Technical Records for Electronic Asset Management) is the industry’s foremost web-based solution used by
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Following the crash of a West Atlantic Bombardier CRJ200 in Sweden late at night on January 7th , Swedish accident investigators have confirmed that though extensively damaged, both the flight data recorder (FDR) and the cockpit voice recorder (CVR) together with it memory functions, have now all been recovered from the crash site. Flight PT294
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Icelandair has selected STG Aerospace’s next generation saf-Tglo SuperSeal UltraLite (SSUL) photoluminescent floorpath lighting for its 767 aircraft, becoming the first 767 operator for this newly certified system. A long-standing customer of STG Aerospace, Icelandair is already in the process of upgrading its 757 fleet from saf-Tglo SuperSeal Lite (SSL) to the new SSUL version. Highly
