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Byline: David Kaminski-Morrow Embraer has emphasised the safety aspects of its automatic take-off system, as it prepares for European and US certification measures. Embraer has emphasised the safety aspects of [...]

Byline: David Kaminski-Morrow US regulators are seeking to revise and simplify the framework for cybersecurity provision on aircraft, in order to harmonise with European certification standards and avoid continually having [...]

Byline: Howard Hardee Boeing is under fire for releasing information about safety incidents still under investigation by the US National Transportation Safety Board, including details the agency describes as inaccurate.* [...]

Byline: Dominic Perry Leonardo has warned that uncertainty around Boeing's plans for 787 production over the remainder of the year could delay its aerostructures business reaching break-even but is struggling [...]

Byline: Ryan Finnerty An operational US Air Force unit has for the first time received one of the new Grey Wolf helicopters, which will replace the Bell UH-1N in supporting [...]

Byline: David Learmount The airline industry's exceptional performance in 2023 illustrates how much safety has improved over recent decades - but the new year's opening week delivered a stark wake-up [...]

Byline: Greg Waldron A senior Boeing official contends that a true safety culture relies on employees feeling comfortable providing feedback to senior management. A senior Boeing official contends that a [...]

Byline: David Kaminski-Morrow Nigerian authorities have suspended the Boeing 737 operations of Max Air over safety concerns with the carrier. The Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority says the suspension takes 'immediate [...]

Byline: David Kaminski-Morrow Ukrainian carrier SkyUp Airlines has obtained the third-country approval required to open services to the UK. The airline, which has been using a fleet of Boeing 737-700s [...]

Byline: David Kaminski-Morrow Nigeria's civil aviation regulator has suspended the operations of Dana Air with immediate effect, citing safety concerns and its financial position. Dana operates a mixed fleet of [...]

Byline: David Kaminski-Morrow Cockpit crew representatives are concerned that the forced Ryanair Boeing 737-800 diversion to Minsk has the potential to overturn the foundations on which responses to interception and [...]

Byline: David Kaminski-Morrow European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen has described as 'utterly unacceptable' an incident in which a Ryanair flight was forced to land in Minsk, apparently to [...]

Byline: Dan Thisdell To economically add a third dimension to local transport requires new technology - and a focus on creating 'aviation grade' hardware. Visions of a new generation of [...]

Byline: safetydavid kaminski-morrow london An Air Mandalay Embraer ERJ-145 conducted several flights despite having suffered structural damage during a hard landing at the western coastal city of Sittwe, according to [...]

Byline: directiveDavid Kaminski-Morrow london Europe's air transport safety authority has ordered emergency inspections of horizontal stabilisers on the Sukhoi Superjet 100, to check for cracks in the rear spar. The [...]

Byline: Michael GerzanicsSÃo josà dos Campos Head-up displays and enhanced vision systems have proved their worth on military and large civil aircraft - but how good is Embraer's solution for [...]

regulation david kaminski-morrow london authorities in Estonia have grounded regional operator and air taxi firm Avies over safety concerns. The carrier has a small fleet which includes four British Aerospace [...]

safety The need for aural warnings There have been several airline incidents and accidents involving professional pilots not realising, for whatever reason, that a parameter such as speed is dangerously [...]

safety david kaminski-morrow london Rise in overruns concerned Russian authorities before fatal Tu-204 crash Russian air safety authorities had expressed concern over an increase in runway excursions three weeks before [...]

To avoid the prospect of losing a high-value commercial payload on a risky maiden flight, Vega's first mission - VV01 - will carry a basket of scientific spacecraft, including nine [...]

SAFETY DAVID LEARMOUNT LONDON There was a sharp rise in the number of airline fatal accidents during 2011 - reaching 37 compared with 26 in 2010 - well above the [...]

Dark times surely lie ahead for global aerospace, as the West succumbs to a recession without visible end. What exactly can we expect 2012 to bring? In a package spanning [...]

Byline: training DAVID LEARMOUNT LONDON Industry will now use stakeholder workshops to identify reform proposals within 60 days Ab initio pilot training in the USA is still based on Second [...]

David's towering Concorde debut Budgie's resident former RAF bus driver and harbinger of doom David Learmount had a chance to make his own gory headlines when he flew Concorde under [...]

COVER STORY DAVID KAMINSKI-MORROW TOULOUSE Parts of crashed AF447 finally found 672-day search ends with the discovery of some of Air France A330-200's remains on mid-Atlantic abyssal plain Few clues [...]

Byline: STEPHEN TRIMBLE SÃO JOSÃ DOS CAMPOS A movie celebrating Brazilian military kit may have flopped, but Embraer Defence Systems takes the national mission seriously A Brazilian Aermacchi/Embraer A-1 leads [...]

safety john croft washington dc NTSB seeks clear split on ATC duties Series of incidents prompts regulator to press for decoupling of supervisory and operational air traffic controller tasks US [...]

Byline: FRANCES FIORINO MIDDLE RIVER Efforts by Maryland state police to bolster helicopter safety in air medical transport services serve as an instructive case study The MSPAC's 50 pilots and [...]

INVESTIGATION DAVID KAMINSKI-MORROW loNDon Lack of awareness of strong tailwinds resulted in a Fokker 50 crew attempting a late, steep descent into Groningen airport which resulted in the turboprop overrunning [...]

regulation David kaminski-morrow & DAVID LEARMOUNT london Pilots accused of 'scaremongering' Airlines are accusing pilots' unions of scaremongering over new flight-time limitation proposals drawn up by the European Aviation Safety [...]

The UK and Irish aviation authorities, with airspace closer to Iceland's volcanic activity than anywhere else in Europe, have doubled the allowable concentration of atmospheric volcanic ash in which it [...]

Airbus plans to begin testing an airport ground manoeuvring map display on its A340 development aircraft later this year. The display may become standard in the A380. The navigation system, [...]

Operators of more than 1,000 Boeing 757-200/300s have begun checking stabiliser ballscrew actuator assemblies for grease contamination which couldin extreme cases cause pitch-trim runaway. Boeing, which was expected to release [...]

Concorde delay UK and French certificating authorities for the Aerospatiale/ British Aerospace Concorde have said that they need more time to study safety modifications to the aircraft after they were [...]

Recent correspondence about the safety of foreign aircraft operating into the UK seems to have widened into more general comments about the UK Civil Aviation Authority's international role (Letters, Flight [...]

The Transportation Safety Board of Canada (TSBC) is devising tests to find out whether cockpit ceiling wiring from the crashed Swissair Boeing MD-11 suffered from electrical arcing before or after [...]